Bar Mitzvah Digital Backdrops

What is in this collection

The bar mitzvah collection covers the party and the portraits. Party scenes include a full balloon wall in navy, gold, white and slate grey scattered with gold Star of David ornaments, and a ballroom lounge with a long white leather sofa against a curved wall washed in royal blue light, above a black dance floor. For the ceremony and formal portraits there is a long navy velvet candle-lighting table with lit white tapers in silver candlesticks, a brushed silver moongate dressed with blue and white hydrangeas and olive branches, and a calm studio with an ivory linen drape, navy tiebacks and a wooden stool. Outdoors, a golden Jerusalem limestone arch opens onto rolling hills between old olive trees.

Bar mitzvah photo booth backgrounds and portraits

For the party, the navy and gold balloon wall takes a group of four to six friends, and the blue-uplit ballroom lounge works for bigger seated groups at the reception. The candle-lighting table is made for that part of the evening: stand each group of family members behind it in turn. For the milestone portrait, the ivory linen drape studio and the hydrangea moongate are quiet and formal, and the Jerusalem stone terrace gives an outdoor look in warm light. Photographers can use these as bar mitzvah photography backgrounds for portraits before the day, when there is more time. See photo booth backgrounds for strip and print layouts, and Hanukkah digital backdrops for more blue and white scenes.

Tips for using these scenes

• Match cool and warm light. The balloon wall and ballroom lounge have cool, blue-tinted light, while the candle table and the Jerusalem terrace are warm. Shift your subject's white balance to suit, and on the ballroom scene add a faint blue edge light so they sit in the room.
• Scale the guests. The ballroom lounge takes seven or more people, the balloon wall, candle table, moongate and terrace fit four to six, and the linen drape studio suits one to three. Keep everyone's feet on the same floor line.
• Use square and portrait for cards and slideshows. These crops keep the drape, moongate and arch whole for thank-you cards and the montage. Add the name and date in your template, as the scenes contain no text.

For the party booth, digital backdrops for photo booth operators covers using the library with booth software.