disneyfanatic84
Earning My Ears
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- Feb 28, 2015
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We loved it when we traveled with a large group. However don't think we are doing it when it is just the 3 of us not sure yet though
We always do one and I think it's worth it. We end up with over a couple hundred for a 7 day trip. Some of the photographers are great and will pose you for great shots and others will snap one picture and that's it; so if you don't think the photographer got good shots, hit that spot again another time. Some are college students, some just "regular" people, and some are actually photographers. We found one who was working the Mexico to Italy half of World Showcase one morning about 3 years ago and ended up sort of following him (not on purpose). We posed for him in a couple of countries and found out he was a "real" photographer. By the time we met up with him in Italy, he did a huge photoshoot of us -- 30 or 40 pictures -- because he wasn't busy, and those are some of the best photos of my husband and me outside of our wedding. (If you see Frank, he's worth waiting in line for!) There have been others that have gotten my normally reserved husband to be goofy and silly, and there's always one that can make it look like my boys actually get along!
The ride pictures are so-so in my opinion and the character meal pictures vary. The ones we had from Tusker House with Donald Duck were good, the ones from Park Fare and 'Ohana were ok (but those don't have characters in them). We don't do many (if any) character meet and greets, but when you do, those are added to the Memory Maker too, and you can add a character signature stamp to the picture during the editing process afterwards. I thought that was pretty cool!
I'm so glad to be reading this. We're going for our first trip with my stepson and in-laws in June and it will be nice to get my MIL out from behind the camera and still assure her there will be an epic ton of pictures to make an album from the trip.Sounds like a great value for the five days we'll be there.
Question: are there ever photopass photographers on the resort grounds or just the parks? Just curious.
You can end up with as many pictures as you want! Even enough to keep a MIL happy!By the way, sometimes you find them in out of the way corners, so keep your eyes open. We had photos taken one time at the exit of Big Thunder -- great shots with the cars going by in the background! We also have some great ones from somewhere between Liberty Square and Adventureland -- Tom Sawyer Island is the background. It was our Christmas card photo that year. You can look up maps of where they usually hang out and print them to take with you if you think that will help your MIL put the camera down for awhile too.
Photographers are only in the parks (including the waterparks, if I remember correctly), which is too bad, if you ask me. It would be fun to have them at the resorts, but I can see how it would probably cost Disney more than they would make. There used to be Photopass information desks (back when they were called Photopass -- we haven't done a big family parks trip since 2013, so I'm a little rusty on this stuff) at some of the resorts where you could get information and buy a Photopass, but I don't know if they're still there and they didn't take pictures.
Thanks! I was a little nervous about the idea of sending someone the money and then allowing them to have access to all of our photos as well. I'm going to try to squeeze this into my Disney budget! I'd love to be able to do it.I would be wary of those shares. I did try one and it was so disorganised that I just eventually paid for ourselves. I also heard after that disney shut down the shared account