{"id":176,"date":"2018-01-21T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.staciehibino.org\/stacie\/?p=176"},"modified":"2018-08-04T20:46:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T20:46:14","slug":"pseudo-photobooth-kodak-blog-march-13-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.staciehibino.org\/stacie\/blog\/2018\/01\/21\/pseudo-photobooth-kodak-blog-march-13-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Pseudo Photobooth (Kodak Blog, March 13, 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTE: This is a \u201creprint\u201d of my blog post to Kodak\u2019s previous \u201cA Thousand Words\u201d blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s something magical about a photobooth<\/a>.  You step into the booth by yourself, with some friends, or with that special someone\u2026 the pictures are about to be taken and all of a sudden, you hear that unspoken message to make a goofy face or to show affection to the one you love\u2026 you wait impatiently for the results to pop out\u2026 then, it\u2019s instant smiles \u2013 a series of moments captured in time, captured forever, captured to bring more smiles for years to come.<\/p>\n

I had been thinking about making a photobooth for awhile and last summer, I finally got around to my own pseudo photobooth solution.  While I did not make a physical photobooth, I found the end results to be quite delightful indeed.  If you do some quick searching on the web, you will likely come across the Photobooth.net<\/a> site, where there is a section on photobooth projects<\/a>.  You might also find the step-by-step instructions for a DIY Photobooth<\/a> on instructables<\/a>.  If you have a Macintosh, you could opt to use their photo booth software<\/a>, which works on OS X with an iSight webcam.<\/p>\n

So what did I do?  I was not ambitious enough to build a physical booth, so I skipped that step.  I looked into some of the computer-based camera controls \u2013 i.e., to connect a camera via USB port to control the capture taking and transfer of images via computer.  I was not very satisfied with the results and since I was not building a physical booth, I did not like the idea of having to be tethered to a computer to capture pictures.  So, to keep things simple, I decided I would try to capture a series of portrait shots of people (asking them to make silly faces) and then write a short script to take four pictures as input and generate one image as output \u2013 the final output image being three photo strips of the four pictures.  This allowed me to print three photo strips at once, as a 4×6 print.  While this is smaller than the typical photo strip that you would get from a photobooth, it saves on printing and facilitates sharing.<\/p>\n

You might be surprised what kids will do when you tell them to make a silly face!  Here\u2019s one series of photos that I took:<\/p>\n

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The resulting output for this series, as well as the output for another series of pictures, is shown below.<\/p>\n

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These are some of my favorite pictures from last summer!  If you are planning to try this out yourself, here are a few tips, to help you out:<\/p>\n