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C24 celebrate! • 2017 jn Photo booths and green screens: What you need to know. Ready For P hoto booths are not new, but the technology has improved immensely. Just recently, I was looking at the three-ring binder of printed Polaroid photos from my bar mitzvah. It wasn't the photo booth of the 21st century, but my parents had a couple of older teens ( family friends) take Polaroids of our guests and paste them on colorful pages so the guests could leave their mazel tov wishes next to the photos. Companies were also avail- able during the middle to late 1980s to print Polaroids and place them in Lucite standing frames for the guests to take home as souvenirs of the event. Fast forward to today and there are countless companies avail- able with the ability to quickly print high-resolution photos of your guests with a number of gimmicks. These photo booths have become increasingly popular at not only bar and bat mitzvahs, but also at weddings, birthday parties and corporate events. Now guests can control their own backgrounds in green-screen photo booths simply by tapping among pre-chosen images on a touch screen. They can dress up in costumes, record a video greeting, grab props and have unlimited photos printed, with their party logo, instantly. As guests have come to expect instant sharing on their social networks, new technologies in photo booths have been pushed out. The latest feature photo booth companies like Masserman Photography in Keego Harbor, which is rolling out a slow-motion photo booth implementing video clips set to music. Star Trax Entertainment, based in Ferndale, now offers custom- ized Snapchat Geo-Filters. This means that when guests are at the venue, they can choose the official Snapchat filter for that event. Star Trax is also offering Mirror Me, which lets guest look directly into a mirror to pose for their photo. Many photo booth options have a GIF component, which allows the guest to create a very short animation sound. Photographer Jay Dreifus is offering this now and it's called GIFy. Many photo booth vendors offer green screen technology, which allows your Jews in the Digital Age Jason Miller FotoBomb lets guests choose superimposed backgrounds, provides social media options and includes a memory book of photos. Your Close Up continued on page 26