Instant Sharing

My wife and I recently started a small photo booth business. We built our own open-air photo booth from scratch and are now trying to add more features to our product to keep up with the competition. Basically, we have a Nikon D3200 DSLR tethered directly to an iMac that is running Aperture 3. Using full screen view, our customers were able to use a remote trigger to take their own shots and see them displayed on the nice iMac monitor. This was version 1.0 of our product and it has worked great. After the events, I would sit with my wife and upload all the good photos to an online gallery and to facebook for our customers to share and use as they please. Now we want to take it to the next step and allow instant, onsite sharing.

The way I envisioned it working was to build a separate “share station” for customers to go to after they are done taking pictures in front of the booth. At this station, I would have two iPads mounted up with the pictures they just took already available for them to browse, email or share on a social networking site. So far, the only way I could make this work is by using PhotoStream and iCloud… I have a version of the photos sent to Photostream on Aperture and then I have the iPads running the “photos” application and boom, the pictures show up.

I guess I don't really have a major question, I am just looking for tips/advise on how to make this setup better. Photosteam's sharing features are pretty minimal which has been a snag and photostream doesnt really allow me to organize the photos event by event, so I'm constantly deleting the previous event's photos from the stream before the next event.

I'm still very raw when it comes to photography, aperture and even Apple technology. We had a good idea and have been running with it.

Any advice?

Thanks!
Ryan

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