Photo booth strips - Make garland from your photos!

Considering a photo booth for your party, wedding, or event? Check out this great idea for using your photo strips! While Photo Booth Florida provides unlimited photos during your event, its up to you what you do with them! This is a step by step on how to create a fun 'photo-garland' using individual frames from your photo-fun-strips. Great for decorating your room, or using for your next event.
Story by Jennifer Worick of Craftstylish.com !

Just drape your garland on your tree, using the book rings to hook it on branches.

Jennifer Worick

Using double-stick tape, affix two photo frames together to create a double-sided garland.

Jennifer Worick

Just drape your garland on your tree, using the book rings to hook it on branches.

Photo: Jennifer Worick

I have a thing for photo booths. Photo strips litter my apartment: They are plastered on my fridge, tucked in books, framed on the wall. I admit that I’m a photostripaholic, and I’m okay with that. But I got to thinking that a great way to display and repurpose them would be to create a festive garland that can be draped from the window frame during parties or wrapped around a tree during the holidays.

What you’ll need:

• 15 photo strips for an approximately 5-1/2-foot garland
• Scissors
• Double-stick tape
• Laminating machine and two laminating sleeves (they look like clear plastic sheet protectors)
• Paper hole punch
• Thirty 1-inch hinged book rings (which I got at my friendly neighborhood office-supply store)

A pile of your favorite photo strips can be transformed into an unusual tree garland or banner.

Step 1: Cut out the individual frames from the photo strips. Put aside any incriminating shots. Now using a small piece of double-stick tape, tape the backs of two frames together so that you have images on either side of your piece. If you don’t have a lot of photos, just work with a one-sided garland and skip taping the photos.

Using double-stick tape, affix two photo frames together to create a double-sided garland.

Step 2: Carefully place your photo squares in a plastic sleeve, making sure there is a small amount of space around each one. They should not be touching. Carefully feed each sleeve through the laminating machine. I laminate at Kinko's; they charge you by the sleeve so I try to get as many photos in the sleeve as possible.

Gang as many photo frames as you can into a laminating sleeve, leaving a bit of space around each one.

The laminated sheet. Just start cutting out your photos, leaving a thin border of plastic around each.

Step 3: Cut out each photo, leaving a small edge of clear lamination around each one. Using a normal paper punch, punch a hole on the left and right sides of each photo.

Just pry apart a book ring and slip two photo frames onto it. Before long, you'll have a lot of "links" on your garland.

Step 4: Open a hinged book ring, and slip two photo squares on it, making sure they are both right-side up (this will mean that you slip the book ring through the right hole of the first square and the left hole of the second). Close the book ring. Open a new book ring, and slip it through the right hole of the second square on the first book ring. Add a new photo square to this book ring, this time slipping the ring through the left hole of the square and closing. Continue in this manner, until all of your photo squares are secured on your garland. Add book rings to the outer squares; this will allow you to hang the garland from nails if you so choose.

I'm going to hang my photo garland from my window frame year-round. I'm sort of obsessed with it and can't wait to add to it.

Just drape your garland on your tree, using the book rings to hook it on branches.

Note: You can scan your strips if you are loathe to cut them up. Just print out the scanned strips, cut out the individual frames, and laminate as if they were the real photos. The beauty of this is that you can then repeat images if you don’t have a surplus of photo strips.

Tip: Take just one of these photo frames and one book ring and you’ve got a nice napkin ring. Consider setting the table by placing a laminated photo of each guest attached to a book ring at each place setting.

Wedding photos / photobooth

Rent A Photo Booth For Your Wedding Or Special Occasion!

Written by Lynnette

Did you know that you can actually rent a photobooth for your wedding or other special event?

What a great way to get candid and FUN shots of your party guests, right?

The photo strips could be used in a personal scrapbook (instead of using a traditional guestbook), or handed out to guests (what a FUN party favor).

And with everything going "retro" these days... it just makes sense that photo booths would be finding their way into weddings and other special events.

Here's the scoop...

By my quick study of a handful of companies offering photobooth rentals, it costs about $1,500 or so for a full day's use.

And there are usually big discounts for multi-day use.

That's not exactly the kind of cash I've got lying around for a weekend event or the kind of parties we tend to throw around here. But I'm thinking... for a wedding... it just might be worth it!

Truth is, I never even thought of doing something like this at a wedding, until I saw it on Dr. Phil on TV a few days ago. (I had a weak moment... and then I remembered why I make a conscious attempt not to watch this show whenever I'm home on weekdays.)

Dr. Phil's son, Jay just got married and he and his bride had a photo booth at their wedding! All of the guests were invited to step inside to snap 4 individual photos. And the photo strips themselves were placed in a wedding scrapbook -- in lieu of having a formal guestbook.

What FUN, right?!?!

The Photo Booth - featured in the New York Times

Photo booths are becoming increasingly popular! They are perfect for weddings, birthdays, corporate events - any gathering in which friends and colleagues are brought together. Check out this article from the New York Times about the growing love of the Photo Booth.

