Thanksgiving Digital Backdrops

What is in this collection

For the big meal there is a farmhouse feast table laid with pies, bread, white pumpkins and taper candles, and an outdoor Friendsgiving trestle table between russet oaks under warm festoon lights. For seated family portraits there is a harvest fireplace with a magnolia garland and two leather armchairs, and a camel sofa with plaid cushions under a harvest wreath. Outside, you will find a white farmhouse porch with rocking chairs, mums and corn stalks, white barn doors with wheat sheaves and straw bales, and a red wagon in a sunny pumpkin patch. A cornucopia on a wooden bench in a mustard studio suits children, and an overhead dough bowl with autumn leaves is made for newborns.

Thanksgiving family photos and photo booths

Getting everyone together for a photo on the day is hard, and the dining room is rarely tidy. With these Thanksgiving digital backgrounds you can photograph the family against a plain wall, then place them in front of a laid table or a crackling fire. Seated scenes suit grandparents and small children. For a Friendsgiving or a harvest party, the white barn doors and the farmhouse porch make simple Thanksgiving photo booth backgrounds with a clear floor. Every Thanksgiving scene is also part of the wider fall collection, where you will find more autumn parks, orchards and studio sets.

Tips for using these scenes

• Warm up your subjects. Almost every Thanksgiving scene has warm light, from firelight, candles or low sun. Warm your subject's white balance a little and add a soft warm rim on the side the light comes from. The white barn doors are the exception, with neutral morning sun from the right.
• Stand people in front of the table. In both feast scenes the table runs across the back with open floor in front, so seven or more people can stand in rows with the food visible behind them. Put the tallest at the back and the children in front.
• Use the seated scenes for cards. The fireplace armchairs, the plaid sofa, the porch rockers and the cornucopia bench all have room to sit. Landscape works for 4x6 and 5x7 cards; portrait suits a single child on the cornucopia bench.

Printing holiday cards? The free 1280px file is watermarked and meant for trying a scene, so check resolution and print sizes before you order prints from the 4K file.