School photos.......really bad

nej

We always bought the ones from junior school, and have just ordered the ones from her 1st year at high school.

BUT!

It's twice as expensive as the ones she had done in primary school.
And - get this - we had to order and pay BEFORE they took the picture! It had to be handed into the photographer on the day of the shoot. So I've written a cheque (which has now been cashed, incidentally) and I've not even seen the picture yet!

What a rip-off!

frivolous_fay

My mum stopped buying my photos at secondary school because no matter how much make-up I plastered on in the queue, it was impossible to hide the zits...

The stigma didn't warp me for life... much :rotfl:

oops_a_daisy

hm71 wrote: »

I have yet to see my dd's photos from school this year but I remember last year getting my sons last one and the proof was awful!!!! It was so distorted I thought it was shlurf from Goonies :rotfl: I was busy moaning about the quality etc... when someone told me they morph them to stop people creating the own at home using photoshop- its easy to enlarge, take out the word proof etc... but almost impossible to unmorph it. its a means to ensure parents pay for them.

hmmmm wonder if that is why she looks like she has 2 inches too much forehead :rotfl: :eek:

mishmash

My Youngest son decided to pose a funny face for his first school photo at secondary school. He did crossed eyes and the most gormless of grins, he thought it was very funny. Come to think of it he looked very like the pictire of that school caretaker they kept showing on the news who sent the bombs in the post.:eek:

While it was a funny picture and I bought it because it was so funny, we have since learnt that this will follow him through school, as they do not take another one.

He is year rep and his school picture is on the notice board, often in the school magazine and I take great delight in telling him that if he ever gets famous or this will be the picture that will appear.

I have refused to buy others though that have been really horrid.

Mish

juliejim

If you really did want one for school sometimes the photographers come back to cover off the children who were off school that day so it might be worth enquiring about that and then if they are coming back ask for it to be taken again

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Janepig

Kimberley wrote: »

The thing with school photos is that if anything should happen and a child goes missing, the police like to use these school photos as identity. Obvioulsy though with digital cameras you can also do portrait style photos so maybe you can create your own like others have said, but it is nice to have school photos for each year as they grow, even if to show future husbands and children

Dear god, the prophet of doom is off again!!! :rolleyes:

I've always bought DD's photos (she's 4) but in fairness hers have always been good (except the black and white one in nursery but I was told by everyone I showed it to that I was being a bad mum if I didn't get it!!). The thing that makes me feel bad is that DD went to day nursery and had her first photo a month after she started there so she'd have been about 7 months, and has consistently had photos taken since. Poor DS had to wait until he was about 18 months for his first (and his only one so far).

DD's having her second school photo tomorrow so we'll wait and see how that turns out. There is one company that she's had photos with that do a really reasonable package (about £16 I think) which is exactly the same as the expensive package but without the horrible cardboard frames that don't get used anyway. I also bought last year's class photo because I think it's nice for DD to look back when she's older. We also had a DVD at the end of term which the teachers had filmed throughout the year of all the activities they did with the kids, and also a cd of all the photos they'd taken. But obviously we had to pay for it!

Jxx

Nenen

Oh this thread is bringing back some memories!!!!!

As I'm in my 40s, when I was growing up families rarely had decent cameras for portrait photos and hence relied on the school photographer to take one each year. As far as I recall (through my green tinted spectacles ) all my friends' parents bought all their school photos. Hence I felt rather an outcast (to say the least) when my parents refused to buy any of mine. Their 'excuse' was that as my Dad was a photographer by profession he was perfectly capable of taking said photos of me for far less cost (although in practice that rarely happened).

Now, as an adult I can totally understand how MSE that was but, as a child, when the school insisted I have one done and then bring said picture home knowing I would only to have take it back to school and be the only one in the class not buying was a severe blow to my pride!

One year... joy of joys... when I received my photopack ready to bring home it had 'REJECT - Free of charge' stamped across the bottom of each photo... as the lighting was wrong. I was so delighted to be able to keep my school photos I had one on display in my bedroom!

To the OP... as your dd has told you she doesn't actually want you to have the photo I guess she'll escape the 'trauma' I suffered and I think you should take your lead from her!

Peakma

their always really crap from my kids school,and so expensive,they only take one so its just a glorified snap shot,they make no attempt to make the kids smile or anything.
So I just scan them so I have a record of it!

Terry_Tibs

I used to work for a school photography company , the problem with not buying is many schools actually think that parents who buy lots of photos love and care for their children more than those who don't. Its wrong IMHO , but its a fact.