Wedding Photo Booth

Nessa Wrafter: Hi I’m here with Seamus Ryan from Booth Nation. Hi, James. Seamus Ryan: Hi Nessa. Nessa Wrafter: Tell me where the photo booth idea came from? Well the booth idea came from something I do every Sunday in my studio and which is in Columbia Road Glamour in London where I invite the public to come into the studio and I set up a different portrait base project. They joined in everyday as a great time and hopefully we get original photographs. We build the booth to as an alternative to your standard portrait because I feel that a lot of people relax more in the photo booth than anywhere else. Nessa Wrafter: Tell me how the booth works? Seamus Ryan: Well the booth works in a number of ways. First, it can be just like a traditional conventional photo booth which produces four images strips of images, and alternatively this is sort of fine arts option where you can have really large prints and the other technology we’ve just about is as the photographs have been taken it can be projected radicals the room so everybody else of the wedding can see what’s going on the booth and that’s highly entertaining. Nessa Wrafter: So somebody was watching at home and they thought this is a great idea for their wedding, tell me about the different possibilities that you could have with the photo booth. Seamus Ryan: Well the one behind the scenario was a classic booth we trade based in the American 1950’s photo booth which to my mind is a photo booth, but the photo booth can be all manner of things. We have one version that’s entirely comforting glacier for disco party or a glamorous evening with that one called a ballet booth which is Asian themes but pretty much anything anybody wants the booth to look like it can work that way. Okay Nessa, come with me. Yes we designed to your own poster, you come along so it’s just Nessa but normally bride and grooms will be up there and the graphics would suit the theme of their wedding but we feel this reflected your personality. Nessa Wrafter: Well thank you I feel very special. Seamus Ryan: So as in shorts and say, shall we get in their market? Nessa Wrafter: I think we should. Seamus Ryan: So we’d go, after you. Nessa Wrafter: Well thank you. Seamus Ryan: That’s all we can do. Nessa Wrafter: It’s the idea that you’re an alternative to the conventional wedding photographer. Seamus Ryan: Absolutely, although we’re very happy to work along side them. A conventional wedding photographer has a quite hard job to do. Marshaling brides, grooms, fathers, mothers, mother’s of the bride etcetera, etcetera. At times that can be quite of stiff exercise and the images can be a little bit forced. The thing about the photo booth is once people go in there draw the curtain they basically come out, there’s all the conventions are gone, they’re not having the passbook picture takings so they’re just going to have fun. So what we find is that people really respond well and the pictures are very natural and a great memory of the day. Nessa Wrafter: Have you ever been surprised or amused by anything that’s connected to the booths sessions. Seamus Ryan: Surprised little amused definitely always. What we find is as the evening goes on people get more and more relaxed and possibly what the drink would do taken and near the end of the evening. It’s crazy in there. Huge crowds gather around the booth. It’s quite entertaining. Everybody in outside of the booth can see what’s going on inside so it becomes a bit of a focal point at times, and we don’t want to take away opposite from the bride but then, usually the brides in their having a good time to use and it’s great.