Senior Portraits

[33girl]

As a former yearbook staffer, I can't imagine how awful the yearbook must look with such a variety of pictures. We could get ones done by the "cool" photog for handing out but everyone had to have their pic taken by the photog the school hired or it wouldn't be in the yearbook.

You have to remember this is the generation whose parents were told that professional photos every 1-3 months were as essential as vaccinations. I was a spoiled only child and other than school pics, my parents only got professional photos taken TWICE. The 3 year old ones are ok, but the 6 month old ones make me look like Jabba the Hutt. I like Mom33's picture taking skills better, thanks.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by 33girl

As a former yearbook staffer, I can't imagine how awful the yearbook must look with such a variety of pictures. We could get ones done by the "cool" photog for handing out but everyone had to have their pic taken by the photog the school hired or it wouldn't be in the yearbook.

You have to remember this is the generation whose parents were told that professional photos every 1-3 months were as essential as vaccinations. I was a spoiled only child and other than school pics, my parents only got professional photos taken TWICE. The 3 year old ones are ok, but the 6 month old ones make me look like Jabba the Hutt. I like Mom33's picture taking skills better, thanks.

Senior pictures are normal in WNY - I went to the photographer that did my brother's and then later (in 2006) we went back and had a family photo done, pictures of just my mom and dad, and my brother and his (future) wife had engagement photos done the same day.

Most seniors had a headshot done for the yearbook, then a bunch of wallets. I think I ended up with 4 good ones, 2 different outfits. As part of my package they gave me a little book that I could put my friend's senior portraits in and there was space on all the pages where those people could sign. I think there were 10 slots or so so it was mostly the really "close" friends.

The yearbooks looked fine - the photographers generally sent one (chosen by the student) to whatever school and usually cropped any that weren't a headshot into as close to one as they could get, so it was pretty uniform. Because this was SOP for most schools in the area, they had it down to a pretty fine science and the 3 years I was on the yearbook committee we never once had a senior with no portrait (unless they transferred in mid-year - nothing you can do about that).

Seniors also had the option to have pictures taken with the rest of the student body, free of charge, if they didn't want to or couldn't afford a session of their own. The school photographers generally made an extra effort for seniors, giving them more shots so that they'd get the best possible picture.

My parents never took me for "baby" pictures.

[KSUViolet06]

I'll admit it, I was the oldest and my parents were really excited to have me. So I had pics taken every 3 months-ish until I was two (then only twice a year after that). Once my brother was born, then they changed to only doing Easter and Christmas, lol.