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[33girl]

What about black & white? One of my friends is a photographer who works primarily in black & white - and her pictures are gorgeous and make everyone in them look gorgeous. If you have pictures from an "arty" setting like this, are they acceptable? Or should you skip them and put a plain old color photo by Mom in your packet instead?

[BAMA2]

All the girls from my kids school just use a smaller version of their senior pictures. They do them in regular clothes (no gowns) so they just look like very nice, tasteful pictures. It really never occurred to me to use anything else.

[annabella]

Originally Posted by 33girl

What about black & white? One of my friends is a photographer who works primarily in black & white - and her pictures are gorgeous and make everyone in them look gorgeous. If you have pictures from an "arty" setting like this, are they acceptable? Or should you skip them and put a plain old color photo by Mom in your packet instead?

Fine line. As ree-xi said, this is a way to recognize a girl when she walks through the door. So if a black-and-white photo is too high contrast, at a strange angle, only showing part of the face, etc, it doesn't translate to easily recognizable.

On the other hand, when you're watching a slideshow of a couple hundred headshots, or brushing your teeth to see posters of pnms staring back at you, a black-and-white shot really stands out amid a sea of color portraits.

I say if it looks exactly like you and shows your full face, go for it. If your rec writer went to your school, it never hurts to ask their opinion on which photo to use.