A photo booth is no longer a dingy little box where one can click instant photographs. Photo booths have evolved into a fun and engaging experience with the addition of colourful and slick props at parties and events. A person can choose appropriate accessories and strike a spontaneous pose.
These pictures are often printed and handed over to the guests as souvenirs or posted on the social media for friends and family to view and comment on.
The photo booth is a fast-growing concept that is catching the attention of the young and old alike. They are ideal to make an event memorable, as the guests can take home a memento and share it on social media with appropriate hashtags.
Photo booths also give the guests an opportunity to have fun with friends, colleagues or family. With a little imagination and creativity, a fun and functional photo booth can be set up with minimal expense.
The Coimbatore Cancer Foundation set up a Polaroid-style photo booth at the recently-concluded expo of the Coimbatore Marathon 2015 to raise awareness on cancer. Visitors used pink props and textboxes with slogans while posing for pictures. They were actively encouraged to share the pictures on social media to create awareness on the fight against cancer.
The hashtags #runforacause and #runwithyourheart helped carry forward these messages on Instagram and Facebook.
The photo booth was an instant success and the official photographers clicked away from morning to evening while the visitors had a great time striking a pose. Even those who were hesitant and shy initially loosened up and came up with innovative poses.
A photo booth with ‘Team Bride’ and ‘Team Groom’ props was setup as part of Vinitha and Aswath’s wedding a few months ago in Tirupur. Friends and family had an entertaining evening posing with the various props and were delighted to take back the pictures as souvenir.
Grannies and grandsons, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, college buddies and school friends took turns to strike goofy posed and made it a fun and unforgettable sangeet .
Vinitha recollects how they made the grannies pose with the sign “I am here for the food” to capture some hilarious pictures that evening. Signs that say His & Her, Mr & Mrs, I am still single, I am here for the food, Congrats and Just married are popular props at weddings.
Shrivyshnavi Annush, founder of www.pookaari.com, used a photo booth during her website’s launch to bring in a fun element for her guests.
Fashion-related props were set up and guests were encouraged to strike a chic pose. She says that it created a memory for the guests and believes that the photo booth helped them achieve effective brand recall.
An ice-cream truck photo booth was the highlight at a two-year-old’s birthday party this summer. Kids and mothers lined up to pose through the opening in the truck to make adorable pictures. It is hard to get little kids to stand still for photographs in a birthday party and a photo booth is a great way to get them to pause for a moment to get that perfect picture. Props themed around superheroes, princesses and minions have been popular at birthday parties too.
It is no surprise that teenagers have taken to photo booths as instantly as they did with selfies. Props such as moustaches, red pouts, top hats, geeky glasses and curly haired wigs work well with teens.
A photo booth is all about saying it with pictures, in a fun way. with your loved ones, just grab a prop and strike a pose... Click!
