Momof3Labs
08-20-2006, 08:43 PM
I know that we talk about different photo places every so often, and this is a new one that opened near us. They had a $9.95 deal for a bunch of pictures, no sitting fee, and we wanted a pic of my parents grandkids (3 of them, including mine, almost 4yo, 11mo and 6mo).
It was an awful experience. As bad as going to Picture People (at least around here). We aren't going back.
The store was laid out such that I could barely get my single stroller to the back area. They were running about 20 minutes behind for our appointment (in and of itself, I can deal with that). We got this photographer who was so SLOW with the camera that he missed most of the truly good shots (a woman was posing our kids and making them smile). And they kept on pushing pics of the kids alone even though we told them all that we wanted was a good pic of the three kids together (and we did NOT want to waste precious moments on individual pics before the first meltdown).
Then, halfway through, they said that the camera broke. And their other extra camera was broken, too, so we had to wait for the photo session to finish next door and the only other camera to become available. My brother was encouraging us to leave, but we were all there, kids dressed, and were still hopeful that we'd get just *one* good pic of them together.
They started doing pics again of the kids alone, talking about doing some photo montage. NO, we want a pic of the kids all together! Please, let's just keep trying for that!
So, now, we've been there about an hour. DS2 is starting to get hungry and fussy, so there's not much more we can do. I sit down to nurse him, and get called over mid-feed to look at photos. The photographer keeps pushing the individual shots of the kids, putting them in our "favorites" even though we are saying noo, nooooo, noooooo! He wants to show us special effects, SIL and I say that we don't like them. He says, well I'll show you anyways. When he selects B&W, I say to SIL, gosh all that effort in choosing outfits that coordinated - out the window!
For the group pics, this guy is picking photos with DS2 red-faced and crying (and other similarly awful photos) and saying, that is a pretty good pic! Sheesh! There was one with DS2 trying to latch on to his cousin's elbow - that was pretty funny but not worth the price to just get that shot. We did find one half-way decent pic and ordered the $9.95 package in that pic. In 10 minutes, they were printed up and we were finally out of there (1.75hrs after our appointment time).
The one good part is that our parents and grandparents were just thrilled today to get a pic of the three kids together.
So, in sum, we won't be going back because of the crappy photographer who wasn't used to dealing with kids, the heavy sales pitch and refusal to listen to what we wanted to get out of the session, the long, slow process, and the faulty equipment. Kiddie Kandids continues to have our business!!
HTH someone!
It was an awful experience. As bad as going to Picture People (at least around here). We aren't going back.
The store was laid out such that I could barely get my single stroller to the back area. They were running about 20 minutes behind for our appointment (in and of itself, I can deal with that). We got this photographer who was so SLOW with the camera that he missed most of the truly good shots (a woman was posing our kids and making them smile). And they kept on pushing pics of the kids alone even though we told them all that we wanted was a good pic of the three kids together (and we did NOT want to waste precious moments on individual pics before the first meltdown).
Then, halfway through, they said that the camera broke. And their other extra camera was broken, too, so we had to wait for the photo session to finish next door and the only other camera to become available. My brother was encouraging us to leave, but we were all there, kids dressed, and were still hopeful that we'd get just *one* good pic of them together.
They started doing pics again of the kids alone, talking about doing some photo montage. NO, we want a pic of the kids all together! Please, let's just keep trying for that!
So, now, we've been there about an hour. DS2 is starting to get hungry and fussy, so there's not much more we can do. I sit down to nurse him, and get called over mid-feed to look at photos. The photographer keeps pushing the individual shots of the kids, putting them in our "favorites" even though we are saying noo, nooooo, noooooo! He wants to show us special effects, SIL and I say that we don't like them. He says, well I'll show you anyways. When he selects B&W, I say to SIL, gosh all that effort in choosing outfits that coordinated - out the window!
For the group pics, this guy is picking photos with DS2 red-faced and crying (and other similarly awful photos) and saying, that is a pretty good pic! Sheesh! There was one with DS2 trying to latch on to his cousin's elbow - that was pretty funny but not worth the price to just get that shot. We did find one half-way decent pic and ordered the $9.95 package in that pic. In 10 minutes, they were printed up and we were finally out of there (1.75hrs after our appointment time).
The one good part is that our parents and grandparents were just thrilled today to get a pic of the three kids together.
So, in sum, we won't be going back because of the crappy photographer who wasn't used to dealing with kids, the heavy sales pitch and refusal to listen to what we wanted to get out of the session, the long, slow process, and the faulty equipment. Kiddie Kandids continues to have our business!!
HTH someone!