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 02:57 am
July 26th, 2008 at 03:01 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.
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July 26th, 2008 at 04:22 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...
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