National Event Photography and COVID-19

As the national vaccination rate ticks up, and DELTA infections go down, planning of in-person events is ramping up.  WE ARE FULLY IMMUNIZED against the COVID-19 virus — complete with booster shots.  If you are planning an event, and are looking for experiential photo marketing, convention photography, green screen photo booths, or headshot photo booths don’t hesitate to contact us.  Returning to office?  Think about refreshing your team headshots.

Our live event schedule is filling — so please, reach out to plan your next event.  In addition to other safety measures, we have a QR Code Photo Retrieval System to eliminate touchpoints at our events.  Check out the video explaining the process.  If your plan change, just let us know.  That’s it.  We have easy cancellation policies in place in case COVID interferes with your plans.

As live events crank up — despite the Delta Variant — live, in-person events are filling our schedule.  We are fully vaccinated, and have resumed photography services.  If you’re still concerned about the impact of COVID during these challenging times, we have policies and technology in place to help keep everyone safe and to comply with your event protocols.  Plan your green screen photo booth, experiential photo marketing event, headshot photo booth, or convention photography needs now.  Already availability is limited, as events postponed from the past months are being rescheduled.  Talk to us about your needs: if your plans change, just let us know.

Travel and Adventure Series Core Client

After half of the 2020 Travel and Adventure Show series was cancelled due to COVID-19, plans are underway for 2021 AND 2022.  Those plans will include the infamous US Event Photos experiential green screen photo booth.  We have made a few tweaks to the experience, taking DELTA variant into consideration.

For the 2021 Dallas, Atlanta, and Bay Area shows, we are eliminating all on-location, physical props.  Instead, we are substituting in “virtual props” to provide an interactive, reduced-touchpoint photo experience.  Eliminating props also helps our photographers and assistants maintain recommended social distances.

In addition, we have developed a QR Code Photo Retrieval system, eliminating the need to email or text message photos.  Again, with the goal of reducing touchpoints, this process allows participants to digitally access their photos — in real time — simply by scanning a QR Code on their personal device and typing in their name.  In fact, we’ve integrated the system into the Travel and Adventure Shows’ Connected Marketplace.  Participant’s flash their barcode from their show ticket, which we scan at the beginning of the photo experience.  Scanning permits us to tag their photo with their name for instant retrieval — and gives the booth sponsor the ability to seamlessly follow up with participants through the Connected Marketplace.

With the 2022 Travel and Adventure Show Schedule announced — and with US Event Photos returning to provide this experiential marketing photo powerhouse — we will determine which shows continue with virtual props and the QR system moving forward, based on both show management and recommended CDC guidelines.

2020 will forever be known as the Year of the Pandemic.  After Bassmasters, 2020, all of our in-person, live events were cancelled.  In 2020, we saw months where staying six feet apart was the new staying together.  Face masks became the go-to fashion accessory.  Everyone caught up on their favorite television shows, binge watching endless hours.  There were no in-person live events.  Virtual photo booths replaced our traditional green screen photo experiences.   Mike started a new, local podcast.

It was March, 2020 when photographer and US Event Owner Mike Gatty returned from  the Bassmaster Classic.  He’d just completed his assignment for Yamaha, an experiential photo marketing booth at the world’s largest bass fishing contest in Birmingham.  It was the fifth time Mike had provided the green screen photo booth for Yamaha.  Complete with a 12′ dock and two replicas of the world record largemouth bass, the photo set lets Mike reproduce the cover of Bassmaster Magazine. Participants, with a little Yamaha branding, are featured front and center with their “record catch”.  When Mike’s flight landed, as he was collecting the luggage from the belt, he glanced up at the news.  The world was shutting down.  It would remain shut.

Now it’s 2021, and the Bassmaster Classic was as busy as ever in Fort Worth, TX .   In fact, record crowds swarmed the Yamaha experiential photo booth.  Clearly, the world is reopening.

A daughter and her dad on the “cover” of Bassmaster Magazine for Yamaha at the 2020 Bassmaster Classic in Birmingham.