I love photobooth photos, don’t you? The process is firmly lodged both in my mind and in my heart: four flashes of friends crammed in a very tight space, spilling out with laughter, waiting with baited breath for the machine to spit out the results (which may or may not be terrible), holding the strip by the edges amid shouts of “let me see” and “don’t touch it, it’s still wet!”
It certainly is a process, isn’t it?
For awhile my daughters and I were adding a strip of photobooth photos inside Mark’s birthday cards. Or was it Father’s Day? I can’t remember. That tradition was forgotten somewhere along the way, but my love for the photobooth experience has never wavered.
I figured something out recently and I wanted to share it with fellow photobooth lovers (er, and iPhone owners) … a way to fake your own photobooth photos!
First, download the 99 cent Pocketbooth app from the iTunes store.
Then, find a photobooth near you! We went to our usual location at Carlingwod Mall. Other photobooth locations around in Ottawa (in case you’re wondering) include Bayshore Shopping Centre, Billings Bridge Centre, the Ottawa Bus Central Station, and St. Laurent Centre (according to Photobooth.net anyway).
As much as I recommend the real experience (the posing, the waiting, the drying) the digital experience comes a close second. And it’s cheap, and easy!
Once you’re positioned in the photobooth, open the Pocketbooth app and turn your camera around so it faces you. Don’t forget to choose your background! (Will it be the 1960s orange polyester curtain? Or sky blue? Or both?) All you need to do is launch the app and take your photos.
That’s it! The Pocketbooth app allows you to email the photo strip or save it to a roll. I haven’t tried printing it yet, but it almost doesn’t matter. I’m just happy to have a digital file I can share, and to have a renewed memory of my photoboothin’ days.
