Lots of DJ companies offer photo booth services these days. And most of those services are complete garbage.
We’ve noticed that those are the same DJ companies that think they’re diversifying by investing in something they knew nothing about (like lighting and light design) and think they can offer a cheap photo booth for big money to get a quick return on their investment.
Photo booths are actually really easy to come by. They come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and with different software. (Since the software is where the user experience primarily takes place, and since that software can cost hundreds of dollars, they’ll cut corners elsewhere.) The fact is, shopping-mall-style photo booths nestled inside plywood walls with a drawn curtain seem to be a reasonable standard to these DJs. It’s almost like they don’t even realize how dated and cheap-looking that experience is.
And there are plenty of other ways to cut corners, too. The enclosure for their photo booth is likely a plywood box with a hole drilled out for the camera with the words “Look Here” scribbled next to it. Or maybe it’s an iPad kiosk because they’re using a tablet instead of professional equipment. Maybe they have any of these “premium“ (emphasis on those quotation marks) photo booths that they purchased from the internet for $1000-$3000…
