My oldest niece will be a senior this year and they 'have' to get their school pictures done by a professional. Cost $500 - 1500. Unreal. My sister opted for the cheapest package at $500. My niece was complaining because she bought the cheap package. I cannot believe this. $500 for pictures... for a year book. This is insane. My niece wanted my sister to pay another $80 to add her baby pictures. How do parents afford this crap and why do they do it? Why do they allow the schools to dictate these expensive extras?
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$500 for pictures?
July 26th, 2008 at 03:57 am
July 26th, 2008 at 04:01 am 1217041280
That is rather unreal about the price of pictures! I don't like to spend the $9.00 per child for a simple class picture. I think this year we are skipping this altogether and buying one yearbook for $15 that will have each child's class pictured in it.
July 26th, 2008 at 04:22 am 1217042539
July 26th, 2008 at 01:44 pm 1217076244
July 26th, 2008 at 01:56 pm 1217076962
July 26th, 2008 at 05:22 pm 1217089346
I was just thinking something similar. With the ease of at-home "professional photography," pictures are not something I really see the point of. (My dad has a professional camera and we have pictures worth thousands if we had paid retail). BUT of my mom friends, about 50% (literally) are now "professional photographers."
Two of them were just bugging me and it was the same thing. Like their cheapest package was like $500. Puh-leeze. A lot of my non=photographer friends do multiple sessions a year. I Was just sitting here wondering how these people afford it. (Then again a lot of them are going into foreclosure - seriously. There is some connection there).
On the other hand, I Was thinking that photography was one saturated market!!! Suddenly everyone is a professional...
July 26th, 2008 at 08:28 pm 1217100489
July 26th, 2008 at 10:34 pm 1217108089
There will also be:
fall homecoming (football season).
possibly winter homecoming (held during basketball season, yes even at some schools that have traditional fall homecomings).
senior prom (a photo stage will be set up).
boyfriend / girlfriend's senior prom (sometimes a couple attends different high schools).
graduation day itself (yes there will be a pro photographer shooting that); team or music ensemble photos (when I was a senior I was in choir, show choir and marching band).
possibly Girl Scout Gold / Boy Scout Eagle (this doesn't have to coincide with senior year, but in our case it did.)
July 27th, 2008 at 03:40 am 1217126443
July 29th, 2008 at 12:40 pm 1217331654
Here's what happens: each high school sets its own policy for yearbook photos. Some will say "any photographer you want, but here are the specifications for yearbook pose." Some will say "here is the photographer you must use for your yearbook pose."
Now, what you pose for, or purchase, beyond the yearbook pose is, well, obviously, up to you.
But, the yearbook pose is just the start of senior year pictures. The other "events" I listed in my post had nothing to do with yearbook shoot : )