Originally Posted By travelagentwendi Has anyone ever done the Photo Session at the GF? We are preordering our Photopass and can get the session for $24.95, which is half price. They add all the pics to your Photopass card. I thought before our dinner at Ohana we would ride the monorail over there and do that. But I saw someone's online and they didn't look that good. They were taken outside in the middle of the day so there were harsh shadows. But I know they have an inside studio set up. Thought it would be neat to have both our fams together for a present for our parents. Just note the $24.95 will only get you a 20 in session. We are going with my sister's fam and another friend and her fam. Disney will allow you to put all our pics on the same cd. That way the cd only costs us around $35. Just wondering if anyone has done it? Can you post some pics so I can tell what they might look like?
Originally Posted By StitchMom84 We did it in Oct 2007. We took my four year old grandaughter and the photographer took off and came back in less than 15 minutes. My daughter went with and she said they pretty much ran around a few areas of the resort and the photographer was shooting very fast. You can't tell at all where the photos were taken and there was only one out of 25 or so that was any good..not quality wise..the quality was fine, but she was rushing and you can't always get the best shots rushing a four year old. We had the deal where we agreed to buy the photo CD for $124.99 and that gave us 3 5x7's of our choice included. Then, the last day we were there,we went over and had all of our Photopass images put onto that CD (including the special ones from the restaurants that were taken ). The photographer was very nice..but she was in too much of a hurry to really get any good shots. There were no others waiting for her at the time either. In fact, the photo session thing was really new when we did it. I'm sure by now, things have smoothed out and it would be a fun thing to do especially with all of you together. They did have some examples of other shots taken at the PP desk and they were family shots taken on the beach area and they were really lovely. If they're still offering it when we go back ( they told us that they had planned to offer a session at the Poly in the near future..don't know if that's happened or not), we'll try it again. I can't blame her for the fact that my grandaughter was smiling funny or had her eyes looking to the side in the photos..but, watching for that sort of thing is part of being a good photographer..you can't always take it for granted that every picture is going to be wonderful..sometimes you really have to work it. The next time I'll go along and keep watch and make sure the eyes are opened and she's looking at the camera. Watch for your location too..she took most of the ones of my DGD in a stairway area and sitting on the grass outside ( with nothing in the background to suggest where the photos were taken) so the backgrounds on our photos are very generic. The one thing that it will give you are photos without a gazillion strangers behind you like you'll often see in the park photos ( which most of the time can't be avoided due to crowds ) and hopefully you'll have a photographer who won't be in such a hurry! Good luck and I hope you're happy with them.
