Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 10:59     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
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
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 10:52     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
We do them about every 18mo, I like to alternate the season.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 10:37     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
Once every 2-3 years
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 09:51     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
Anonymous wrote:I think it's low class.
Do your homes look like they were decorated by a stager, too?


Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 08:41     Subject: Re:How often do you get professional family photos done?
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
Post 01/04/2022 08:36     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
I think it's low class.
Do your homes look like they were decorated by a stager, too?
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 08:35     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
Never. What do you do with all these professional shots?
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 08:25     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
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
Post 01/04/2022 08:22     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
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
Post 01/04/2022 08:16     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
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
Post 01/04/2022 08:12     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
Anonymous wrote:Yearly for our Christmas cards


+1
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 07:32     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
Yearly for our Christmas cards
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 07:24     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
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
Post 01/04/2022 07:16     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
Mini sessions 2x a year, once in the spring, once in the fall. It’s about $300 a year and includes all photos.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 23:01     Subject: How often do you get professional family photos done?
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.