Senior Pics - is it this outrageous everywhere?

paying3tuitions
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:14:49 +0000

I’m thinking perhaps the photography industry has to go very upscale to compete with so many good home cameras that people now own, as well as their tendency to take digitals and keep them forever inside their computers.

Our older kids’ h.s., which was poor and rural, just had those guys come in who line up the entire class and provide separate throw-away combs for each kid (to confuse the lice). Maybe $30 and the results showed it.

The younger is in an upscale suburb, but even so they let you slide by with the rock bottom “graduation package” from Sears Portrait Studio, which nonetheless cost around $120 if I recall correctly.

But there must be a market for the photographers you are seeing, Rachacha. Isn’t it crazy!

When I’m very old (not just old) and thinking back on raising children, I will envision an endless line of people with cheesy smiles, all holding out their hands for my money. Each newborn hospital picture was free (one sweet wallet sized lumpkin), but after that everything changed.