Carla's 30th party photo booth

A last minute booking in January,  I really loved this party. Everyone had a good time, and didn't stop taking photos all night.

However I did have a little issue with getting lost on my way to the party, I wasn't impressed with google maps taking us the long way round :( grrrr and I HATE getting lost.  I made it in the end, put a smile on face and forgot all about my troubles and did what I do best take lots of lovely photos.

Sweet 16 house party photo booth

I LOVE teen parties and as you all may know I specialise in children and teen parties, setting up custom stylish photo booths in venues and in your home. Yes you can have a photo booth set up in your house even if you house isn't that big, I have a custom backdrop that I can re-size to accommodate any party.

Lilly's mum organised a surprise 16th house party, theme pink and black and hired me as a surprise to. 

I set up Lily's photo booth in her front room and the girls had a good time taking photos and lots of dancing. I don't have a photo of the full backdrop, but as you can see from this photo I set up the backdrop against a wall and a studio light is placed behind the girl in the blue jacket. The girls would stand in front of the backdrop to get their photos taken.

Here are the rest of the photos......

Free family portraits with my photo booth

I love this photo - taken at a teen party I quickly grabbed
the family for 15 mins for portraits 

A big part of what my business stands for is 

Family, love and happiness, 

its what I believe in and what I promote. 

Many of us have never had professional photos with our loved ones and I noticed when I first started my business people wanted normal family photos with out the props or acting silly, just a nice family portrait. I had a light bulb moment and thought "why don't I add family portraits to my photo booth service as an add on for free" and since then people love it and really appreciate having their photos taken with their loved ones. How it works is whenever I'm hired for an event, I invite the guests to have a family photo, photos with props and the guests can come back and fought as many times as they like. 

Here is a collection of family photos from previous events:

Joint party photo booth - 2 photo booths in one

What do you do when you have a joint party and you need to create a photo booth both for a boy and a girl, one wants a princess theme and the other wants superheros?

Easy you just split the photo booth in two lool :) 

Ok so it wasn't that easy, when I found out I had this booking and their lovely mum asked if I could do both themes I said "sure" without having a clue how I was going to make it work. This is what I love about my business, I love challenges and don't stick to the norm. 

If I can envision it in my mind it can HAPPEN. Then I had my light bulb moment, "why not have two photo booths but joint together in the middle"?. The boys can take their photo on the birthday boys side and the girls can have their photos on the birthday girls side and then just to be crazy for group shots the children can just stand in the middle. Wa la, there you have it two photo booth's in one. I know its not rocket science but I was quite proud of my self for being so creative. 

Here are the lovely photos .......................

Beauty photo Booth, red carpet style

I love fashion and beauty photography, but it is hard work and very competitive. As a hobby I sometimes dabble in a bit of this photography to try new things and to see how I can further improve my photo booth. My friends daughter recently started a beauty blog and needed some photos for her blog, so I decided to set up a photo booth at her house and use fashion and beauty photography techniques and lighting. 

My main idea is I want to set up a beauty/fashion photo booth at events where people are really dressed up and want more elegant photos like the red carpet. 

So I'm constantly studying fashion photography, posing techniques, exploring different styles of editing and lighting set ups. My aim is, I want all the people in the photos to look like celebrity's. A lot of celebrity's are not natural at modelling/posing, over time they have learnt their best angles to quickly pose for the paparazzi on the red carpet or whilst out and about, hence why they have really beautiful photos. Of course lovely make up and styling  of their clothes play a big part but to take a really nice photo, you do really need to know how to pose in front of the camera and for many of us it doesn't come natural. I know I'm useless in front of the camera and now I'm practicing  posing techniques on my self so I'm able to better direct others. 

To show you what I'm talking about look at these before and after photos of celebs early in their career and now and you will see a big difference in how they posed in their photos. Confidence also plays a big part and the more confident you are it will show in your photo. 

My business nearly failed before I even started

I'm a self taught photographer, I have never been to college or uni to learn photography. I have just read books and watched lots and lots of you tube tutorials. I only started this business in June this year not because I wanted to start in June but more like I was forced to due to my manager letting me go earlier then my contract stated. I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't disappointed I was very disappointed, in fact very angry, because my plans were ruined, I planned to work there and start my business slowly so at least I have an income coming in and I can build my business up step by step. 



But sometimes in life as we all know, it never goes according to plan, so there I was, no money, I had half of the equipment I needed and to make thing worse I just ordered a new camera I didn't know how to use. I was in a right pickle, I had so much to learn, I was unprepared and no income. It looked like failure was was in my face before I even started. 

Ernie's circus theme photo booth

I love creating themed photo booth's for children's parties, this is what makes my photo booth unique and stand out from the rest. The photos also look amazing and very creative. Little Ernie had his first birthday and had a circus themed party so of course my photo booth was styled according to the theme. To create my circus themed photo booth, I first seek inspiration from google and pinterest and use this as a starting point. Straight away I knew I wanted the colour scheme to be a baby yellow backdrop and red silky curtains and I also wanted circus themed props.

As always I went to visit my fav fabric shop and and the party store to get my props. I sometimes purchase printable templates and make handmade props but on this occasion I didn't need to do that. 

Everyone loved the photo booth and the grown up's got involved to. I LOVE colourful photos, so I was very pleased how rich the colours were so when I was editing the photos I only needed to do a small amount of editing to enhance the photos.

Here are a few of the photos.........