What is a Senior Pic?

[borism]

I'm sorry..
Can someone tell me what is a Senior pic?
I see a lot of these kind of pics around, young people in general but I have no idea what kind of picture or event it involves?
Thank you

[locky]

It involves their Senior year of High School. They have their picture taken for the yearbook and also at the end of the year they have a open house (graduation) party as to where they send out invitations with usually 1 or 2 wallet size pictures in them.

[dshootist]

The biggest difference between a senior portrait versus the typical grade school shot is that they tend to feature more of the personality of the student. A lot of people will do a mixture of studio shots and location shots to mix it up so of course the pricing is much higher than your average school photo. I always tell my students to think of ideas that fit them; not just in their clothing, but the location they choose as well. I'll provide suggestions should they come up blank (mostly the boys), but some will get into the spirit and try some adventurous stuff.
Most of the parents that come along for the shoot comment on how much has changed from their "sit-here-in-a-jacket-and-tie-or-dress-turn-and-smile" portraits that they had done.

[borism]

Now I get it
Thank you so much for your responses
Now it makes sense
I didn't study in the US so I wasn't aware of this practice:)
So every student pay for a shooting as they graduate?
Thank you

[dshootist]

Most schools and institutions will allow for each student to find and hire their own photographer to create the images. As mentioned earlier they will usually feature a visual representation of the student's personality (sports, music, hobby, etc.) and are given more latitude on subject matter in general (I have even seen a bikini senior photo). The point is to offer the individual to create an image representative of their senior year. Each school is different. There are still some places that will only offer the choice from a limited amount of images or they can only use a specific studio (due to contract). For those who can't afford the shoot or miss the deadline either get a hallway headshot or a "not pictured" next to their name.

[O3DigitalBath]

Most schools and institutions will allow for each student to find and hire their own photographer to create the images.

Eh, I actually had never heard of it until I got into photography. I'm fairly young (grad from high school only 5 years ago) and I know non of the schools anywhere near me did this and we all had standard yearbook pics taken even our senior year.

Maybe its more widespread, but most of the "senior pics" stuff I've noticed is coming from the North East, not much from the South or even out West.

[Rascalphoto]

Maybe its more widespread, but most of the "senior pics" stuff I've noticed is coming from the North East, not much from the South or even out West.[/quote]

Pretty popular among the students and photogs this part of the west.

[borism]

Those are very nice pics, I have seen some very elaborated photo work on these senior pictures and I was always wondering what this "senior" meant
I guess is nice to be able to express your personality after school
Good to learn something new

[Cixelsyd]

Of interest, too, is that you'll see a lot of photos on these forums labeled "senior pics" but they're far from what will get chosen to be placed in the school yearbook. The more conservative shots will go there, while the more interesting stuff gets placed in the home in one of those frames with several slots for shots. At least that's how it is out here in the Northwest for the most part.

[tonyr0584]

Maybe its more widespread, but most of the "senior pics" stuff I've noticed is coming from the North East, not much from the South or even out West.

Actually, senior portraits are huge in the South and they are not your normal run of the mill senior portraits that grandma had taken. I'm pretty sure its widespread. You can take a look at my site: www.trphotography.net (http://www.trphotography.net) this is just an example of what we are shooting these days.

[birdfromboat]

part of the deal is having the cache of being shot by certain high dollar photogs. I told my kids what they had for funding from dad, and they decided to spend their own money in addition to get the work done by the local high dollar photog. It's not that dad is cheap, I am, or that I couldn't do a good job at home for free, I could and they knew it, it was all about appearing in the yearbook with the style of the local top shot. Kind of like those ten thousand dollar wedding shooters. If the fish bites, don't blame the fisherman.

[20droger]

And all this time I thought a "senior pic" was a picture of an old phart. Or maybe one taken by an old phart.