Senior Portraits

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Do you want to be dead to me now?

I've seen those displays at the mall, but I don't recall seeing senior pictures among the offerings. Recent high schoolers among our family/close friends haven't done it. (Never heard of signing pictures, either. You sign yearbooks.)

I wonder if it's a regional thing that hasn't spread here yet.

Hmm, if you ever see just individual teenagers in pictures in those, those would probably be the senior pics. We all took them and passed them out. But you got your senior pics done at the beginning of the school year (so you could put your head shot in the yearbook) and the yearbooks at the END of the school year (or beginning of the next ). IT was more about writing a note to friends than anything. Midwestern tradition? I'm not sure.

Well I could be dead to you, but then who would set the time on your VCR?

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Hmm, if you ever see just individual teenagers in pictures in those, those would probably be the senior pics. We all took them and passed them out. But you got your senior pics done at the beginning of the school year (so you could put your head shot in the yearbook) and the yearbooks at the END of the school year (or beginning of the next ). IT was more about writing a note to friends than anything. Midwestern tradition? I'm not sure.

Well I could be dead to you, but then who would set the time on your VCR?

Every year when the school had the photographer do yearbook pictures, we had the option to buy a package, which usually included tons of wallet-sized photos. We gave them to our closest friends, signed the back of these, and usually wrote long notes. This was in New England in the late 80s.

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Senior pics are the norm here. You usually did like 4 outfits and a variety of backgrounds/poses. When you went to get your pics taken, you made sure to get a headshot because that would be your yearbook photo. You also made sure you got plenty of wallets because those were signed and passed out to your friends. Must be a midwestern thing.

We always wore our uniforms (Catholic school), as the pics were taken at school, for 9-11. I remember my freshman year photo being really tragic, as I had tried a trendy hairstyle that wasn't suited to my fine hair. For senior photos, we had to make an appt with the specified photographer at the studio. No location shots, no props. We wore one outfit, one head and shoulders shot (maybe two for the photographer to choose from). No proofs or choices.

I have to say, some of the contemporary photos I see these days are really goofy. The "double" photo featuring a primary image with a cloud-trimmed secondary image "floating" at the top, the awkward head in a hand shot, the glamour shots with hooker makeup, the unnatural pose in a natural setting, etc. The photographer who did my acting head shots a few years ago does some really good work for senior portraits, but it's a good $250 for a sitting. Why does a senior photo need four outfits and a three-hour shoot?

All this talk of pictures made me mosey on over to awkwardfamilyphotos.com. If you have time to waste, I highly recommend it for some entertainment.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

I have to say, some of the contemporary photos I see these days are really goofy. The "double" photo featuring a primary image with a cloud-trimmed secondary image "floating" at the top, the awkward head in a hand shot, the glamour shots with hooker makeup, the unnatural pose in a natural setting, etc.

Yeah, these are the kinds of things I'm talking about that can make the yearbook look like a trainwreck.

Don't get me started on the "photos on tombstones" thing.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Yeah, these are the kinds of things I'm talking about that can make the yearbook look like a trainwreck.

Don't get me started on the "photos on tombstones" thing.

It was only ever the headshots that went into the yearbooks though, the rest were pure vanity