National Event Photography, Greenscreen Photo Booths, Headshot Photography & Convention Photography Post Covid

As our summer (and even fall!) schedule approaches, it’s time to plan your experiential events.  Are you  looking for experiential photo marketing, convention photography, green screen photo booths, or headshot photo booths ?  National event photographers Matthew Frey and Mike Gatty work with you hand-in-glove, and will help your team plan the perfect photo execution.

Our live event schedule is filling fast, but one lesson COVID taught us: plans change.  As a result, we still have our easy cancellation policies in place.

Now is the perfect time to take new headshots for your entire team.  Whether you want us to come to one office, or locations across the country, national photographer Mike Gatty will personally handle each in-office headshot photo session. 

We were in Dish Network’s Corporate Offices in Littleton, CO about 8 years ago with HBO.  For that shoot, HBO brought in the throne from Game of Thrones, we erected a giant green screen in back of it, and reproduced the on-set throne room.  Participants took the throne, and for a brief time, ruled the seven kingdoms.

So when Kelsey Piegat from Dish called about a green screen photo booth in Orlando, we naturally asked if she was calling from Littleton.  When she said she was, we told her about the HBO shoot.

“You’re kidding! You took those photos?” She asked, “people still have them on their desks!”

So Kelsey told use about her new project: at the Dish Summit in Orlando, she wanted it to look like participants were hanging from a 5G Dish Network Cell Tower.

While on the surface “hanging from a tower” green screen photo booth might seem simple enough, the actual set design is tricky.  Any time you need to capture the full body against a green screen, it adds a wrinkle.  After all, the “dangling feet” were important to the final overall image, so everything — feet included– needed captured against green.  Second, lighting is key:  it must be even across the background, green foam floor, and participant.  We achieved that by utilizing six lights:  four lights in the front of the photo set, and two illuminating the background.

The final photobooth design and experience to fit seamlessly into an experiential marketing booth Dish set up in the middle of the show floor.   And hanging from a cell phone tower? Turns out that was a huge hit.  Maybe those photos will sit on desks next to the HBO photos?

4DMedical had a problem.  They wanted to set up their brand new, first in the world, dedicated functional lung scanner at the American Thoracic Society (ATS). a major medical conference in Washington, DC.  Further, they wanted to provide participants a take-away of both what the scanner does, and how it is different from other imaging devices.  Last, the final image had to be fun and fit in with the vibe of the conference — an event that brings doctors and medical professionals from across the globe.

The machine itself was set up at the conference.  Participants sat in the scanner, and one of the engineers who designed the equipment talked to them about the huge device.  Meanwhile, we took a photo of the participant in the scanner, and exported the combined greenscreen image to our system for participant email and text messaging.  The scanner uses four dedicated x-rays to image the lungs, and 4D wanted to make sure those “beams” would be depicted in the final marketing image. Of course, no x-rays were actually used at the event.

To create the images, we set up a customized 8′ background in back of the chair where participants sat.  Our camera and photographer were unobtrusive, off to the side of the scanner, and the iPad texting/emailing system was in another part of the booth.  The result?  Photos that captured the scanner and showed what it did, and provided an upbeat takeaway for the attending medical professionals, without interfering with the educational experience or the flow of the booth.