25 group photo ideas with friends (road trips, parties and everyday)

Great group photos look like a moment, not a line-up. Put your friends in places that mean something (the car, the rooftop, the dinner table), keep everyone close enough to touch, and shoot at 1x from a few steps back so nobody at the edges gets stretched. Here are 25 ideas.

Road trips

1. Sitting on the car hood at sunset.

2. Heads out of the windows.

3. The petrol station snack haul.

4. Standing on the roadside, the road leading into the distance.

Outdoors

5. Lying in a circle, heads together, shot from above.

6. Jumping off a dock together. Burst mode.

7. Walking down a road in a line, from behind.

8. On a hilltop, small figures, big view. The Travel Shot guide frames it.

9. The beach run into the sea.

Food and drinks

10. The dinner table from the end. The table edges lead to the group.

11. Cheers, glasses meeting in the middle.

12. Hands reaching for pizza, top-down.

13. Rooftop drinks at sunset.

Parties and nights out

14. The photo booth strip.

15. Getting ready in the mirror.

16. Dancing in the kitchen.

17. The blurry flash photo, on purpose.

Everyday

18. Squeezed onto one sofa.

19. Walking to class or work, arm in arm.

20. The coffee run.

21. Movie night under blankets.

Creative

22. Matching outfits or colours.

23. Everyone in a doorway or window frame.

24. Shadows on the ground, shot from above.

25. Recreate an old group photo.

Fitting everyone in

• Step back and use 1x instead of 0.5x, which stretches people at the edges.
• Stagger heights: some sitting, some standing, some kneeling.
• Make a triangle. The Triangle 1 guide shows the shape for three people; scale it up for more.
• Everyone touching. Arms around shoulders, leaning in.
• Timer and tripod so you are in it too.

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