Portrait Innovations

This was my first experience with taking a baby to have their pictures taken. We had a budget of $ 100 and wanted to get professional pictures of our son to share with family and keep for ourselves.
I made my appointment online for 1^st thing on a Sunday morning so my 7 month old would be in a good mood. We arrived on time as suggested in the confirmation email and were greeted and checked in right away.
We had to wait for about 5 – 10 minutes to get into a studio room but the wait was not long.
Our photographer (short blonde hair, I didn’t get her name) took our requests and executed perfectly. She was great with our son and got him to smile on her own on numerous pictures.
She was very nice and gave us lots of options for pictures and scenes.
When it was time to select our photos I told her our budget of $ 100 and she was VERY helpful, she never pressured us to buy more and only offered what was within our price.
Our pictures were done in 30 minutes, and there is a Target next door to pass the time.
The pictures look great and for $ 100 we got 6 poses, 2 sheets of each and the CD to have more printed anytime we want.
I read reviews on here 1^st and was a little worried but quickly realized it was just bad experiences, and vented frustration.
I was very happy with this location and feel I received a professional experience and great value.
I will definitely return for more pictures.

I have been to portrait innovations many times, and they take beautiful pictures, but many occasions they run behind. When you run behind so typically why isn’t something being done to fix the problem??? And at most why aren’t you calling your customers to let them know you are running behind. Currently waiting now with three kids who were done up and ready for their appointment on time but have been told it will be an hour!!! This is just unacceptable! It ended up being 1 hour and 30 minutes until we were finally able to take our
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Wow! Just had to change my review from 2 stars to 1, the last time I had to wait forever they at least did something to compensate for my time by upgrading my package, today they did nothing. On top of that they told me my pictures would be done in about 30 minutes, I went back to get them and they hadn’t even started printing!!!

I wish there was one in California. Great deal on getting a lot of pictures. you also get to choose which picture you want for the package. And the best part is, you get them in an hour.

I would strongly suggest nobody ever use this place if you have young children. We waited over an hour for pictures. They are under staffed and didnt say anything when we made our appointment that you could possible wait this long. I would not ever waste my time coming back here ever again coupon or not.

These guys take great pictures and the selection process of which pictures to buy is very easy. However, every time I have gone (about 3 times) they are running way behind schedule. They need to learn to either book less appointments OR if they are running behind then call us to let us know to come in an hour later. The last time I went, we had a 2pm appointment. We noticed they were backed up so we told them we would go grab a bite to eat and come back. They told us to be back by 2:30. We were… and then 3pm rolled around and we still hadn’t been seen yet. I think we finally left the place around 5pm. I liked the end result but I really hadn’t expected to give up 3 hours of my life. And I was only getting pictures taken of my 2 kids. You’d think that they would realize that kids take better pictures when they haven’t been sitting bored for a long time.

It’s always a project coming here. No matter what time your appointment is you will sit there for at least 30 – 45 mins before its your turn. Then when you are done with your pictures you usually wait another 20 mins or so until a computer opens up. Once you finally get to sit down its another 20 — 30 mins waiting for them to go through all their packages. Even when you tell them you only want one picture if one pose they still make you sit through all the packages. The pictures come out good, but the while experience is a drawn out hassle.

The days of being dragged to Sears by your mother in ugly sweaters and suffering for two hours only to wait a month to get your photos back are over. This is an excellent place to get portraits for your kids or for the whole family, and they make some pretty impressive use of technology to make a great experience for everyone.
How it works: You show up and you are assigned a photographer who will work with you for different poses, different outfit changes, and so on. They are very good with children and I’ve seen them wrangle some pretty difficult little kids into great poses and happy smiles. They are good with older kids as well and know how to have everyone laughing. They even had my 18-​year-​old giggling. After they take tons of photos, they load them all up on a computer and guide you through the process of picking and discarding various photos. It sounds overwhelming, but they show them in groups of three and it’s very manageable. They also edit and crop them on the fly, which is really neat to watch. After you’ve narrowed down your selection somewhat, they begin explaining what packages are available and what options you can pick.
After the first round of eliminations, you will still have photos amounting to $ 500-​$ 600, since each pose is $ 20 and comes with 3 sheets of photos. This is where you have to be careful – keep thinning out the poses until you have the number you want and are happy with the amount you are spending. Their system is pretty ingenious, since you don’t pick which photos you want – you pick which photos you DON’T want. As such, it’s easy to end up with too many. Just remember to keep eliminating them until you have what you want.
You will then have all your prints along with a CD of digital versions of each photo, if your package included that, within 30 min. Pretty amazing.
Ask for Amber H. — she’s the best!