Mommy and Daddy were once babies too
Benjamin & Sarah's Babyblog is a collection of notes on our children's development and experiences as well as occassional links to information on the Web of personal interest as a parent.
We visited the Sears portrait studio and made Benjamin pose for a few photographs. They have several props and backgrounds and we chose one called "Bears in the attic", another one of Pooh and friends and also the one titled "Celestial sky".
For some reason we felt we had to have these "studio" photos taken. Frankly, I believe I have taken much better pictures of my son in this past year (even if I have never made him pose or sit still for one). Being a web developer, I'm perfectly able with graphics and photo editing software to put any background to any portrait. And with services like Snapfish.com getting professional prints is easy and cheap. So what's the point really?

We did get a diskette with digital copies of the photos. But I knew they were of poor quality (low resolution) because they all fit on a regular 3.5 inch diskette. Also, I believe it's ridiculous that they make the very first photo you Ok the one printed as a "package" before you have a chance to evaluate the rest of the pictures. Why? How can you decide without all the options?

Comments:

[2003/02/01 @ 06:02:52] Daddy wrote:
Never mind my dissatisfaction with these studio photos. Everybody who we sent one to loved getting it.
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