The photograher, but not necessarily the camera, loves you.
About 400lbs and casters. Ba-dum!
Photo-booths are machines, proper event photographers are people-people.
A photo-booth will mechanically take a photo even if you just reach in and push the button with a damp stick. It doesn’t know, it doesn’t care. At the end of the event it just rolls away with a wad of your money and without a backward glance. It gave no thought to your event’s dreams and your vision beforehand, and it gives none afterwards. For all the machine knows it might be rolling away from a PR disaster.
A real event photographer adds so much more than just the mechanics of snapping and printing, snapping and printing. It takes a person like you to add professionalism and experience to the event, to add the fun, to add the value in the laughter, the play, the participa … tion. It takes a real live person to represent you properly.
Option One: Squash several seriously top-shelf celeb event guests into a passport photo-booth and tell them to read the instructions and to get on with it while the queue watches the outside of the booth for fun and for kicks (and because with a booth there’s naff all else to do except to queue).
Option Two: Employ a proper event photographer, maybe one who can set up a familiar, comfortable and cosy-looking human guest-friendly mini mobile studio environment, and who can laugh, chat, demonstrate and react to, spark off and whip an experience up for your top-shelf guests. Someone who can provide a spectacle and some action for everyone to watch, not just roll in an over-sized toaster, plug it in and then leave. You know – someone to do odd, peculiar, professional things like actually talk to people.
Maybe tell them the 7 things they need to hear:
- Does it feel more natural if you stand or sit like this?
- Believe me – the “Walk like an Egyptian” pose is legal here.
- Let me show you – if I look daft first then you won’t worry!
- I promise you – not a single goofy image will ever get loose from me unless you approve it first and want it to.
- Come with me and have a look at that before we print it for you.
- Absolutely, yes, let’s try that again until you’re happy with it.
- Wow! That is amazing – hold that pose, do that again, oh yes Who loves you baby?
- Oy vey, Moshe; fetch me the soft-focus lens and a lion-tamer’s whip and chair for this one – even the camera’s getting nervous and stepping backwards.
Alright, so I can’t count and number 8 is only ever used where the guest would never, ever take offence, but which do you think is likely to add more value to your client’s event? Sitting in a box similar to the ones dusty Post Offices have for passport photos, or gliding, stumbling, hop, skipping and jumping into the bespoke, themed, entirely novel, human-managed, humane lair of a proper event photographer? Can a photobooth know to take all the shots they want of your star celebrity guest? Can a photobooth coax and encourage someone who doesn’t usually like cameras? Can a photobooth really represent you?
It takes a real live event photographer to create memories for your guests from, for example, their happy days in Rangoon during ’43 or ’44 … Fun they never knew that they had.
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