I managed to have a relatively quiet Easter weekend but this week has started with a real bang.

We have taken our first bookings for 2009 and also our first Christmas booking for this year… I do know that Christmas bookings do start early if companies want to get all the services and options that they want and it seems that the Photobooth falls under that heading. If you are after a booking with Rentabooth for Christmas or leading up to Christmas, give us a call if you already have a date. I have a feeling that the Photobooth is going to be very busy. )

A few weeks ago when we were going to weddings shows and I accosted (in a nice way!) a lady walking past our stand and told her all about the Photobooth. She was smiling when she told me that she had a better way of doing things and would be supplying her guests with a Polaroid camera to do the same thing…

I pointed out to her that it wouldn’t be the same thing. The Photobooth is private which gives your guests the freedom to be as fun and uninhibited as they like. If they want to be wacky, they can be. If they want to be serious, they can do that too. Wacky is fun but not obligatory! It also shoots four sequential shots and prints them all. That would be very expensive with Polaroid!

Unfortunately the use of a Polaroid camera, even though it would be a poor imitation of the Photobooth, will not be available for much longer. All of the Polaroid film factories will be closing over the coming months so that Polaroid instant film will cease to be available. The first instant Polaroid camera became available way back in 1948 but digital cameras have finally put the nail in the coffin of Polaroid and I haven’t decided whether that is a good thing yet.

If you intend using a Polaroid camera to create a wedding guest book stock up on film soon! In the meantime, if you would like the real deal as far as a Photobooth is concerned, give us a call to book yours!

I was never a big fan of Polaroid myself as it has always been so expensive to buy and I have always preferred the quality of conventional film cameras. When digital came along and it has gradually been getting better and better. So much so, that its quality has now surpassed film cameras. For me it is no contest.

We use a quality 10 megapixel digital single lens reflex camera in the Photobooth with a very high quality zoom lens. The reason that enlargements can go so large from any image that the Photobooth shoots…

We had a whale of a time at Dave & Elaine’s reception at the Berkshire College of Agriculture, Maidenhead on Saturday night. A beautiful venue for a wedding with loads of room.

Here’s a link to the reception website here.

It was a huge reception with over 200 people and the Photobooth was constantly busy with some of the guests going in two or three times. They loved it!

What amazes me is the sheer imagination of some of the people that went through and due to some very detailed graphics on our speech bubbles, I can’t post them on here!

Here’s the bride and groom…

Elaine first heard about us on the web after attending a wedding in Australia where the couple had a Photobooth. This is a shot of Elaine and her dad writing in the Photobooth book.

A shot of some of the guests comparing notes.

Here’s one of my favourites from last night. Is there an ‘e’ in the word pooed/pood? )

We finished up at around 10.30pm and the alcohol had really started to take hold and it’s probably just as well as items of clothing had started to be removed and various body parts were starting to be shown. It was a great laugh and everybody had a great time!

If you haven’t been on the Rentabooth site for a week or so, if you visit now, you’ll see that we have a Special Offer on that is running until 31st March. Book and pay in full for your date and receive a CD/DVD of the high resolution JPEGs from your event free of charge. We normally charge a £100.00 for them so it’s a really good deal.

The Ireland Connection

We have had a glut of enquiries from Southern Ireland over the last few days and mainly from people who want their own Photobooth business. If you are in a different area to us and want to own your own Photobooth business you should give us a call. We are currently working on our second Photobooth as I write this as so many enquiries are coming in but there is a distance over which it becomes too expensive in travel costs for clients to book us. We have now had enquiries in from as far away as Sotland as there are so few Photobooth companies that attend functions for less than £1000.

We were in the West End at Quaglinos on Sunday night for Charlotte’s Batmitzvah. The parents really push the boat out at these events and Charlotte’s was no exception. A 20 foot video screen showed all of the people there a constantly running video of proceedings along with footage from when she was younger. A caricaturist was creating small works of art of the kids and putting them on badges. Great fun!

Here she is being received by her friends and family.

Here’s a shot of her and one of our previous Batmitzvah girls, Alex . We shot her Batmitzvah back in December.

Currently everybody in our current set of clients from the Jewish community all go for the keyring option that we offer but none, so far, have had a Photobooth. I know that it would be even more fun for the kids as they can take the shots themselves and get prints instantly. We can now incorporate their prints into keyrings or magnets to give them a little more to take away with them. Give us a call for a quote.

I guarantee that they will have even more fun from the Photobooth!

See you next week. RG

50th Wedding Anniversary and an idea for the Photobooth

We shot a 50th wedding anniversary party tonight at a very nice Greek restaurant in Stanmore for a lovely couple. They knew about us as we shot their grand daughter’s Batmitzvah a few months ago. It was dead easy to remember their names as they are almost the same… Norman and Norma. Listening to the speeches I was surprised to hear that their three bridesmaids and the best man from all that time ago were there.

It gave me a great idea for the Photobooth…

We have been shooting the youngsters at Bar/Bat Mitzvahs for a couple of years now. We try and take all of the photographs during the reception, print them and pop the prints into keyrings during the meal. The kids love ‘em and fix them on their school satchels and bags. I checked the size of the Photobooth prints and I’m happy to report that they fit into keyrings or magnets. )

It’s something I have to price but we’ll be offering them on the Photobooth website in the next week or two.

New Pixels Gallery

The Pixels website has a brand new gallery with some of our latest work that really shows the great variety of the work we are doing. It will give you a really good idea of what you can expect on your wedding day if you are looking for something different. Take a look and give us a call if you like what you see.