Hi

has anyone used this company, there's one in our local mothercare/ELC.

I want a nice photo of ellie, for her grandparents for Christmas, I just want to know if I should give them a try or use an indepenant photographer?

Also, has anyone got any idea of how much it costs?

xx

you
get one free+but their+nothing grand. They give you a set price for all of them.
Its like 25 quid a
photo other wise x

They are good. Did you get voucher in your bounty pack to get a free sitting and a 10x12 pic every 6 mths till they 2? Most people do.

If you dont, not sure how much sitting is but a 8x10 is £30, pretty dear! However they do deals and ast time I got 5 8x10 for £100. Time befor that I got a massive one for £90.

Only thing is you may not get pic by xmas, mine usally arent ready until 2 Fridays after the sitting, so 2-3 wk wait usually x

hey, iv used them LOADS of times lol, i love the pics there...although the studio's are much more expensive than the mobile ones.
when i went i got a complimentary one and another for £30
when leo was a baby i got 8 complete sets for £88...that was 52 pics all in all of 8 different poses...the prices have gone up loads since then think now its something like £50 for 1 set then £15 for each after but thats at the mobile ones not too sure about the perminent ones...sorry for waffeling lol

heres a couple i got done there


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Yeah iv only ever been to the studio and the seem to be about 3x the price of what some of the ladies on here have said mobile ones cost.

They take loads of dif poses and then tell you the whole package is £480 or something daft,but then work with you to get it down to your budget by selecting only a few pics. Soooo hard to pick but!

If your going a have a txt i could forward you for a good offer, cant rem what exactly it is but its on my old phone so let me know

snoopy21 wrote:

Yeah iv only ever been to the studio and the seem to be about 3x the price of what some of the ladies on here have said mobile ones cost.

They take loads of dif poses and then tell you the whole package is £480 or something daft,but then work with you to get it down to your budget by selecting only a few pics. Soooo hard to pick but!

see thats what i dont like about it now, it used to be about £80 for the whole package...how do they justify increasing the prices that much in 5 years????x

Snoops, no I haven't got a voucher

gemz, love the photos, just showed oh and he was impressed!

I'm going to look into this tomorrow.

Thanks girls

I know lots of people do like them...but (I am critical cos I am studying photography lol) their pics often just don't seem that good quality compared to a really good independent photographer

Izzy had hers done by an independant (to be fair though he is on the top 100 list of best photographers, even so...)

this is one, which is small proof with no editing, so cant even see how good the original really was

Oh and theres a voucher u can print off on the website too

Lisa, I love your photo of izzy too!

Thanks terri, I'll have a look at the website at the voucher.

But to be honest, after reading your replies I'm kinda put off by the pricing, I hate getting ripped off or negociating a price. I just want a few nice photos and one or two big ones!

I'll get a few prices tomorrow

thank you all so much for your advice and info.

Xx

you can usually get the first one really cheap as part of the shoot, at mine its £7.50, i never usually buy the other ones as i think theyre overpriced and you can't get a cd backup.

The last time I went, July, the girl said they were bringing out a cd option in the next few mths but the price hadnt been set yet. I dread to think what they will charge, id guess a min of £200 .

Hey Penny, we got pixiephotos done when Bethany was 1 and we went to mothercare to get them done. We got about 6 in total and it cost about £300 (I think). We were made up with them xx

yeah i think the 1st is usually £7.50 if they have the offer on! such a shame they put the prices up as much as they did, i used to buy loads of pics from them when leo was little, they even came mounted back then too x

i went there with evan the photographer was great and i got some fab photos!!
i ended up spending almost £400 tho, i got 3 huge bloc pic type ones and aload of mid sized prints and some smaller size prints cost a fortune but to me was worth it!
my dad jst paid for us to go to an independant photographer and we were £40 for the sitting and u get 10 7x5prints and to be honest her prices for other pics were jst as expensive and no where near as good a pixifotos my dad gave me £100 to spend and all i got was one 12x16 bloc pic and one 10x12 print for my mum and the £100 was spent (including the £40 for sitting) so id def recommend pixifoto even tho they r pricey pics are amazing quality and they can do so much with the pictures my 3 big ones have like one main pic of evan then 3 smaller pics in the same bloc they are really nice

I went to pixifoto for 1st set and spent 200. Had another 2 sets done since but with a company calld dawson strange as i like the fact they let you pick any photo as your complementaty one not justthe 1st one they take. 1st time we went we spent 200 on about 6 photos and 2nd time got 2 sets of 5 in panoramic frames for 135 cos of an offer. Next time i go will be to have awen and c done together and will either go back to DS or try another local one 5 mins from me my mum used to work with and reccomended (plus im hoping to name drop my mum lol)

just a quick fyi...lady advertising pixifoto today said that wednesday is the last day for sittings if you want the pics ready for xmas(24th)

We had callums done when he was 6months old they were good but exspensive we payed £200 for 5 different poses large/medium and 4small of each xx

well i went in august i think to mothercare theyd given me a voucher for a 10x20 picture which cost £15 for the picture and the sitting when it was alldone for all the pics they selected for a few canvasas some multi shots some on boards and some prints with them all framed was over £1000 i said i couldnt afford that so they got it down so i ended up with a 10x20 pic 2 on boards which r maybe 10x40 there a long picture and then 18 8x10 prints all with no frames and it cost me £250 which i though wasnt bad these r some of them

Where are you babymilly - my oh James is a professional photographer who is currently offering free home visits ( may charge travel depending where you are) he can cover Essex, Kent, some London depends how far etc
I have had piskie fotos but don't like the hard sell so only go for my freebie obv living with a pro kinda helps )
You can check out his website and if you're interested let me know. I don't think I can advertise it on here but will put his website as my Fb status ... Dont wanna get in trouble with Lisa xxx

It's Emma Louise C I think you are my friend
Xx

Emma you can put it up!

You know you can also add a sig banner and an advert in the directory (see Mandys to see what I mean)

PM me if you are interested, you never know he might get some work!

Oo thank you will go looksie

In the meantime.

www.photographybyjameswren.co.uk

we got pics taken at pret a portrait, still expensive but the pics are amazing!
that's one i stole off the site as my profile pic and the prints i got are great quality

I got Roberts done, I got a voucher from their site so had to pay £5 for the sitting then we got 1 free photo and a bought one for £25 i think.