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Basic Homeschooling Information |
School Photos School kids have
photographs taken every year. If your children
are not in the school system, you will not have a built-in photographer every
fall. It is expensive to visit
a professional photographer (think senior pix), but there are ways to have
photographs done on a budget. Kmart,
Wal*Mart, and other discount stores often have studios where you can get a
package of photos done for less than $20. Even better, with the
availability of digital cameras, you can easily take your own pictures. Take twenty pictures, delete all the ones
you don’t like, and keep the best one.
Crop it on your home computer (set the constraint to the size picture
you want printed), upload the file to a developer (Costco, and many drugstore
chains), and have the pix mailed directly to your house. The last time we did pictures this way, it
cost 39 cents per 5x7 (we got one for ourselves and one for each
grandparent), and 39 cents for a sheet of four wallets. For less than $2 per child, we had a nice
set of basic school pictures.
Tip: take a look at many school photos. An old high school yearbook can be a good
source. Note that more of the body
shows on younger kids. As kids get
bigger, it is common to have the photo subject turn at an angle instead of
doing a straight head-shot. Having the
shoulders turned makes the person appear smaller, while having shoulders
square to the camera adds weight.
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