Holy cow! Three hours! We paid extra to have some taken outside, and I think the total time was maybe 40 min, and that includes the time she spent changing. The more outfits, the more it cost. You must use the official photographer if you want your picture in the yearbook. That was 5 min. and $30. If I had known beforehand how unhappy I would be with the pictures, I would have gone alsewhere. I was not at all impressed with the school's photographer. I told dd, when we got the proof book, that with a good photographer, it should be really tough to pick the pictures because you like them all. In our case, it was tough to find ones we liked. Either she was posed awkwardly, or stuff looked like it was growing out of her head, or her smile was crooked, etc. Even on the website, where the photograoher has posted some pictures of other kids, I can find very few I like. I don't have dds pictures yet, but will post when I get them. We ended up buying a la carte rather than a pkg. 84 wallets were $160, two 5X7S, which had to be the same pose, were $88, and an 8X10 was $96. I also bought a framed 4 panel black and white panel photo, with 4 different poses, which I think was the most reasonable price of the bunch-$89. All this was on top of the $30 for the yearbook picture, plus the session fee, which I think was about $150. OUCH!!! My wallet hurts.
And we are STILL here. (Hoping to leave next week). Her proofs should be ready in two weeks.
