Last Saturday we hosted my daughter’s wedding celebration in our garden. One of her requirements was to have a photo booth in our gazebo with some props to enable guests to take ‘interesting’ (silly) photos of themselves such as this:
This is the bride and groom!
The setup was a bit rushed as the morning was wet and windy although the rain stopped in the middle of the day but the wind continued to be quite gusty through to mid afternoon. In addition, as father of the bride, I had to get dressed for the event as well as help with the organisation.
Bridesmaid and partner…
Lessons learnt:
- Perhaps I need a better background than the gazebo walls.
- Move the dressing up box to the front out of sight of the camera
- The straw bale was a good move.
- Check the exposure and flash settings in the ‘booth’ although this was difficult for me due to being involved in the organisation and the adverse weather prior to the event.
- Check/change the batteries for the flashgun more frequently – the main on-camera flash discharged quicker than the off-camera manual hammerhead flash.
- I had written ‘simple’ instructions but they were too long which put some people off.
Some of the children liked it!