My mom and I took the kids to get their pictures taken yesterday. Little Sister’s birthday is coming up and we hadn’t done their pictures in a while, so I figured it was time. We always go to a local department store studio – they do a great job, and we always have a coupon for $3.99 per sheet of photos. Not a bad deal at all, as long as I can control myself.
Since we’re also planning to get Christmas pictures taken next month, I figured that I’d buy pics of maybe six different poses, maybe 10 sheets total. The photographer took 22 shots, and darned if they weren’t all excellent! The kids were just so cute in each of the pictures. Mom and I managed to narrow it down to 13 shots, and ended up getting one sheet of each of them. I would have bought them all if I could have though. We did get the “smiles by wire,” so at least we’ll have all the poses electronically.
(Let’s not even talk about the time I decided to get the $7.99 “one pose” package – they still take all 22 shots!)
Anybody else have this problem? How do you pick? Do you buy a lot?
I think you should buy as many different poses as you can possibly justify. Then distribute them liberally throughout your family. That way, in the year 2029, we won’t be reading LS’s birthday post to her brother, and BB’s response: “Not that picture again, LS!”
I pay a bit more and get a cd with all the pictures. It gives me all 100 or so pictures that they’ve taken as well as rights to print any and all of them.
I go to Sears with the kids, once a year in August. There, we do their “school” pictures, family pictures, kids pictures, girls and mom, boys and dad, kids only, you get the picture . . . a ton of poses.
I buy just enough to get the CD with reproduction rights for a reasonable price, then do my own composites, reprints, Christmas cards, etc. for a fraction of the price. Plus I have all of the poses available for my use.
I figure that I come out ahead on the deal because then for school pictures I buy the cheapest package ($6) so I get the class composites.