How often do you get professional family photos done?

[Anonymous]

Once per year, because it is the only way I can get any photos with all 4 of us. I have a good quality camera (not just my cell phone) and love photography as a hobby, so I’ve taken tons of pictures of our young children, plus some with them and DH…but, if I want to be in them as well, I have to pay!

My parents NEVER did family photos when I was a child (I’m an only). Lots of pictures of me, but not many of me with one of my parents, and none of all 3 of us. I regret that.

[Anonymous]

Mini sessions 2x a year, once in the spring, once in the fall. It’s about $300 a year and includes all photos.

[Anonymous]

We have done this about every 18 months for the past 4 years. Prior to that, only my wedding. But we found a local mom who does it almost as a hobby and charges only like $200 and we get 60+ digital prints. She lives in our neighborhood and it's all pretty casual and easy for us and the kids. I love the pictures we get.

[Anonymous]

Yearly for our Christmas cards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yearly for our Christmas cards

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would rather see an informal real shot then a posed thing with a backdrop.

Hilarious - you think professional photography means JC Penney’s or Olan Mills?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would rather see an informal real shot then a posed thing with a backdrop.

Hilarious - you think professional photography means JC Penney’s or Olan Mills?

NP. I’d rather see an informal real shot than a fake casual pic of my family strolling through a field hand in hand. Actually, I’d rather do an Olan Mills shoot than that, too.

[Anonymous]

Once a year. I wish I had more photos of my family from growing up… my mom didn’t like to be photographed. There are many years where it seems like zero photos were taken of us as a family and only a crappy school photo of us kids. We actually just did an extended family shoot - I have like three pictures total with my late grandparents and they were all taken on the same day. They lived with us!

[Anonymous]

Never. What do you do with all these professional shots?

[Anonymous]

I think it's low class.
Do your homes look like they were decorated by a stager, too?

[Anonymous]

when the kids were younger we went every other year. Then the photographer retired and we have gone very sporadically ever since. DH takes good pictures anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's low class.
Do your homes look like they were decorated by a stager, too?

[Anonymous]

Once every 2-3 years

[Anonymous]

We do them about every 18mo, I like to alternate the season.

[Anonymous]

Maybe once every few years. Why are the pictures? Seriously people are so obsessive and excessive with photos. Do you really need an expensive annual photo shoot to see how your kids grow and change in addition to the likely hundreds-thousand cell phone pictures you take of them yearly? No one wants these. Your kids are likely going to want no more than ONE album spanning their entire childhood. This is such a waste