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Post by LAM88 on Mar 20, 2015 13:31:56 GMT
Are they just personal professional pics that people have taken during their senior year or are they actually used for the yearbook? If they are for the yearbook, is everyone everyone expected to go out and hire their own photographer and do a photo shoot, is it done through the school, or do some just go to their local photo shop/Sears/etc. and have a regular portrait taken? I'm probably aging myself here, but do girls not do the senior yearbook portraits anymore with the black v-neck robes? I kind of liked those.  |
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Post by luvnlifelady on Mar 20, 2015 13:34:07 GMT
My DD is a senior. We had to use the school's photographer (Lifetouch) for the Yearbook photo. We did not buy any of those. We still need to schedule a separate photo shoot with our own photographer for her senior portraits. Some people then use those for graduation announcements or other types of things at year end.
I don't remember having mine done but I was the youngest of 5. Mom was probably over it by then. Ha ha.
ETA: The girls could wear what they wanted within reason. Also, if you were buying the ones from the school, they allowed outfit changes.
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Post by Merge on Mar 20, 2015 13:36:30 GMT
It varies from place to place. Some schools use the professional individual pics in the yearbook; some require the pics to be the ones taken by the company the school hires. Around here they're usually done summer before senior year or very early in the fall.
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Post by Zee on Mar 20, 2015 13:39:02 GMT
When I had mine done years ago, and DD just a few years ago, the school had a contract with a company for the yearbook photo. That was free, but you could schedule additional poses and buy extras at that time if you liked.
I don't know what black v-neck robe pics you're talking about. Never seen those, not even in my grandpa's 1942 yearbook. Maybe it's regional, and not an "anymore"type of thing?
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Post by LAM88 on Mar 20, 2015 13:43:38 GMT
I don't know what black v-neck robe pics you're talking about. Never seen those, not even in my grandpa's 1942 yearbook. Maybe it's regional, and not an "anymore"type of thing? I'm not describing it well. It's more of a drape than a robe, like these pics. I found these online and have no idea who they are so I hope I'm not doing anything wrong by posting them here: ETA - not sure why the pics aren't showing up. Let me find another. ![]() ![]() |
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Post by liya on Mar 20, 2015 13:44:17 GMT
At my kids school (DS is a senior and DD graduated 4 years ago) most seniors go to a studio (of the family's choice) and do a "shoot." These are used for the year book. You can also do them yourself or have a friend or family member do the photos and submit them yourself but the school does not set them up. The senior photos all look different but there are guidelines the school has set up (I can't remember them now; the photos were due back in November.)
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Post by Zee on Mar 20, 2015 13:47:10 GMT
I don't see a link on my end, but I think maybe I vaguely recall seeing those in the past, but forgot about them. Wasn't done in my area, apparently, because as I said the girls in grandpa's 40s yearbook (and my MIL's from the 60s, etc) didn't have that. The girls were wearing blouses or sweaters.
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Post by anxiousmom on Mar 20, 2015 13:49:35 GMT
Are they just personal professional pics that people have taken during their senior year or are they actually used for the yearbook? If they are for the yearbook, is everyone everyone expected to go out and hire their own photographer and do a photo shoot, is it done through the school, or do some just go to their local photo shop/Sears/etc. and have a regular portrait taken? I'm probably aging myself here, but do girls not do the senior yearbook portraits anymore with the black v-neck robes? I kind of liked those. And don't forget the pink feather boa...  My son graduated last year. This is the way I understood the who senior pictures thing-the school does the standard tux photo for the year book and the more artful photos were done by the family. At our school, those photos were only used if the family additionally purchased a yearbook ad and included the photo with it. The photos also were used for invitations, announcements and the like. We didn't do the private ones, only the school ones. My son didn't care, and I will embarrassingly admit that I could not have afforded it if he wanted them. |
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Post by melodyesch on Mar 20, 2015 13:51:07 GMT
Are they just personal professional pics that people have taken during their senior year or are they actually used for the yearbook? If they are for the yearbook, is everyone everyone expected to go out and hire their own photographer and do a photo shoot, is it done through the school, or do some just go to their local photo shop/Sears/etc. and have a regular portrait taken? I'm probably aging myself here, but do girls not do the senior yearbook portraits anymore with the black v-neck robes? I kind of liked those. I graduated in '87 and we did those v-neck drape things. And for the yearbook, I think they are still done in my town in Alabama. That, to me, IS your senior portrait for girls and then boys wore suits. Now the big thing is to have a huge photo shoot for seniors to use for whatever they want. I guess just to mark the occasion. But back in the day, the only senior portraits people did were for the yearbook and you bought those. |
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Post by YooHoot on Mar 20, 2015 13:53:23 GMT
I know the drapes you are talking about...1990 here. My dd's still get "school photos" but they are basic and for their school IDs. Separate "senior" shoots are done on their own.
