Question for Senior photogs

[jdouglas003]

Do you guys always do the yearbook photo also?

I see a lot of senior posts but rarely see anything that looks like a yearbook photo.

I am assuming these aren't posted because they are boring.

I am interested to know if you guys always do the yearbook photos though.

Thanks

[Seefutlung]

ohh ... HS seniors .. I thought you were talking about photogs who are old farts.

[Nikel1979]

Around here, lifetouch comes to the school to do the yearbook images. Those are the only ones that can go in the yearbook. Senior sessions are just for the other, more fun stuff.

[jdouglas003]

Around here, lifetouch comes to the school to do the yearbook images. Those are the only ones that can go in the yearbook. Senior sessions are just for the other, more fun stuff.


Thanks Nicole, that's what I figured.

[MJPhotos24]

In the local disricts here they usually have it set up so you can use lifetouch and get the boring old photos, even though I do believe they "pose" you a little more as a senior than as an underclassman. However, if you want to get photos done elsewhere and have that in the yearbook you can as well. I know several do that, they just have to supply the photo to the yearbook staff, digital or print - doesn't matter.

[BradT0517]

Being on my schools yearbook staff we use to have lifetouch do the portraits but the fired them a year or two back and now I am trying to convince advisor to fire the new people. The problem is that they don't give us the pictures when we need them.

As for using a different picture in the book I highly doubt that it would go through because the section editors will have planned for it to look one way and won't change it.

Hope that helps.

[XTshooter]

We shoot the standard yearbook pose with all of our sittings. I have heard of schools that don't require the "standard" yearbook head-shot, but instead allow the kids to choose any photo they want in any setting they want (within the school's limits). I wish I had that option when I graduated high school!

[nebular]

At my high school I was editor of the yearbook, and our requirements were something along the lines of an indoor shot with a dark background, and the head had to fill a certain percentage of the frame. We let the seniors use whichever studio they used for their other pictures, and required them to be in to us by a certain date. Not every photo looked exactly the same, but most of them were well above the "Lifetouch" quality.

[Mario.]

In Colorado here, you can choose to use the Lifetouch photo, but most kids choose a picture from their senior photo shoot. Each school provides a list of requirements (one school had no B&W, no soft focus, etc.)