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School Balls
Make your school ball unforgettable with professional photography, themed backdrops, and stylish setups that bring your event to life. From the moment students arrive, we create a red-carpet experience that feels just as glamorous as it looks in photos.
We're quite the roamers when it comes to school balls since we get to go around and immerse into the party with the students whilst taking cool photos of them. If need be though, we can definitely step-up and do the stationary backdrop photos as well if you require so.
Every school runs their ball a little differently! Our goal is to make the photography seamless and fun for everyone. Here’s how we can work together:
Roaming Pics
Our roaming photographers will go around capturing all the candid, in-the-moment magic throughout the night, perfect for the dance floor, tables, and mingling.
For an attendance of 200 students per se, it's best to book in a second roaming photographer. A solo photographer can't physically be everywhere at once; in which a crowd that size would definitely find themselves spread across the venue. A second photographer would give more reassurance that the possibility of covering certain moments can be done simultaneously when they occur in different areas.
Add a professional photo station for formal portraits. If your ball has a theme, we’ll bring props or styling pieces to match. We set up lights, computers, and everything else a few hours before the event begins.
Theme Ideas for Backdrop Station
🎭Broadway Experience
Students step into the night with a true red-carpet welcome.
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A grand doorway framed with glowing Broadway-style light bulbs.
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A red carpet leading into the reception area, with optional velvet ropes to guide arrivals.
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A “Signing Wall” where each student signs a custom banner featuring the school’s logo and founding year. They’ll get a professional “over the shoulder” photo as they sign. The banner can later be photographed for use in a yearbook background or displayed at school.
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A gold curtain backdrop sized for both group and solo portraits.
🏛️ Ancient Roman Elegance
Bring timeless luxury to your ball with a Roman-inspired setup.
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Cream-coloured Roman-style flower pots filled with fresh flowers at the entrance.
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A fairy-light garland archway with statues placed throughout for atmosphere.
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A backdrop printed with the lounge of a Roman villa, styled with a leather sofa for creative seated and standing poses.
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Extra touches like a decorative vase with palm leaves for depth and texture.
Themes can be tailored to suit your venue and concept. These ideas are here to help assist you in your brainstorming and decision making process, hope it helps!
Photo Delivery
Photos are uploaded onto a secure Pixieset digital gallery where students can log into the Guest Entry view mode using the gallery link + the corresponding entry password that are meant for them.
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Gallery sendout – The school can share the gallery to their students so they can get downloading as many times as they want within the handful of months after the day of the event.
Downloadable in single file or in bulk or as a compressed ZIP folder, all non-watermarked. No need to do tedious things like pay per photo afterwards.
They can either download high-resolution images or web-sized photos (2048px).
Web-sized ones tends to take up less storage space on their devices as filesizes are much smaller than "Original" This option should only be chosen when devices are on the slim edge of overheating from overload of storage memory. Either option they decide to go with, students can download a mix of them if they wanted to.
As the event organiser, you will get a "Client Exclusive" entryway password to log onto the same gallery link as the Guests, and begin "hiding" exactly which photos you don't want as representations of your school image/values.
Each photographer delivers approximately 100–200 professionally edited photos per hour.
This number fluctuates depending on the flow of your event, the activities on-site, guest interactions such as: proactive dancing in front of camera, or who is okay with photos and who is not. If the quantity given to you goes over the maximum stated number, the rest of the photos will be on the house, at
no extra charge.
Pricing and Packages
Packages below are based on an attendance of 200 students for a 3 hour photo session.
The price includes unlimited high-resolution downloads of every photo taken on the night, plus full setup, backdrop design, and decoration.
If you want to go ultra fancy with the backdrop setup the quote will vary more or less depending on your needs, can tell us more about your vision via email at maydreamphotography@gmail.com
Package 1 – From $2,000
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One backdrop photographer
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One roaming photographer
Package 2 – From $2,800
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Two roaming photographers
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One videographer (60-90 sec highlight reel included)
Package 3 – From $4000
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Everything in Package 2 plus:
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Photobooth with unlimited instant prints and immediate uploads to Facebook for tagging and sharing
Package 3 – From $6000
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Two backdrop photographers
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One roaming photographer
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One videographer (60-90 sec highlight reel included)
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Photobooth with props, unlimited prints, and instant uploads
Pakuranga College Ball- Casino Royale
University of Auckland x Unitec Architecture Ball
"Simple Photog, Simple Life"
This is for those schools/event organisers who don't care that there are missed moments, due to the assigned photographer not being able to physically be in two places at the very same time.
This is only suitable for an attendance of approximately 40 - 90 students.
No hidden costs or additional "call-out fees", nor are there any extra editing fees required to be paid afterwards either. Just a direct, simple easy process
One thing our previous clients do kindly do for us though, is that they cover the hotel/venue parking. We appreciate it a lot!
It is either done onsite once we've parked up on the day, or reimbursed to us 1-2 days after the photo session had ended.
In which we email the photo of the parking receipt to you for your reference. Therefore, if you could do that as well, that would be amazing ~
Photo credit to: @tiger_hood_media
Rates
2 hours coverage – $580
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One roaming photographer (that will do the few occasional backdrop photos)
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If kept there by groups and lines of eager students who want backdrop photos, we will transition into becoming the "Backdrop Photographer" and focus way more on that.
3 hours coverage – $840
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One roaming photographer that just keeps photographing for the three hours that they are there for, and deliver within 1-2 weeks all the good photos that they can possibly cull out and edit, to give to you.