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Post by librarylady on Mar 20, 2015 13:57:19 GMT
When my son graduated, the school selected the professional studio and everyone had to go there to have the photo made. The family could purchase or not. Our son was in a suit (a requirement for the males) and I think the studio also had a robe and cap to use for some of the poses. Females had the v neck robe on for the photo.
Those were the only photos used in the yearbook for senior photos.
It makes a nice "souvenir" photo for the occasion.
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Post by LAM88 on Mar 20, 2015 13:59:17 GMT
Here we go. These are the black drapes I used for my senior pic many moons ago.
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Post by bigbundt on Mar 20, 2015 14:01:27 GMT
At my school, we had to go the school the summer before graduation to get the yearbooks pictures taken from the yearbook photographer. I think we had a two week span to schedule and go? Guys in tuxes and girls had a kind of off the shoulder, velvet wrap sort of thing. They also took pictures of everyone in graduation robes and caps but those didn't go in the yearbook, they were just available for purchase. A lot of people also did senior pictures but those were done completely separate from anything school related. We went to a photographer and went through a bunch of poses and clothing changes. My photographer did the shoulder wrap/graduation robes pictures too but they were for the family, we couldn't submit them for the yearbook (even though they were usually better). Everyone had to take a yearbook picture and some bought the extended package with robe pictures and didn't bother with a second, outside photographer senior session. Those were their official senior pictures and what they used to include in invitations and such. I know my ex didn't bother with the second set of senior pictures so all he had were the ones taken by the yearbook photographer. I know schools do it differently but that is how ours worked.  |
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Post by utmr on Mar 20, 2015 14:01:29 GMT
Back in the early 80's we had fuzzy blue drapes. They were used for the yearbook. My pictures were hideous and they use them at every reunion as name tags. The only good thing is that people take one look at my hideous name tag and say "wow utmr you look great". The benefits of an awful picture. :-)
Nowadays they have a yearbook picture and then separate professional pictures to mark the event.
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Post by Tamhugh on Mar 20, 2015 14:06:12 GMT
The drapes were never done in my area, but I have seen them and I know some schools still use them.
Our high school has two approved photographers for the yearbook photos. They will do a free session for that. You can get more photos done. There was a few years where you could go wherever you wanted but the pictures started getting a little out there. We did use one of the approved photographers for our boys but they were very expensive. He did a beautiful job, and it was a once and done thing, so I didn't mind.
My nephews' school does the tuxedos and drapes. You go into the school over the summer and have them done. It makes for consistency. Then the kids can go where they want for their more personal pictures.
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Post by myshelly on Mar 20, 2015 14:20:01 GMT
As everyone else has said, it's highly regional.
Here, yes, you have to have your drape (girls) or tux (boys) picture taken for the yearbook. It's done by the company that does school pictures, but not at school. It's done at their studio.
No one calls that their senior portrait/pictures though. Your senior portraits are a modely type photo shoot done by a professional photographer. People use them on graduation announcements/invitations. They're displayed at the graduation party. They are given to family and friends. They are framed and displayed by your parents and grandparents.
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Post by scrappinmama on Mar 20, 2015 14:20:09 GMT
I graduated in the late 80's. We had the drapes, but ours were faux fur. Faux fur. In August. In Southern California. Under hot photo lights. I almost fainted from the heat.
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Post by janeinbama on Mar 20, 2015 14:29:18 GMT
Drapes are done here also, some schools do graduation gown pictures with no hat.
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Post by scorpeao on Mar 20, 2015 14:35:58 GMT
drapes are done here as well. It's through Lifetouch. They also do the cap and gown pictures. Many people also hire a photographer and have pictures done that capture the child's personality. I'd love to do that, but money is an issue...especially senior year! So, my dd only had the Lifetouch photos done, and I bought those. Hopefully my dd doesn't need therapy from being deprived senior portraits.
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Post by cmpeter on Mar 20, 2015 14:36:24 GMT
I graduated in '84. For the yearbook picture the girls wore the black drape and the boys a tux. We went to a studio but it was free. You could order/pay for extra pictures if you wanted them. Many kids also do a separate photo shoot with a photographer picking their own locations and outfits.
DS graduated last year. He could use the free Lifetouch picture taken at school and wearing his own clothes or submit one we had taken by an outside photographer. We submitted our own. Their were guidelines for that photo re: how close of a headshoot, size, etc. All the photographers in our area are familiar with those and ours took a couple shots just for the yearbook.
