13 Cool 28th Birthday Photoshoot Ideas For Your Feed (2025)

Welcome in your late 20s with an unforgettable photoshoot to commemorate the last 27 years and then many more years to come! Here are 13 cool 28th birthday photoshoot ideas to make sure you start your 28th year with the best photos your feed and your followers have seen from you yet.

Be sure to book a Peerspace for your photoshoot (and heck, why not for your one-of-a-kind birthday party venue while you’re at it!) We have gorgeous venues available to rent by the hour in cities and towns across the globe. You’ll see a few examples of amazingly stylish and amenity-packed Peerspaces ahead along with our 28th birthday photoshoot ideas. Let’s get started!

1. Start with a classic, stylish birthday shot

If you are looking for something classy, simple and elegant for your 28th birthday photoshoot — this photo will be perfect for your Insta feed. Set up your Peerspace venue with an adorable large wicker chair at the head of the table, a “28” shaped balloon in the background, and when the lights are dimmed, your cake is alight and you are sat at the head of the table (like the queen or king you are!) — shoot your shot!

As you lean down to blow out your candles, the flicker of the candlelight will perfectly glow in your face and the “28” balloon will make for a stylish backdrop! Happy 28th!

2. Celebrate the 28 sides of you

You are more than meets the eye. Express all sides of your personality with a photoshoot including 28 different looks! Peerspace offers venues that offer not just one or two sets to choose from but often a half dozen or more for you to express yourself in. For example, check out this studio in Houston, TX that includes 20+ custom sets for your use!

3. Gather 28 of your favorite people

Not sure the perfect number of guests to invite to your 28th birthday bash? 28 of course! Invite your 28 closest friends and make sure to snap a pic with each one of them during the party. Then, to celebrate the moment with your Insta followers, make a collage featuring your pics with friends and include a shout-out to your 28 favorite people on your 28th big day!

Make the most of this suggestion by using our 28th birthday party ideas to celebrate with your guests in pure style!

4. Save up for the big 3-0 and spring for portraits now

If you are saving the all-out birthday bash for your 30th, make 28 special by treating yourself to a professional portrait photoshoot this year instead of a big blowout party. 28 is a perfect age to get professional portraits done. Why? Because you’re looking great, feeling great, and really feeling like you are getting a hang out this whole ‘adulting’ thing by now.

You can use some of your photos for your professional life as well as your personal. Consider a well-deserved LinkedIn and Insta glow-up for your followers to be envious of!

For ideas on portrait ideas and portrait photographers in your area for your shoot, check out the Peerspace photography resource page! 

5. What’s my age, again?

Excuse me — 28th birthday?! It’s actually just the 7th anniversary of your 21st birthday! If you loved your 21st, recreate it this year with a 7th-year anniversary shoot! Take all your same favorite people, to all your same favorite spots, and take some amazing recreate photos. This 28th birthday photoshoot idea isn’t just going to be a hit with all your friends — it’ll be a viral sensation with all your followers too!

6. It’s never too early for a mid-life crisis

Looking for funny 28th birthday photoshoot ideas? Then it’s time to start thinking about your midlife crisis! Bring the cats, your best floral patterned shirt, and your big reading glasses — it’s time to get this party started! A mid-life crisis shoot is sure to make all your followers laugh. Yet, it’s also a great way to lighten the mood and show that you don’t take yourself so seriously that you can’t have a little fun!

7. Share your 28 best memories with a photo collage

Show all your followers what 28 is all about! Share a collage of your 27 best photos from the year and then for photo 28 … reveal a photo from your 28th birthday photoshoot! It can be a fun photo you took with friends, a selfie from your big day, or a professional photo you had taken as a birthday present to yourself. Here’s to hoping that 28 brings as many amazing photos the rest of the year as it brought to the table on day 1!

8. Celebrate turning twenty ATE with a dinner party shoot

Celebrate turning twenty “ate” with a knock-out dinner party and photoshoot! Roll out the red carpet for when your guests arrive, hire a chef, and have your “paparazzi” take photos as you enjoy a night eating and relaxing with your friends.

And the best part? With Peerspace, this type of party can be stress-free and within your budget! One beautiful example is this fully draped midtown lounge and dinner party venue in Atlanta, GA. It’s spacious, elegant, and airy, perfect for a modern dinner party with your favorite people.

Not in Atlanta? No worries! Search for the perfect dinner party venue in your area and then work with your venue’s host to find a photographer and chef near you! Let Peerspace do all the hard work for you so you can sit back, relax, and enjoy your 28th!

9. Plan a sweet party prep photoshoot

Your photoshoot doesn’t have to be at your party. How about having a 28th birthday photoshoot as a gift to yourself before your birthday bash, with photos to include on the party invites? This is a fun way to share your photos beyond your feed. Plus, who doesn’t love getting an invitation for the party of the year in the mail?!

10. Celebrate the 90s with a back-in-the-day photoshoot

We’ve entered the 2020s … but you are still a 90s kid at heart! Celebrate your big day with a 90s throwback shoot. Peerspace has tons of fun old-school venues that will bring all your 90s-themed 28th birthday photoshoot ideas to life. One of our favorite options is this 90s-themed bedroom set in Tempe, AZ. Check it out and imagine the possibilities!

Love this idea? Here are some 90s photoshoot ideas with venue options to get you started!

11. Grab your loved ones and crack the champagne

Ready for some live-action magic? Capture the moment of you cracking the champagne on your big day! This photoshoot idea would make for a great Insta photo series for your feed and is such a classy and fun way to show you celebrating your 28th. 

12. Consider a bold and beautiful boudoir shoot

Look and feel your best this birthday with an intimate, bold, and beautiful boudoir shoot! Boudoir photography can be a really empowering way to ring in your 28th birthday — and is tons of fun, too! Want to learn more about what a boudoir shoot entails? First, read our boudoir explainer article here to decide if this type of shoot is right for you. If you decide to go for it, come on back here to Peerspace and book an amazing boudoir photoshoot location near you.

13. Think about the 28 best things about turning 28

What are you most excited about changing when you turn 28? Are there things you are most happy with staying the same? What hopes and dreams do you have for the year? Take the answers to these questions and make them into a photoshoot about the 28 best things about turning 28! Each of the 28 things can be a small prop brought together for one photo — or 28 different photos, each focusing on one of the 28 things specifically!

28th birthday photoshoot ideas: conclusion

We hope these 28th birthday photoshoot ideas have you looking forward to welcoming this new year with style and grace. And remember, no matter your preferred aesthetic, budget, or location, you can book the perfect photoshoot location and party venue through Peerspace. Between our amazing spaces and the dedicated locals who host them, you can rest assured your Peerspace experience will be one-of-a-kind.

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