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Posted on 8/18/23 at 9:24 am to Gaston
[We still buy some 5x7s of the sports photos…the ones where they make them not smile.]
What a badass you and your kid must be.
What a badass you and your kid must be.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 9:26 am to Gaston
Usually... Unless they are just bad ( my wife has refused to buy some because they were just odd) . buy then partly because I like the progression over the years ( but I do get that from my phone/Amazon photos) but... It's partly because my daughter asks me to and it's not worth the disappointed look
Posted on 8/18/23 at 9:31 am to Tiger JED
How else will my coworkers know my son is a stud if I don’t have the 5x7 hanging in my cube?
Posted on 8/18/23 at 9:35 am to Gaston
Nope but we buy yearbooks every year
Posted on 8/18/23 at 9:36 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Are yearbooks still a thing?
ETA: just looked on my son’s desk and he has a 2020 and a 2021…so I guess so.
ETA: just looked on my son’s desk and he has a 2020 and a 2021…so I guess so.
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 9:38 am
Posted on 8/18/23 at 9:44 am to Klark Kent
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when in reality, it costs the photographer / company nothing extra in time or effort to produce digital copies of the photos they took.
You’re right, they should just give them away for free.
Or maybe, just maybe, the revenue from selling the digital photos are built into their pricing model and they would actually lose money if they gave the digital copies away.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:22 am to Gaston
We do. As I’ve got into photography I find these things cringe and such a scam. Especially sports photos, you pay for a package of an individual and team photo. $40+ dollars when it’s only $5. Get out there and actually take pictures of action and memories.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:27 am to Gaston
We buy (1) 5x7. My office has one of those super HD copy/scanners. And we distribute as needed.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:30 am to momentoftruth87
I can’t take action shots, I’d just rather watch. I do appreciate when others do though…and we’ve been really lucky with that.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:33 am to Gaston
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I can’t take action shots, I’d just rather watch
Me too. The stuff I’ve gotten into is action and event photography, mostly sports. It’s fun but I miss a lot of actually enjoying it myself.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 10:35 am to Gaston
Why can't there be a package with nothing but 8x10s or 5x7s?
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:03 am to MikeBRLA
settle. I’m not saying they should give digital copies away for free. I understand they have a business to run. But the markup for a digital package is a bit steep from what we’ve experienced. 2-3x the price of physical copies for digital copies doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:18 am to Klark Kent
Digital in a sense should cost 2x more than the main print, imo. Example being they are buying a digital copy to make cheaper prints, multiple copies. That’s fine, but I assume they’ll make more than 2 prints at my main size selling, so I charge them twice that.
Again, I don’t consider them (school picture takers) real photography since they show up and take portraits. I don’t even consider myself a photographer even though I have credentials for large events, been published and make money. I also have more expensive gear, can take 1k photos and edit half in the next day. There’s people who blow my work out of the water and I respect that.
Again, I don’t consider them (school picture takers) real photography since they show up and take portraits. I don’t even consider myself a photographer even though I have credentials for large events, been published and make money. I also have more expensive gear, can take 1k photos and edit half in the next day. There’s people who blow my work out of the water and I respect that.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:25 am to momentoftruth87
fair enough.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:35 am to Klark Kent
You also learn how many ppl don’t give a frick and the will print with watermarks
I was at a random event and some dude came up to me and asked if I was who he thought I was. He said he follows my work, works at a Walgreens developing photos and has turned away many from trying to print with my logo/watermark.
This is a hobby so I’m not expecting to get rich but it is frustrating with the time I put into it, travel, equipment, time, editing, etc. when I hear about it.
I was at a random event and some dude came up to me and asked if I was who he thought I was. He said he follows my work, works at a Walgreens developing photos and has turned away many from trying to print with my logo/watermark.
This is a hobby so I’m not expecting to get rich but it is frustrating with the time I put into it, travel, equipment, time, editing, etc. when I hear about it.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:41 am to Gaston
No, because inevitably one of my kids will smile like this in the picture.
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We have 50 photos of them in their school uniforms looking far better than this goofy forced awkwardness
We have 50 photos of them in their school uniforms looking far better than this goofy forced awkwardness
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:43 am to Gaston
We get ours for free 
Also we pay 12K in tuition
Also we pay 12K in tuition
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:47 am to Gaston
I’d buy the smallest pkg so I have a yearly school photo. I would not worry about giving them to relatives, only the size pkg I needed. Relatives can buy their own, take their own or I can send them a photo taken from my phone.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:49 am to bad93ex
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since we have to give family members a photo as well
This is still a thing?
But the cheapest package possible and just make copies or something. Can you just buy 1?
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