Prom season is in full effect! Adding a photo booth rental to your prom or an after/post prom is a great idea. Your prom is the dance that defines your high school experience and hanging out with your friends one last time before the school year is over. The photo booth will capture those great memories with your classmates, friends and prom dates to cherish in the years to come. Years from now you will not only have that photo strip with your long lost love or high school friends to look back upon but you will have them for as long as possible with your access to the digital files to catalog in your virtual cloud.

• Location, Location, Location!

Work with your venue to select a good location for your photo booth rental. We have had previous calls saying that no one knew where the photo booth was or that there even was a photo booth. Worry no longer! Try to keep in mind the “out of site, out of mind” principal. The booth will be most successful in an area near the traffic and energy of the party. Photo booths placed in separate rooms or levels may result in less pictures taken, as previous clients are found out. Sometimes the best place for the photo booth (near the bar) is not always plausible based on traffic and guest flow, but do consider this simple principal when deciding the placement of the booth! The floor space / footprint of the fully assembled booth is 7’ long x 3’ deep.

• Announcements & Written Reminders:

It is a very good idea to have your host, MC, DJ or band make a few announcements throughout the course of your event to remind the guests to visit the photo booth. This gives everyone the opportunity to have pictures taken to remember the day (if you purchase our scrapbook service you can have photos of everyone at your event to cherish) and you as well. Some guests will not need any reminders or encouragement, but there will always be some guests that have never seen or experienced a photo booth like ours. Another idea is to place a simple written note on the place setting throughout the venue to encourage the guests to visit the booth and get their photo taken and/or participate in your scrapbook (if you are going with this option, which we always recommend for Weddings).

Say Cheese! Photography takes place in many forms and a photo booth is a fun way to do so. At Red Eye Photo Booths we are all about having as much fun during your party or special event but you should always be safe and act proper according to the event you’re attending.

We have seen guest at various of events take inappropriate photos from women exposing themselves and flashing the camera, people exposing genitals to the camera, and somethings that can’t be mentioned. What most people don’t realize is that the photos they are taking are also uploaded to our online gallery for everyone to see. EVERYONE. So when you take a picture of yourself exposing whichever body part not only are you displaying this for everyone from the event to view but you are putting a picture of that out on to the internet for the WORLD to see.

Most of the time we are able to catch photos as such (*see below) and hide/delete them from the galleries before people can see them but some slip through. You wouldn’t want someone at your wedding to “moon the camera” and have the parents of the groom/bride having to see that while looking at pictures of your big day.

DON’T BE THE ONE TO RUIN IT FOR EVERYONE!

Don't Be the One to Ruin it For Everyone

Location, Location, Location:

Work with your venue to select a good location for the booth. Try to keep in mind the “out of site, out of mind” principal. The booth will be most successful in an area near the traffic and energy of the party. Photo booths placed in separate rooms or levels may result in less pictures taken. Sometimes the best place for the booth (near the bar) is not always plausible based on traffic and guest flow, but do consider this simple principal when deciding the placement of the booth! The floor space / footprint of the fully assembled booth is 7’ long x 3’ deep.

Announcements & Written Reminders:

It is a very good idea to have your host, MC, DJ or band make a few announcements throughout the course of your event to remind the guests to visit the booth. Some guests will not need any reminders or encouragement, but there will always be some guests that have never seen or experienced a photo booth. Another idea is to place a simple written note on the place setting to encourage the guests to visit the booth and get their photo taken and or participate in your scrapbook (if you are going with this option).

Scrapbook Station:

If you intend to set up your own scrapbook station next to the booth (you will need to order
duplicate strips for $75.00), a good idea to set out step by step written instruction for your guests to follow as well as a template: glue 4 to 5 photo strips to a blank page pulled from your book, then above or below each strip write “write your message here”. Black card stock fill makes a nice contrast against the white edge of the photo strips. See our scrapbook options for suggested layout.

Props!

Props are fun and can really add to the excitement of the photo booth! Hats, boas, eye masks, mustaches, smiles on a stick, wigs, over sized glasses, over sized costume gloves and inflatable props are all fun ideas to include in your prop box.

Online Viewing:

Your photos should be posted within 2 to 3 days after your event to our online photo gallery (if you chose this option on your contract). Please alert your guests to visit our website and select the “Event Photos” link that is the 6th tab on the top banner of the each page of the site OR directly to our smugmug page. Events are typically listed chronologically by first names and date of event or event name (more recent dates will be near the top).

* To make searching for your event easier while on Smugmug use the shortcut keys ctrl+f (command + f on Mac) to pull up a search bar that will search the entire page for your designated keywords.