I was just wondering...

[MKhead72]

Has anyone ever, (or ever thought of), hiring a private photographer to take photo's of your vacation ? The reason i ask is, I have the opportunity of doing just that. The price we were quoted was $400 full day or $200 half day. Meet at the park of your choice in the am, spend the day with him, pay half upfront, let him edit photo's, puts up to 200 shots on a disk, when disk is ready, pay remainder and receive disk in mail. What do you think....would you be all for it or worried a little ? One thing is for me, I know who he is so I don't think I would have to worry much.. And he has shown me cd's that he has already made for different people, and the pics. are great !!

 

[ragtopday]

That sounds like an awful lot of money for what really amounts to a luxury item. It's your choice, and if you have the money and you know the guy then go for it, but it's not something I ever even thought of before, and now that I have (since you brought it up! ), not something I would ever personally do.

 

[NeverlandClub23]

Since non-Disney professional photographers are not allowed to shoot professional pictures at Disney parks I don't know what the ramifications would be if they caught you while it was happening (or what would happen to your money that you paid).

 

[sydneysmom]

personally, I wouldn't do it. I think you'd be "playing to the camera" all day instead of just having a fun day. You're going to constantly be thinking "would this make a good shot", or " how do we look in this shot".

I think it's expensive for what you're getting when you could pre-order Photopass for $ 99 and get some terrific Disney shots. ( or ask the Photopass people to use your camera to take pics). just my opinion....

 

[a1tinkfans]

personally, I wouldn't do it. I think you'd be "playing to the camera" all day instead of just having a fun day. You're going to constantly be thinking "would this make a good shot", or " how do we look in this shot".

I think it's expensive for what you're getting when you could pre-order Photopass for $ 99 and get some terrific Disney shots. ( or ask the Photopass people to use your camera to take pics). just my opinion....

I agree. I could afford it, but why bother really. Photopass is easier, you get great shots and its a no brainer for us.......

 

[scrapquitler]

Has anyone ever, (or ever thought of), hiring a private photographer to take photo's of your vacation ? The reason i ask is, I have the opportunity of doing just that. The price we were quoted was $400 full day or $200 half day. Meet at the park of your choice in the am, spend the day with him, pay half upfront, let him edit photo's, puts up to 200 shots on a disk, when disk is ready, pay remainder and receive disk in mail. What do you think....would you be all for it or worried a little ? One thing is for me, I know who he is so I don't think I would have to worry much.. And he has shown me cd's that he has already made for different people, and the pics. are great !!

It might be nice to have all those pictures, but I think I would feel a little weird about having someone tagging along with us like that all day long...would you bring him to the character meals with you, for example? it might be kind of awkward (is that spelled right, it looks wrong, but spell check says its right? LOL).

$400 seems like a huge amount of money to me, but I tend to be cheap.

 

[GOOFY4DONALD]

Personally I couldn't do it. Vacation pictures are supposed to be candid. The enjoyment from these shots is the fact that you are catching a family member a little off guard. Some shots are sweet, some are funny and some make my b*tt look too big but they are all memories of our vacation. Now we did use the photopass to get a few portrait style pics but that is it. Its a vacation not a wedding. I am not Brangelina or Bennifer or whoever. Although the idea sounds great getting beautiful portraits to remember the big vacation but most of the joy is the pics that are randomly captured.

 

[Irin997]

Last year when we went on our Outer Banks summer vacation my BIL & SIL, plus my fiance's cousin, his wife, and their kids paid a pro-photographer / friend of the family who lived in NC to come for the day and do photo shoots of each family.

She charged very little and they loved the photos that results. Not sure I would do it cause we get great family photos on our last night there but they enjoyed it.

 

[Crystal824]

We did this sort of last year. I was 30 weeks pregnant when we went and I have a good friend who is a photographer in Orlando. She met us at the Grand Flordian and did a half hour or so session with us. We were trying to mainly get some pregnancy photos. They came out great. She did it for free. I don't think I would ever hire her or anyone else to follow us around on vacation though. That seems like too much work to keep trying to get the right pose, etc.

 

[eyor44]

I think this is a great idea. To have someone who is not part of your group taking candid shots all day. That way everyone is in the pictures. There is always one person who has the camera and takes all the pics but is very rarely in the pictures themselves. And for all day, I'm assuming 8-10 hours, the price is reasonable. I do think TS meals would be a little weird unless they just ate with you.

If I had the money to burn or if it were a really special occasion, I'd consider it. I would have loved to have someone else taking pictures all day of my DD the first time she did the BBB. Everyone was so nice to her all day, bowing to her carriage (stroller), calling her princess. The expressions on her face were priceless. But I was pushing the stroller and couldn't catch a lot of it.

 

[disneygirl 17]

I think this is a great idea. To have someone who is not part of your group taking candid shots all day. That way everyone is in the pictures. There is always one person who has the camera and takes all the pics but is very rarely in the pictures themselves. And for all day, I'm assuming 8-10 hours, the price is reasonable. I do think TS meals would be a little weird unless they just ate with you.

If I had the money to burn or if it were a really special occasion, I'd consider it. I would have loved to have someone else taking pictures all day of my DD the first time she did the BBB. Everyone was so nice to her all day, bowing to her carriage (stroller), calling princess. The expressions on her face were priceless. But I was pushing the stroller and couldn't catch a lot of it.

This - I think it could be great if done the right way. I would probably do 2 half days at 2 different parks rather than 1 day at 1 park. I would totally ignore the camera.
Now that all being said I wouldn't do it every trip - but I would do it for a special trip or a one time trip. Lets say it was a family reunion - I would totally want to do it. It would be a once in a lifetime type of trip and I don't want to spend the entire time looking through my camera.

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

I think this is a great idea. To have someone who is not part of your group taking candid shots all day. That way everyone is in the pictures. There is always one person who has the camera and takes all the pics but is very rarely in the pictures themselves. And for all day, I'm assuming 8-10 hours, the price is reasonable. I do think TS meals would be a little weird unless they just ate with you.

If I had the money to burn or if it were a really special occasion, I'd consider it. I would have loved to have someone else taking pictures all day of my DD the first time she did the BBB. Everyone was so nice to her all day, bowing to her carriage (stroller), calling princess. The expressions on her face were priceless. But I was pushing the stroller and couldn't catch a lot of it.