Why 10 shots beat 300
The constraint of film applied to the phone: fewer photos, many more good ones.
Back in the days of film, a roll meant 24 or 36 shots. Not one more. As a result, people thought before pressing the button. This constraint, which looks like a limit, is actually the secret of great photos.
Quantity kills attention
When you can take 300 photos, you don’t really get any of them right: you fire away, you stop looking at the scene, you tell yourself you’ll sort them “later”. Nobody ever sorts them. You end up with 300 blurry pictures and not a single chosen memory.
Scarcity creates intention
Give someone 10 shots, and everything changes. They wait for the right moment. They frame. They watch the table, the laughter, the light, then they press. Every photo becomes a decision, not a reflex. And those are the photos you end up framing.
“With only 10 photos each, our guests took it seriously. We have never had such beautiful pictures.” Camille & Tom · May 2026
The right number
From experience, between 5 and 15 shots per guest is ideal: enough to cover the day, few enough for every shot to count. Always keep two or three for the end of the night (our tips for getting good dance-floor photos). That is exactly what the Time to Flash wedding photo app lets you do: you set the number of photos per person, and the constraint does the rest.
