Daughter's first pre-school photos - to buy or not to buy?!

ilovebargains99

andygb wrote: »

Something that a lot of people do not care about (the majority) or know about.
It is no different to ripping off/scamming anything, and all it will achieve is to push more businesses to the wall.
Hopefully the photographer will have plastered their copyright mark right over the centre of the images.

One would hope they will not be "plastering their copyright mark right over the centre of the images" as I am hoping to display the photographs I have ordered from them in my living room

This_Year

ilovebargains99 wrote: »

One would hope they will not be "plastering their copyright mark right over the centre of the images" as I am hoping to display the photographs I have ordered from them in my living room

just need to copy the copyright mark onto your children's faces then it would be ok

zeebie

We were able to get ours in CD format. Would you ask the school to get a photographer that does that? Too late for this time but might save some other parents the cost!

I'd probably buy them though, DD looks so cute in hers and we hardly ever get professional photographs done.

quinechinoise

flutterby_lil wrote: »

Our school company does a disc for £20 so you can buy that and print what you like.

ilovebargains99 wrote: »

These are with Temp3$t and the USB equivalent is £40.50.... seems quite steep to me, but I am a skinflint, and haven't had any experience with these things yet

Both my kids' schools use Tempest too. I buy the 3 photos on a USB stick option and print them myself. (If you're really desperate for the traditional cardboard photo frames, you can actually buy those yourself elsewhere on the internet.)

I see it as a nice memento of the early (school) years and a tiny USB stick takes up hardly any space. If I get bored of the photos on my wall (or want to update them) then I don't feel bad about binning them as they only cost a few pence in paper and printer ink.

Jo67_2

You only get what you pay for. Usually school photographers use professional labs and the quality of the photos, colour and light balance is far superior to the photos you get on the high street. Max Spielman's is bucket cheap but you will only get bucket quality.

As for scanning and printing prints, this is against copyright law and no reputable high street printer should print them. If you want the image to print with a copyright waiver then you must buy the digital image on CD if you don't want to infringe the copyright law.

I have tested a digital image from a school photographer - I got one of their prints then took the digital image to Asda, Tesco and Snapfish. The high street ones had colour casts or grey shadows on them but the one from the photographer was lovely and bright white with thick good quality photo paper.

Their prices might seem steep but don't forget they are professionals and have to earn a living...you can iron shirts yourself but if you send them out to be ironed it'll cost you!

MERFE

I find with school photos whilst the quality of the paper may be second to none the photographer doesn't have the time to get the children to relax and look natural so their school photos tend to be a bit rubbish. I only buy them if they are good. Last year I bought the class photos because they were really good and different but this year they didn't look right. I've better photos of my kids I've taken on my camera just because they look natural.

will.i.amnt

too many shills for photographers ITT

flashnazia

I wrote to Tempest to ask why they charged so much (akin to daylight robbery I thought) and they didn't even reply!

Cooper18

I guess I'm labelled as a shill because I defend the photographers right to hold on to their copyright. Whatever.

My best friend is a semi pro. So pays mortgage with "proper job", but runs photography business to pay for some extras. Her camera insurance is more than her car insurance. Her public liability insurance and indemnity insurance are a fortune also. She pays extra on her car insurance to cover it for business use. To turn up at your wedding she requires all this, puts petrol in her car, stands around all day making you look and feel fab, goes home and sits for hours processing your images. She out sources her printing. And she does a good job. She deserves to make a profit - and she doesn't. So by all means steal her photos, you'll just make her stop even trying to make money and go back to shooting for fun. Then you can go and pay a proper pro even more. People think because they have a camera on their phone that taking pictures is easy and cheap. Its not an easy way to make money. For what it's worth, Venture are overpriced, and over pushy. But that's what you'll be left with when you push the little guys out of business.

Simon_Pert

Don't forget that the school receives commission on the sales to spend for the benefit of the children. Which can be upto a third of the cost.