Comments on: Paducah

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:04:30 +0000

When Bear’s brother got married, there was a photo booth off to the side, the kind that you feed a dollar for a strip of four photos taken in succession. You took a strip of photos and then decorated a page in the scrapbook with them. Total genius.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:00:45 +0000

35 it is:

http://chrisashworth.org/photos/justin-and-beth-wedding/35-photo-booth.JPG.html

By: Jenna (P2 Photography)

Jenna (P2 Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:59:14 +0000

by the way, Picture 35 (or maybe it’s 38) in chris’s shots of the wedding shows the Photobooth setup pretty well. plus, it’s a totally funny shot. Jude looks like a supermodel.

By: Beth Tolley

Beth Tolley — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:58:16 +0000

Thanks Chris for posting your pics! There are some really great ones. Looking at these makes me want to go back and do it all again! (Not the planning, just the fun!)

Thanks!!!
Beth

By: Jenna (P2 Photography)

Jenna (P2 Photography) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:25:30 +0000

Hi Nico,

Glad you like the photographs. In terms of our setup, here it is…we used a white seamless backdrop as a background. Our main light was an umbrella that was placed just to the left of the camera. (Light was bounced off, not shot through it). We also used a small light with a snoot (long tunnel-like object that narrows the breadth of the light) on the right side aiming at the backdrop. This gave some highlight to the other side of people’s faces, as well as helping light the backdrop further. We used a Profoto studio lighting kit for the setup. We shoot with a Canon 5D, which we set up on a tripod. We used a remote shutter release and just stood there goofing off with people trying to get them to be silly. We shoot weddings as a team, so we can afford to have someone do this while the other person gets all the shots of the reception. As for post production, we ran everything through Lightroom for basic color correction (this is easy because of the white background) and that was it. If you have any more questions, feel free to contact me. My website is http://www.p2photography.net and there’s a contact page there. I’d be happy to chat some more.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:22:53 +0000

Hi Nico! I agree — I’m always blown away by Jon and Jenna’s work. I asked them to stop by and comment on how they did it; they can describe the setup better than me.

By: Nico

Nico — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:10:37 +0000

Those photographs are amazing! This one is a winner as well:

http://www.p2photography.net/clients/TolleyPhotobooth/content/_MG_9491_large.html

I feel like I want to tell everybody I know about this! Thanks for sharing! It’d be interesting if you could share a bit about the setup they used. Obviously, there was some serious material involved, the pictures are flaming sharp and the colors are incredibly vivid. I imagine some kind of automatic lighting setup as well. Was it taking pictures at regular intervals, or was there a button to be pressed?

Cheers!