Thank-you for stopping by and thank-you for coming to the Untitled Show. Were it not for the Untitled group I would not have an outlet to display works such as Photomaton. Your patronage at the event continues to fuel me as I'm sure it does the other artists.

Photomaton took approx 1060 photos over the course of the evening starting shortly before the opening of the show and running until shortly after the close of the show. Of those 1060 photos, 346 are what I consider of interest. By interest meaning not a shot of an empty booth. Tar files (for us unix geeks) and zip files (for the rest of us) are available for download. They are approx 16-17 megs and contain all 1060 photos. In addition, the directory in which all 1060 photos are stored in is also linked.

Couple of things:

Quite a few are blurred. This is a function of the technology. I am considering my options for future improvements.

If your photo is not in the gallery one of two things happened: You managed to sit down between snapshots (they were being taken every 15 seconds) or I managed to miss it when going thru and building the list of "interesting pictures". If you find that I missed it let me know and I'll add it (I think I did a pretty good job of finding them all). If you managed to sit inbetween takes then feel good you probably provided someone outside the booth with a moment of entertainment. I'd rather try to get all of the ones with people than forcing you to click thru picture after picture of the empty booth.

That said, I'm soliciting suggestions for improvement. Or, if you have a complaint I'm all ears. Here are the improvements I'm looking to make:

Take pictures every 10 seconds, I have plenty of harddrive space for a 4 hour period

See about changing the sound and doing away with the warning beeps. I think a few people heard the beeps and thought their picture was taken.

Upgrading the camera technology. I like the quality of some of the pictures but it's fairly unforgiving with movement (blurs). I fought with the right amount of lighting, any brighter in the booth and the faces were washed out (and it was still a problem). It's a catch 22 with that camera. Unlike most webcams the camera & software work more like a real camera.

Setup an interface so the person presses a button and then has their picture taken, just like a real booth. I'm also considering adding some novelty printouts though that's down the road (not your normal photobooth printout by any means).

Whatever I do I'm going to try to keep the results B&W.

I'll post additional technical details about how it all works. Likewise, I'll post some of the interesting information I came across regarding photobooths in doing research.

With any luck this first, appearing to be successful, run of Photomaton will spawn future versions and/or upgrades.

Cheers,

Sean...

photomaton@rimboy.com