This is one of those ideas that seems to make great use of the capabilities of digital imaging.

I, too, have always liked photo booths, but my experience has only been with the old Polaroid ones. I love the quality of the bw images they produced. Technically, It was relatively poor (at least from a creative point of view), and yet the shots had such a unique look to them. You instantly knew when you saw one that it was a booth photo.

I also liked that people, by nature, mugged for these pictures, and you were always given a sequence of shots, which to me adds another dimension to the process...

IMO, a small soft box should do the trick for your booth. It would give you even, shadowless lighting (at least no shadows on the subjects), and the space (front to back) that it would have to cover would be relatively small, so I'd imagine the light output would stay in a fairly narrow range.

Let us know how this contraption (and I use that term with the utmost affection!) turns out...

BTW, an easy way to view examples of redcheese's pics is to click on SERVICES, then PORTFOLIO.

Quote Originally Posted by berrywise
Here is the link to more photos from the guys photo booth.

www.redcheese.com You need to pick an event and just type in an email address (any will work) and you can view the galleries. If I could achieve results like he has I would be really pleased. He seems to have really good depth of field, even the people getting right up next to the camera seem to be pretty sharp and not blown out by any means.

The only thing is that his booth is really pretty big and needs to be hauled around on a truck.

-s