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Coin. Smile. Click!e

By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH

Published: March 14, 2008

ON a recent sunny but frigid morning, I strolled up Broadway through Times Square with Näkki Goranin, a visitor from Vermont making a pilgrimage through the swirling crowds and the sensory overload of all the signage. We stopped on the west side of Broadway between 51st and 52nd Streets. It looked nondescript to me, with the usual fast food, souvenir shop, gym and drugstore.

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Josh Haner/The New York Times

Rachel Risen, left, and Jessica Millspaugh in the photo booth at BB&R, on the Upper East Side, one of the bars with a coin-operated machine.

But Ms. Goranin, a photographer whose book “American Photobooth” (W. W. Norton) has just been published, declared it “a landmark in photo history.” Because, she said, in 1926, roughly where the gym is now, a Jewish inventor from Siberia named Anatol Josepho (shortened from Josephewitz) opened a photo-booth concession, the first Photomaton in the world.

An instant hit, the photo booth spread from this spot in Times Square to arcades, amusement parks, state fairs, bus depots and five-and-dimes around the country. Across eight decades it has recorded countless youthful frolics, loving kisses and inebriated indiscretions. Its popularity has survived the Depression, the vanishing of the old arcades and five-and-dimes and the proliferation of disposable, digital and cellphone cameras. Nick Montano, executive editor of the industry monthly Vending Times, estimates that there are still something like 10,000 booths around the country.

But the old-fashioned booths with their “dip ’n’ dunk” chemical developing process and breathless wait for the damp strip of black-and-white images to slide out are disappearing into scrapheaps or into the homes of collectors (Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino among them), giving way to booths with digital, computerized equipment.

On the busy Broadway sidewalk, Ms. Goranin explained how it all began. Mr. Josepho was just one of many inventors striving to perfect a fully automated photo booth in the early 20th century, she said. He was born in 1894 and grew up in Omsk, Siberia, dreaming of the Wild West and learning to use a Brownie camera, which Eastman Kodak introduced in 1900. As a young man he roamed the globe, from Paris and Budapest to Shanghai, finally reaching the Wild West, or Hollywood anyway, in the mid-1920s, then hitchhiked cross-country with his photo-booth schematics. In New York City, he assembled the engineers and mechanics to build the first few Photomatons he unveiled at 1659 Broadway in the fall of 1926.

“When it first opened, there were people standing all the way around the block,” Ms. Goranin said. Mr. Josepho kept the Photomaton “studio,” as he called it, open 24 hours. In April 1927, Time magazine reported that 280,000 customers had entered his booths in the first six months. They spent 25 cents each to pose and then wait the eight minutes it took to process a strip of eight small photos. Among them was Gov. Al Smith, not the last political figure to step into a photo booth. In 1953, the newlyweds Jack and Jackie Kennedy took glowing self-portraits in one.

In the early years, Ms. Goranin said, using a photo booth was not quite the private affair it would become. At Photomaton, attendants in white smocks and gloves took patrons’ money, suggested poses, cut the strips into individual photos and sold extras like frames and color tinting. Curtains were added later, inviting romantic and sometimes risqué behavior.

Photomaton was such a sensation that in March 1927 a business consortium headed by Henry Morgenthau Sr., the former United States ambassador to Turkey and a founder of the American Red Cross, paid Mr. Josepho $1 million for the American rights. The deal made the front page of The New York Times.

Competitors soon sprang up. A few doors up from Mr. Josepho’s studio, at 1671 Broadway, a place called Photomovette appeared, followed over the years by Photomatic, Auto-Photo, the Photo-Strip Junior, Photo-Me and others. Some booths weren’t as automated as they seemed. In storage in Vermont, Ms. Goranin has an old booth in which a hidden employee would quickly develop the strips and push them out the slot to unsuspecting patrons.

Farther down Broadway, between 47th and 48th Streets, on a block now dominated by Morgan Stanley’s headquarters, the 3,000-seat Strand movie theater once stood. Two doors away, a Photomaton concession opened in 1932. It was run by a man named John Slack, and it was so popular that he kept a large extended family employed there through the Depression.

In the course of researching her book, Ms. Goranin tracked down Slack’s son, Jeffrey, on Long Island. He told her he had just thrown several decades’ worth of old photos, family business records and even camera lenses into a Dumpster.

read more at NYTimes.com

Photo Booth Props!

Fun props are included in every PhotoBoothFlorida rental!



















Props - Props can add another dimension of fun to your photo booth rental. Guests can adorn novelties such as over sized sun glasses, feathered boas, and crowns. This option is usually extra or in a higher priced package. With Photo Booth Florida its all included! We want you to make the most of your rental with our booths. Here's a list of possible props:

• feathered boas
• king crown
• tiara
• funny glasses (oversized, nerdy, mustache, etc)
• hats (sombrero, pirate, viking, fireman's, farmer's, etc)
• Hawaiian flower leis
• inflatable toys (swords, musical instruments, etc.)
• wigs

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