30th Birthday Digital Backdrops

What is in this collection

Summer and destination scenes include a timber pergola wound with lemon branches over a linen dinner table in an Italian lemon grove, a beach club lounge with a rattan sofa at sunset, whitewashed island steps leading to a blue door under pink bougainvillea, and a striped garden marquee on a croquet lawn. Evening scenes include a candlelit stone wine cellar with an oak barrel tasting counter, a red velvet high roller booth with martini glasses, a black and gold balloon garland on a city rooftop and an ivory ostrich feather fan on a gold deco frame. For a calmer look there is a cluster of glowing paper lanterns over a sage linen sofa and a black boho arch with pampas and gold palm fans.

30th birthday photo booth backgrounds by party style

Many 30th parties are dinners, holidays or nights out rather than balloon parties, and the scenes follow that. A long lunch or dinner fits the lemon grove or the wine cellar; a destination trip fits the beach club and the island steps; a night out fits the rooftop, the high roller booth and the feather fan. Used as 30th birthday photo booth backgrounds, the rooftop and the marquee give a whole group room to stand. The island steps, the boho arch and the lantern sofa also suit a pre-party portrait session as 30th birthday photography backgrounds. For more black and gold, see black and gold birthday; for sunny scenes, summer; and for 1920s parties, art deco.

Tips for using these scenes

• Pick by guest list. The croquet lawn marquee fits seven or more; the lemon grove, beach club, wine cellar, lantern sofa, rooftop garland and high roller booth fit four to six; the island steps, the feather fan and the boho arch suit one to three.
• Shoot dinner scenes seated. The lemon grove table, the beach club sofa, the lantern sofa and the high roller booth all take seated guests. Photograph guests on dining chairs rather than stools, so they sit at table height.
• Follow each scene's light. The lemon grove is lit from the left, the beach club from the right at sunset, and the island steps from above in bright sun. The wine cellar is low candlelight, so use a warm, dim key and let the edges fall dark.

Dinner scenes need seated guests at the right height; see the section on groups and seated poses in the Photoshop guide.