I memorialized our family reunion at Emerald Isle Beach in North Carolina this year with the family photo of those who could make it.

Here is the setup I used for the photo:

To fire the Nikon D750, I used the Nikon ML-L3 Wireless Remote Control (Infrared) to trigger the camera. After that, I just had to go into the menu on the camera to set it up for triggering remotely.

Here are those instructions for you:

Here is an older blog post I did on doing these photos on the beach.

Here are some photos from another year at the beach:

While posed family photos are great, I love capturing spontaneous moments even more. So here is that blog post where I talked about doing this.