Dream Have Photopass

[kbridgem]

I was trying to see if the Dream had something like Disney Worlds Photopass. I would love to prepay for this if they do. Does anyone know?

Thanks!

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I was trying to see if the Dream had something like Disney Worlds Photopass. I would love to prepay for this if they do. Does anyone know?

Thanks!

No Photopass onboard any of the ships. Shutter is the photography concession onboard. They take pictures, and you can purchase individual ones, photo packages (10 pictures, 20 pictures, or a CD with all photographs taken by the Shutters photographers).

 

[kbridgem]

Do you know if you can prepay for photo disk?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Do you know if you can prepay for photo disk?

Sorry, don't know. I don't think so, you'd have to check the "Onboard Gifts" tab on the DCL site to see if it's one of the things you can pay ahead for.

A suggestion is just put extra money in your onboard account before the cruise. The charges at Shutters (as well as everywhere onboard) go on your onboard account.

 

[CaskPeg]

Shutters will start taking pictures of you and your family once you enter the ship. They then put all pictures taken on bulletin boards near their venue on the ship for your selection each day. Depending on the size of ship you sail with...sometimes this can take awhile to find your groups picture(s). There are plenty of photo ops on the cruise! All purchases go to your portfolio that you pay by the end of the cruise.

 

[lizabu]

Does anyone have an idea about prices?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Does anyone have an idea about prices?

This is from a 7 night cruise, the CD price varies depending on length of cruise.

 

[cris0809]

Just don't expect the same quality as Photopass in the parks. Honestly I've seen some terrible, terrible photos taken by those "photographers". To be fair there have been some good ones too. In our eight cruises I have purchased ONE 6x8 photo and that's only because the crew member that took the same one with our camera didn't turn out. It was our first Castaway Club reception.

I really hate how they make you feel forced to use them as a photographer. We've gotten some very rude responses when we ask to use our camera around the characters.

Maybe we should just our Nikon and tripod and take our own pictures with the timer. Harumph.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Just don't expect the same quality as Photopass in the parks. Honestly I've seen some terrible, terrible photos taken by those "photographers". To be fair there have been some good ones too. In our eight cruises I have purchased ONE 6x8 photo and that's only because the crew member that took the same one with our camera didn't turn out. It was our first Castaway Club reception.

I really hate how they make you feel forced to use them as a photographer. We've gotten some very rude responses when we ask to use our camera around the characters.

Maybe we should just our Nikon and tripod and take our own pictures with the timer. Harumph.

I don't know who you were asking about the photos with the characters, but the Shutters personnel cannot use your camera to take pictures (their business is selling their pictures). There is generally a character handler at the character locations that will use your camera, but they certainly are not photographers so no guarantee that the pictures will be very good.

That being said, except for 1 picture on one cruise, the pictures taken with our camera while the Shutters photographers were taking their pictures have all been very good.

 

[cris0809]

Yes I know the Shutters people can't use my camera, there have just been times where it has been a problem due to handlers doing crowd control, or other things that are their job - and after I've waited in line for 20 minutes there is no one to take a photo. Don't like wasting my time.

I stand by my assessment of their quality being hit or miss. Some are great, some are just ok, some are terrible. We find them to be much less consistent that the quality of the (Disney-employed) Photopass staff. I have not enjoyed this contracted out thing one bit.

 

[jahber]

Yes I know the Shutters people can't use my camera, there have just been times where it has been a problem due to handlers doing crowd control, or other things that are their job - and after I've waited in line for 20 minutes there is no one to take a photo. Don't like wasting my time.

I stand by my assessment of their quality being hit or miss. Some are great, some are just ok, some are terrible. We find them to be much less consistent that the quality of the (Disney-employed) Photopass staff. I have not enjoyed this contracted out thing one bit.

It sounds like you've really had some bad experiences with character photos. We've never run into a situation like you're describing, where a CM was not right there available to take a photo. There was always at least one person herding cruisers in the lines, in addition to the character handler. All of our cruises have been fairly recent and on the new ships, so maybe they've made improvements since your experience? Or maybe it's just luck of the draw.

 

[Meghatron]

Yes I know the Shutters people can't use my camera, there have just been times where it has been a problem due to handlers doing crowd control, or other things that are their job - and after I've waited in line for 20 minutes there is no one to take a photo. Don't like wasting my time.

I stand by my assessment of their quality being hit or miss. Some are great, some are just ok, some are terrible. We find them to be much less consistent that the quality of the (Disney-employed) Photopass staff. I have not enjoyed this contracted out thing one bit.

My experience has been the exact opposite of yours. In Disneyland/DCA the Photopass photographers are amateurs, with no sense of framing or lighting, and there is absolutely no line control or cutoff. I won't get in a line with my kids until I ask the CM handler how long the character has been out and when they're going on break or leaving the spot completely.

On all of our DCL cruises the Shutters staff has been professional in manner and ability and there's always a CM to cut off the line so that you know you are guaranteed a picture if you're in that line. I shudder at the $15 cost for a mediocre Photopass download and don't even blink at $350 for an entire week's worth of Shutters photos. But I guess all the good photographers were on the Wonder the last two years, and Disneyland can't bother to hire real photographers for the parks?

 

[clarkshel]

My experience has been the exact opposite of yours. In Disneyland/DCA the Photopass photographers are amateurs, with no sense of framing or lighting, and there is absolutely no line control or cutoff. I won't get in a line with my kids until I ask the CM handler how long the character has been out and when they're going on break or leaving the spot completely.

On all of our DCL cruises the Shutters staff has been professional in manner and ability and there's always a CM to cut off the line so that you know you are guaranteed a picture if you're in that line. I shudder at the $15 cost for a mediocre Photopass download and don't even blink at $350 for an entire week's worth of Shutters photos. But I guess all the good photographers were on the Wonder the last two years, and Disneyland can't bother to hire real photographers for the parks?

I totally agree with this. We where on the fantasy last month and all out Shutters pictures where excellent. We then went to Disneyworld the following week and the Photopass pictures where terrible. There was blurry pictures, some with my head cut off. Very mediocre. Photopass used to be better. When we went to DW three years ago. The photo pass pictures we got where excellent. You are right, the parks seem to have amateurs working there. The photographers on the ship seemed to be very professional.