<p>ok so my school wants senior portraits of seniors this year to put in the yearbook, but i really dont see the point of doing this, especially if i have to go to another nearby city (not very far, ~25 minutes) to take them.</p>
<p>is there really any point in taking them? what are your thoughts on this</p>
<p>Hm... I think it's nice just to have in the yearbook because our yearbooks usually turn out really cute and it's nice to have especially your senior year one.</p>
<p>For our yearbook each senior (there's only like 45-50) gets her own page to put w/e pictures quotes etc she wants, and there's our senior portrait on it also so that's what that's for.<br>
It looks nice in the yearbook so I don't mind but I could do without the changing of the outfits especially since only the one type of outfit is allowed for our yearbook pic</p>
<p>^My school does the same thing (except we have 120 guys in each graduating class). When we got them (during graduation rehearsal), pretty much all of us sat down and just paged through them--it was really cool, the sight of 100 guys sitting down in a gym looking at yearbooks isn't something you see often.</p>
<p>Really they're just so your parents can have nice photos to send to your relatives while they glow with pride that their child is graduating.</p>
<p>our school has a section for each class, and the senior class section has a regal looking lavender background with their senior portraits. underneath each of their senior portraits, it says an inspirational quote that theyve chosen. also, wedged in between the senior section is a sub-section with their baby pictures :).</p>
<p>i heard that the photographers take like 20 shots so that you can choose the best looking one. and that they'll do retouching for extra $.</p>
<p>yeah we each have a 20 min session at our school's photographer's studio... we're doing extra stuff this year like different outfits, inside/outside, etc. which is kind of odd but i guess if it looks decent it never hurts to have a few nice pics of yourself around. im just worried im going to look/feel ugly that day and it will all be ruined. haha</p>
<p>We have to do them ourselves. Which totally unmotivates me. So chances are, I just won't. -_-;</p>
<p>Our senior portraits are done through some professional studio... they come to the high school at the end of August for a couple days. I have to schedule an appointment :/</p>
<p>Almost everyone at my school gets them done at the beach. I did mine at the local beach that I practically grew up on when I was younger. They all look really nice and it looks good in the yearbook as a whole</p>
<p>For us, they just came to out school in September...we took a few inside (traditional sitting down) and a few outside in front of the statue of St. Ignatius that we have in the quad. My senior portraits were the best school portraits I've had done, so I was happy.</p>
<p>I need to schedule an appointment as well, although I don't particularly want the photos, especially for $30/pic. HS is not exactly something I want to remember 20 years from now.</p>
<p>^Your parents will probably want them though lol.</p>
<p>yeah they will.</p>
<p>oh hah and besides our individual pics we have to take like 50000 group pics in random places around our campus that we dont even have the option of buying, they're just for the yrbook. this is during the school day. and then after that we have to help the underclassmen with the locations and stuff for their yrbook pics. can anyone say waste of time?</p>
<p>I have to take mine, I find them stupid, our pictures are so freaking small that I don't find a point. we have a senior class of 550 so they cram about 50 per page. I rahter just take a regular picture and not have to go out of my way to take a fancy loking picture, although it is nice looking better than the underclassmen.</p>
<p>I hate that we're required to do them, but we have to pay the studio fees, which aren't low at all.
That being said, I'm excited for them! Who doesn't want a few glamor shots?</p>
<p>bleh, they just do that because the seniors have color portraits for the yearbook and they need them to look good and all dressed up. But the school's too poor to cover the costs and makes the students pay.</p>
<p>I hated them and thought they were pointless but now I realize that I actually have a decent pic to put with the applications that ask for them.</p>