Misleading as usual - but drove us to find a really good place (Portrait Place)

Member Name: stevelh

Product:	Portrait Place
Date:	08/08/08 (417 review reads)
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Advantages: Locations

Disadvantages: Expensive, pictures not so great

Like virtually all photographers - a con. You go on an offer of spending a few pounds, but of course spend hundreds because the 'free' picture they offer is one they select and not one you actually want. We went with our two kids and would have ended up spending several hundreds of pounds. In the end we weren't that happy and left without anything, so we went to find an alternative.

We found a place called Picture Proud (www.picture-proud.co.uk) - the only studio we could find working on a coyright free basis. Basically they spend an hour with you in the studio, you see all the images straight away and you simply decide if you are prepared to pay £160 for every image taken (we got over 500) in both colour and black-and-white. They put these on a disc so you can print them on your own if you want to. We decided to use there printing services, because Picture Proud were the same price as us going to Boots to get them printed.

At no point were we put under any pressure - in fact they don't even sit with you whilst you review the pictures. The staff were friendly and humerous and the kids had a great time, and therefore so did we. I wasn't looking forward to it, but it turned out to be a really great day. I couldn't find anything at all to fault and would reccomend it to anyone.

Just in case anyone out there has not been to another studio - trust me, my wife loves pictures and we've been to loads of other studios. Other places may start off sounding cheaper, but they'll not be in the end - Picture Proud represented fantastic value for money.

Summary: Find a better altenrative like we did