Dream Studio Pictures

[Lindsay0405]

Currently on board the Breeze.  The first elegant night my family was pulled into the Dream Studio and had about a 15 minute photo session done.  
 

I went to view them yesterday and holy cow they are AMAZING, but EXPENSIVE!  There are 23 images and he said $899 for the package.  Is there anyway to get a deal on them?  I realize photography is expensive, first off but we did not budget for $900 in pictures but I love them and I want them 😂

[Lindsay0405]

The Dream studio is different than the nightly pictures you can have taken.  

[ColeThornton]

They "pulled you in to the studio"? 

 

$899 for a fifteen minutes session?  Um...no, not for me at least.   Can you just pick and choose a few of them and pay much less?

[babygrljaz]

7 hours ago, Lindsay0405 said:

Currently on board the Breeze.  The first elegant night my family was pulled into the Dream Studio and had about a 15 minute photo session done.  
 

I went to view them yesterday and holy cow they are AMAZING, but EXPENSIVE!  There are 23 images and he said $899 for the package.  Is there anyway to get a deal on them?  I realize photography is expensive, first off but we did not budget for $900 in pictures but I love them and I want them 😂

Same happened to us on the Breeze.  It was my son's senior year in HS so it worked out perfect.  Pictures were AWESOME but when they told me the price ($1600+) i said NO & started to walked out.  They "dropped" the price, about 50%.  I eventually caved.  But nope never gonna do it again.

[ninjacat123]

Happened to us as well.  At first I was quoted a large number for the whole package and I said I didn't want the whole package.  The amount eventually came down for what I wanted.  Expensive but the photos are some of my favorites!

[Anyislandwilldo]

Same thing  happened to us.  The pictures ARE amazing.  What the heck are we going to do with all these pictures?  There were 3 pictures that DH really really really liked and had to to twist my arm to purchase them.  The price was $150 for 3.  We did buy them.  Try to talk the sales person down.  Good luck.

[cocomango]

The pictures are amazing. They edit them one by one. We've done it twice

You can get a deal on them. 

I think it helps to do your appointment on the last day.. or closer to the end of the cruise.

The photographer has the leeway.

 

[Lindsay0405]

I was going to wait until tomorrow evening and go talk to him again… 

[LakeWobegon]

On 1/11/2022 at 7:43 PM, Lindsay0405 said:

I was going to wait until tomorrow evening and go talk to him again… 

How did it go? Responding a bit late but was doing a search on this topic as I was considering booking a Dreams Studio session. We did the portrait studio on an NCL cruise back in 2017 and it was about $1,000 for 50+ amazing digital photos and six large high-quality canvas wall-hangings. At the time, I thought that was nuts, but have really enjoyed the photos and wall art since then. I wouldn't do it every year, but in retrospect, we did get a lot for our $$$. 

[kandmsdad]

My daughters wedding cruse in 2019 we did some serious negotiating with the photographer.  We also negotiated to get a couple of flashdrives with all images and release form in order to print anywhere.    

 

It was my understanding that each photographer had the ability to set the own prices.

[shortyjoesmith]

I went to the simple black background for pictures with my granddaughter, had no idea it was the more expensive photos. Eventually after the sticker shock and some back & forth, I was able to pick 3 plus the digital rights for around $300. Pricey but worth it for the edited pics for the two of us. 

 

With that  in mind, I will forever skip the simple black backgrounds. 😉

[Jeafl]

On 2/23/2022 at 11:05 AM, shortyjoesmith said:

I went to the simple black background for pictures with my granddaughter, had no idea it was the more expensive photos. Eventually after the sticker shock and some back & forth, I was able to pick 3 plus the digital rights for around $300. Pricey but worth it for the edited pics for the two of us. 

 

With that  in mind, I will forever skip the simple black backgrounds. 😉

Same thing happened to us.  They made us make an appointment to come back and view them, which I did not understand at the time.  I had no idea they were different than the regular pictures.  I really liked one of them, but the photographer told us all or nothing.  So we said nothing, and he got kind of snippy with us.  The pictures were not worth $899 by any stretch of the imagination.