The photo you just took
is already on its way.
Tether a Canon to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, or shoot on the iPhone or iPad itself. Every frame uploads, gets your branding, and reaches the guest’s phone in seconds.
Tuesday, March 24
7:42
The iPad and phone screens are rebuilt in HTML from the app. Everything on the iPad is one session — S-03C54288: 8 photos, one guest, and their delivery. The photos are that guest’s real frames from AGC Annual Convention (Autodesk, 2,047 photos); the guest’s number is a sample.
From your shutter to their phone
This is the whole delivery workflow. There is no step two you do later.
Bring the camera you trust
Tethered Canon gets full live view and remote shutter from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Sony, Nikon, and Fuji tethering is on the roadmap; until then they feed the event through Watch Folder. And when the second shooter is an intern with an iPad — that works too. It all lands in one event gallery.
- Canon: live view + remote shutter, fully tethered
- Sony, Nikon, Fuji: on the roadmap. Watch Folder works today
- iPhone and iPad shoot with their own cameras — no extra hardware
- Multiple shooters, one gallery, zero merging folders
Event Wi-Fi drops. You don’t stop shooting.
Every capture is saved on your device first, then uploaded. When the venue network dies mid-reception, photos queue quietly and you keep working. The moment the connection returns, everything uploads, brands, and delivers — in order, nothing lost.
- Photos persist on-device before upload — a dead network can’t eat a frame
- Uploads and guest texts resume automatically on reconnect
- We rehearse it on a full rig by pulling the venue router’s internet line
Guests get texted like people, not like a mailing list
Shoot someone forty times and they don’t get forty texts. The first photo triggers a fast “your photos are ready” message; everything after that batches into a digest on a schedule you set. One link, growing all night.
- First match sends fast — the wow moment happens at the event
- Later photos batch into digests, so nobody gets spammed
- You control timing, batching, and per-guest caps from the portal
- Pause and resume delivery mid-event if the program demands it
Everything you need to capture and deliver
Your camera, every device
Tether a Canon for full live view and remote control, grab an iPhone, or hand an iPad to a second shooter. Everything feeds one gallery.
Face Match delivery
Turn on Face Match and every photo finds everyone in it — even people you never tagged. Shoot the whole room; the room gets its photos.
Sessions for group shots
Tag several guests into one session and everyone in the group shot gets the group shot — including the frames where their face isn’t visible.
Watch Folder for your editing rig
Prefer to cull in Capture One or Lightroom first? Export to a Watch Folder and the same pipeline takes it from there.
Watch it all land from the portal
Every shooter, every upload, every delivery in one view. You always know what’s been captured and who has their photos.
Your originals, untouched
The pristine, un-branded original of every frame is preserved at full resolution. Guests get the branded version; you keep the negatives.
Help Articles
Common questions
What cameras work with live capture and how are they connected?
iPhone and iPad shoot with the BrandStudio app. A Canon tethers over USB to an iPhone, iPad, or Mac with live view and remote shutter. Sony, Nikon, and Fuji tethering is on the roadmap; today they work through Watch Folder. Every path lands photos in the same gallery, typically in seconds on event Wi-Fi.
How fast does a photo go from shutter click to a guest's phone?
Usually 3–10 seconds for branded overlay, upload, and SMS. Tethered setups are fastest because the photo arrives on our processor before the photographer has put the camera down. On slow venue wifi, it can stretch to 15–30 seconds — Confidence Sync queues photos and catches up if the network drops.
Does the photographer need to assign photos to guests during capture?
Not if Face Match is on — photos route to guests automatically after capture. If Sessions are on, the photographer taps the guest name once at the start of a session and every photo until they switch is tagged. For pure walk-up shoots with no sessions, Face Match handles routing on its own.
What gear do I actually need for tethered photo capture?
A Canon body with a USB-C port, a USB-C cable, an iPad (or Mac) running BrandStudio, and a stand if the camera is stationary. For booth setups add continuous LED lighting. The Event Photography Equipment Checklist playbook on the site walks through our exact recommended kit.
Pack up and leave.
The photos beat you home.
Connect your camera, start shooting, and delivery happens while you work. No editing marathon tonight.