We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Femster Sonde. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Femster below.

Hi Femster, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to start by getting your thoughts on what you are seeing as some the biggest trends emerging in your industry.

Have you been to an event where all guests are sitting around waiting for the hosts to arrive or waiting at a wedding during cocktail hour at the bar waiting for the Bride & Groom to arrive at the reception? If you have ever experienced either scenario or something similar… you understand the dire need for photo-booth services to keep your guests happy, interested and engaged during periods of downtime. Some of the biggest trends that we are seeing in this industry include the almost overnight popularity of the 360 photo-booth as well as the use of the virtual photo booth.
The 360 photo booth is really a video booth that takes about 120 frames per second through a rotating camera set-up. These booth rentals are great ways to entertain event guests with fun and trendy moving photography. Typically music and really cool props are added to make the video a really fun and unique way to leave your guests with a memory or live souvenir from the event. Real-time videos are usually distributed to the guest via text, email, QR code or web-based link..
Additionally,we noted that during the pandemic, while most folks were still under lockdown. One of the biggest trends to come on the video production scene was the use of Virtual Photo-booths. A virtual photo-booth is similar to a regular photo-booth except that it is used online. It does not require any download and can be used on smartphones, zoom calls etc.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Femster Sonde and I am the owner and operator of FemsterImages Productions and Spixebooth Photobooths. I have an engineering background and obtained degrees from Morgan State University and University of Maryland. I became interested in Videograghy/Photography when I was a small child, helping my father capture family events. Videograghy/Photography has always been a passion for me. I created FemsterImages Productions for the love of Photograghy/Videograghy and subsequently created Spixebooth which specializes in Photobooths.

Femsterimages Productions has been in business over 10 years and provides professional service and delivery of quality prints. We also provide Photobooth services for weddings, birthday, anniversary parties, baby shower, bridal shower, class reunions, bar/bat mitzvahs, holiday parties, graduations, charitable functions, corporate events and much more! Spixebooth customarily provides open air photobooths, enclosed photobooths and 360 photobooths.

Our standard photobooth packages include a customized photo layout – 4×6 or (2) 2×6 strips, props, backdrop, unlimited photo session, online gallery that can be password protected, social media sharing (WiFi required), animated GIFs, professional & friendly on-site attendant and Unlimited fun. We pride ourselves on high quality images, creative props, and exceptional customer service.

Check us out at femsterimages.com instagram.com/femsterimages_production
www.spixebooth.com
www.instagram.com/spixebooth

What’s been the best source of new clients for you?

Referrals and Word-of Mouth is the best source of our new clientele. Our clients create testimonials and reviews and then post them to various sources.

Our experience has proven that providing good customer service always leads to loyal life long customers who look out for us by referring us to their friends and families.

Can you open up about how you funded your business?

I had a vision and shared the vision with my circle of support. I knew that this industry was in demand and would pay off in the end. Therefore, I actually asked most of my family and friends to please invest in my vision however I did not succeed in convincing anyone to assist me in the acquisition. As a result, I self-funded the acquisition of my first photo-booth.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.spixebooth.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spixebooth
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spixebooth
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/spixebooth
• Youtube: youtube.com/@spixebooth
• Other: vimeo.com/spixebooth