Interactive Props

Oh Snap! Smile offers a budget-friendly $725 booth for New York events, but the sky is the limit with its custom options. The company works with clients to create unique backdrops and props that incorporate brand imagery, plus quirky setups like their bed photo booth. They can also include social media integration.

Yolo Photos has transformed a working 1965 Volkswagen Beetle into a photo booth. Guests climb into the backseat to take photos, where the ceiling is covered in colorful fabric daisies. The standard package costs $1,200 and includes 35 miles of travel from Boca Raton, Florida. The car’s interior and exterior can also be custom-branded for events

The Bosco offers video confessionals and photo booths with unique functions like a booth that creates images that appear in 3-D when viewed with 3-D glasses. The animated GIF function takes four pictures, then prints a physical copy and combines the photos into an animation that instantly uploads to the Web. The Bosco is available to rent throughout the world, and the company can design custom options, too.

Rotobooth is powered by a hacked rotary phone that takes a series of pictures after the user dials his or her cell phone number. The user is texted a link to the images, which he or she can choose to download or share via social media. The New York-based company is in the process of expanding to cities like Chicago, San Francisco, and Austin.

NYC Photobooth debuted their new "Haunted Photocrypts" earlier this year. Ideal for Halloween events, the booth features a ghoulish exterior and a variety of theme-appropriate backgrounds. Inside is a touch-screen interface and an interactive talking skull. NYC Photobooth services New York City, but can deliver anywhere from Boston to Baltimore for an additional fee. Basic luxury booth packages starts from $2,500.

Social Booth offers enclosed and open booths with accessories that can be custom-printed or wrapped with graphics and logos. The open Party Booth setup (pictured) can accommodate more than 15 people; photos can be printed on site, or guests can use nearby tablets to share photos online. The enclosed Duo Booth seats two people; printed photos arrive through an opening in the side of the booth, and guests can share photos online via a touch-screen. The company has specialists based in Charlotte, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, and the booths are easily shippable to other locations. Basic packages start at $850.

Polite in Public's art department works with corporate clients to create custom backdrops, props, graphic overlays, and photo effects. The company’s trademarked BeautyBot camera captures photos that are instantly retouched to magazine quality. For corporate clients, the Friend.Vu platform is a social sharing system that lets guests receive and share their images digitally. The company has local setups in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, and Boston, but the compact system is available to travel anywhere.

Photoboothless recently launched Instaboothless, a photo system that prints out physical copies of photos taken on Instagram at an event. Guests take photos on their smartphones, then tag them with a specific hashtag which automatically uploads them to the Instaboothless printer. Designated event photographers also roam the crowd taking pictures of guests with the Instagram app and sending them to the printer. The prints include space for custom graphics and messages. Pricing starts from $650, and the system is available nationwide.

Mobile Photo Booth has transformed a trailer into a photo booth known as the "Grande." Available only in Minnesota, the booth comes equipped with built-in speakers for music and can accommodate groups of 10 or more at a time. Rental fees range between $700 and $1200 for three to six hours, and include unlimited picture strips and digital images.

Pod Pix's curved, stand-up style booths can fit nine people at a time. For an additional fee, the digital photo booths can also include email and Facebook integration, and a video mode. Photo strips, backdrops, and the exterior wrap can all be customized with text, images, and other graphics. Available in the tristate area and parts of Pennsylvania, the units include an LED display that plays a slide show of images in real time. Pricing varies, but starts at $299 per hour with a two-hour minimum.

ShutterBooth rents booths across the U.S., with offices in more than 40 cities. The photo booths can be branded with specially designed ShutterSkinz, and video booths are also available. The company’s "Shutter and Share" technology allows guests' photos to be shared instantly via email and Facebook. Packages vary by market, but usually start around $795 for four hours of unlimited photos.

Boothomatic's eco-friendly, collapsible digital photo booths have iPad integration that allows guests to upload photos to Facebook and Twitter. Multiple-choice or open-ended questions can also be programmed into the system prior to the event. The responses can then be collected, along with the guest's email address, so the program can double as a tool for market research and product launches. The standard package costs $2,000 and includes delivery within one hour's drive from New York City.

Just looking for an old-fashioned photo booth without all the bells and whistles? The Majestic Photobooth Co. offers vintage-inspired photo booths reminiscent of those from the '50s and '60s. A three-hour package ($995 in Atlanta and Nashville; $1,195 in N.Y.C., D.C., and Philadelphia) includes unlimited photo strips, an attendant, and an online gallery. Custom photo strip logos, prop packages, and custom posters for the booth exteriors are also available.