Has anyone ever done a cake that they were so proud of and took over 20 pics and none of them turned out??? I am just so sick about it I made this totally awesome CARS cake for great nephews 5 B-Day. And I am praying the picture taken at the party with a camera phone turned out. I really needed a good camera. I had a 35mm that the flash always went off when you took a pic. So I decided to buy some disposable cameras. Took other pics on the same camera they turned out. Only difference was the location and light. Good ones were taken in my kitchen with fluorescent lights. Bad ones in my dark dining area so I use a clip lamp on a shelf. It puts out good light. I thought taking the pics there would be a good idea. Wrong The cake was so cool. It was all buttercream. It was a desert scene took my time to get the sand color just right. The highway was grey and I had lightening and mater (they were little cake toppers) on the highway. Made rocks out of the grey BC and to the sand color BC I added extra powder sugar to it and made it more sturdy for big boulders. I used the grass tip with dark green and added alittle bushes around the boulders and rocks. Any way you kind of get the idea. My teenage son was so impressed he said it looked like a huge professional cake decorater did it. That made me so I was totally proud of this cake. Now kind of like the big fish that got away I only have the memories but no pic to prove it. Has any thing like this happened to you???

I have so many cakes that I have not taken photos of. I am sad but then think of all the creations I do have a photo of!

I am sorry this happened to you! I really wish I could see your cake...it sounds awesome! You could always try to re-do it on a dummy.

Even worse: you have a lot of photos, all saved to your hard drive on your computer with no "hard" copies printed, and your hard drives crashes! Half of my pics (about 100) are lost forever. Yes, I learned my lesson.

If you don't already have one, I highly recommend using a digital camera to take pics of your cakes (and family photos too of course).

You can find them for under $100, and get a decent one for that price too. Even if you spend more, think of the long-term costs.

Disposable cameras are what, still about $10 each? Then you have to pay for developing all of the pictures, that's another $5 or something (I haven't done this in a while so I'm hoping it's a little cheaper now!)

Anyway, one up-front investment in a digital camera and you'll get to take all the pics you want, load them right to the computer and only develop the good ones! I've had good luck with snapfish.com, 4x6's are 19¢ each and larger ones very reasonable as well.

So you can take 50 pictures of one cake in different lighting and only develop the best one. You've already "saved" around $30 in buying and developing the two disposable cameras it woudld have taken to get the perfect picture. And it's instant. You can get your pics up on CC in record time for all of us to see

I think I've seen some digital cameras for around $50 somwehere too. Be sure to do research and get the best one you can afford.

But you do still have to watch out for what cookieman mentioned above.

But if you upload all the good pics to a web developer, they will still have your favorites on file to develop again or download back to your hard drive.

I'm asking for a digital camera for my birthday. I never realized how bad my camera was until I started taking cake pictures. Then, my scanner quit working, so I have no way to upload my more recent pictures. It stinks!

I am a photo freak!! Last cross country season of my daughter I took over 4,000 photos. Cost me a fortune and it was always hit or miss to take the right shot. For Christmas, my kids made me 'digital'. They bought me a digital camera and brought me into the high tech world. Never thought I would like it but now can't live without it. Track season took 8,000 photos and didn't care because no more film cost! Just yesterday took 15 pics at football practice in 5 minutes. Bad ones are deleated and good ones will go to the banquet. GO DIGITAL!!! You won't regret it!

Really watch on the cheaper digital cameras, my husband bought one for about #50 and it was a piece of . He took it back right away and then a few weeks later bought me a Kodak. He had gotten the cheap one planning on giving it to the kids as soon as he bought me a better one but it took at least 30 seconds from the time you pushed the button until it took the picture.
You'll probably have to buy a memory card, most cameras only hold 12 pics without them .
I save my pics to a cd incase the computer crashes, I don't have to pay to develop all of them but I know I won't lose them.

Yup..I would invest in a digital camera.You get a pretty good one for about $100.00-$200.00. I use mine mainly for cake pictures and Ebay.

Oh cookieman,
I feel your pain!!! I did the same thing!!! To make matters worse, the only cake I ever did RI flowers on was one of the pictures!!! It was the most beautiful cake I had ever done!!! Live and learn I guess!!! Now I store all of my pictures on an online storage site.

Thanks to all of you. I know I need a good digital camera. But no money so tryin to save. Cars are givin us grief. So hard times right now. Also don't have much memory on computer. But I am looking at cameras and options for saving the pictures. Sorry to all you others who have had problems with pictures also. But now I know I'm not alone