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Post by maryland on Mar 20, 2015 14:37:06 GMT
The school takes photos for the yearbook. Some of the boys and girls get pictures taken on their own. They can be expensive! We didn't get them for my daughter, but we will probably do some this summer because if we don't, she will always complain about not getting them when every other boy and girl in the senior class got them!
The problem we have is I already take tons of pictures of the kids. And she is never happy with any pictures, so we will be paying a lot of money, and she will complain about the pictures. The professional ones are expensive and with college coming, we don't have extra money. Actually, we could have probably gotten them if we didn't have to send all college applications overnight mail because daughter is a procrastinator! That was expensive!
And the kids don't trade them with friends like we did in high school. So the only ones getting the pictures would be grandparents.
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Post by LAM88 on Mar 20, 2015 14:42:32 GMT
And the kids don't trade them with friends like we did in high school. So the only ones getting the pictures would be grandparents. I remember what a big deal trading pics was in school but you're right, the kids don't do it at all anymore. Wallets don't even have the clear plastic compartments to carry a pic anymore. It's a waste for us to even buy wallet sized pics because the only people who carry them are my DH and FIL. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2015 14:43:22 GMT
I'm probably aging myself here, but do girls not do the senior yearbook portraits anymore with the black v-neck robes? I kind of liked those. You are dating yourself...I graduated in 1990. My school had those velvet off the shoulder drape things for the official yearbook photo. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 20, 2015 14:44:17 GMT
We didn't have the drape thing, we wore what we wanted. Everyone just used the pics from Lifetouch or whatever company the school contracted with. That was back in the olden days though, LOL. Now I think most kids hire a photographer of their choosing, wear whatever they want with several outfit changes and often the pics will be outdoors or have 'lifestyle' type backdrops or props that reflect the kid's interests (music, 4H, sports, cheer, dance, etc.). I have one nephew graduating this year so I'm sure I'll get a chance to see what he did at his grad party.
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Post by LAM88 on Mar 20, 2015 14:48:26 GMT
I'm probably aging myself here, but do girls not do the senior yearbook portraits anymore with the black v-neck robes? I kind of liked those. You are dating yourself...I graduated in 1990. My school had those velvet off the shoulder drape things for the official yearbook photo. DATING myself!!! That's the word I was trying to come up with and I couldn't find it, so I settled for aging and it was driving me nuts!!! |
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Post by monicad on Mar 20, 2015 14:52:21 GMT
I was the sucker mom who bought all the photos of ds. We took two changes of clothes and they provided the "tux." We did get to choose which tux picture we wanted. In my defense, the pictures turned out really good and I didn't have any recent ones of him other than what I've taken. I'll have to for through this again in two years so we'll see what happens then. I might do outdoor photos is my daughter is willing, but there's no way my son would have cooperated.
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Post by perumbula on Mar 20, 2015 14:57:54 GMT
Our school still does the drape/tux pictures for the seniors. They do those early senior year and then the student has until December to turn in another "casual" picture (which translates into the fancy professional portraits at a studio or in an outdoor location) and a baby picture. So, yes, each senior gets three pictures in the yearbook. Luckily, I can take my kids pro pics myself. Those pictures are freaking expensive. |
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Post by underwatermama on Mar 20, 2015 14:59:27 GMT
Drapes? I was in HS in the early 80's and I think we would have rioted had they made us do that.  I'm assuming the same a cmpeter here since I thnk we are in the same district, but we haven't been through the process yet. I do, however already have a photographer picked out for senior pics. Sadly, I'll probably be the only one excited about the whole thing, given that I have boys... |
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Post by tracylynn on Mar 20, 2015 15:05:10 GMT
You could do whatever you wanted for Senior pictures. Most everyone I knew went to a photographer. Then you had until a certain date to submit a picture for the yearbook (it was very early in the school year). We did not use the school photographer for Senior pics.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2015 15:13:56 GMT
Here, it's both. Of the 5 high schools in my town, each yearbook have their own requirements of what is allowed in the yearbook picture. One actually has specific measurements as in the face has to be a certain size, the top of the head has to be x distance from the top of the picture, etc. Another only says no gang signs and special effects. Another says head shots only, no props allowed. The Catholic high school requires a certain dress code and I believe they have a special day just for those yearbook pictures. Some have submission deadlines that are as early as October while the average is the Friday before Christmas break. I've seen some students just use whatever photo that was taken by the studio that does all the other school pictures simply because they have to have the picture taken for their student IDs and the school will use whatever they have on file.
Many photographers do shoots where you can have up to 4 outfit changes, two locations and will do at least one acceptable yearbook submission shot. It can be pricy with some sessions going for as much as $500. Thankfully, I'm decent with a camera and ex knows a couple people that do photo sessions on the side. I can see both of my boys doing whatever it is I make them do.
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