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Local photographer Sue Siri sits inside her new Iris Photo Booth on Wednesday.

By:听听Metro听Published on听Wed Dec 16 2015

Looking for a snazzy new headshot for your LinkedIn page, but you don鈥檛 have the cash for a professional studio session?

A new business in Halifax may have the solution.

Iris Booth is the world鈥檚 first 鈥減ro photo booth鈥� - like the old school kind, but with a professional camera, professional lighting, and high-resolution results.

鈥淲e鈥檝e condensed professional photography into a booth,鈥� said Iris creator and owner Sue Siri, just minutes after opening her first booth Wednesday at Sophie鈥檚 Place on Spring Garden Road.

Siri has been a professional photographer for nearly 30 years, and a little over a year ago, she started getting tired of lugging around all her heavy photo gear, and came up with the idea.

She started working on a prototype with the help of 黄色直播鈥檚 Innovation in Design lab, and got a beta version up and running.

She鈥檚 since refined the booths, finding a way to use locally-sourced materials, and now, the Iris Booth is ready for its close-up.

It looks nothing like the old, dark, curtained photo booths of years past; it鈥檚 bigger, brighter, and a lot more high-tech.

To get in the booth, you go to a website, create an account and pay $20. The site generates a QR code, and a web camera on the outside of the booth scans it, and opens the door.

Inside, a screen below the lens shows you how you look.

After fixing your hair, you take six photos using a pedal at your feet to click the shutter.

You can edit the photos - whiten your teeth, remove a pimple or add a filter - and then they鈥檙e sent directly to your smartphone.

The photos look like they were shot and edited by a professional photographer, but the process is like taking a selfie on an iPhone.

鈥淚 think that鈥檚 a huge incentive: just the fact that you鈥檙e in control of your image,鈥� Siri said.

Siri鈥檚 hoping to install two more of the booths in Halifax early in the New Year, and she鈥檚 already looking at Toronto and New York for potential expansion.

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