Stuart-Rodgers Photography

Photographer from this studio was hired by my kids kindergarten. I would refuse, but kindergarten teachers were saying that «its a great opportunity to have a picture made with all kids and teachers together». Well then something changed, and only individual pictures were made. We paid $ 25 for a digital photo, and got a Horrible blurry image, just 1 ! (wtf !!! digital photocameras were out of memory or something ?), can’t even select from several. Pictures were taken in September and were «processed» till December!!! What exactly the processing was — I don’t know. Not even unsharp mask effect was applied. Though my cell phone would make better photos.
Stuart-​Rodgers Photography is Unproffessional clickers with hands growing out of their lower back. I wish you choke on my $ 25.

Blurry pictures. Wasted my money. Could’ve done a better job myself. Completely unprofessional.

I have two children and they attended different schools. So when our daughter graduated we used a different studio and I was completely happy with the session and the photos. But we went here since this was
the studio the school used for the yearbook photos. The photo session was similar to taking them for photos in the mall when they were small.
Which I stopped doing. The quality of the photos were poor, color, centering, lightning, focus, we have taken better pictures with camera phones. When I complained about the quality and my disappointment I was offered no discount or a free reshoot. I only
order wallets to pass out with thank you. Even the edges on these we not smooth, it was as if they cut them with scissors. Take the yearbook pictures and schedule a photo shoot with a more professional studio.
BTW the prices are not inline with the quality.

Wow, to say that I am disappointed in this studio is an understatement. We had to use them for my daughters senior pictures. 1^st — never a word about how much pictures/​prints would cost and shame on me for not pushing to find out more. 2^nd — I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the cost of a hi def digital print DVD, $ 525.00, yup, that’s right, FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS. Now mind you, we are not a print off 100’s of pictures. We’re talking grandparents and aunties, so maybe 10 pictures tops. So for the standard 5×7 it would be $ 250.00 again, seriously. I understand the word overhead but that is just ridiculous. SHAME ON STUART RODGERS, what a rip off.

What a disappointment! My kid’s school uses them so we had to have 2 retakes because the pictures were so bad. If the photographer was at all conciencious we would not have been in this situation. So the last retake we had to drive out to Evanston on a Sat. Morning at 8:00 am! (We live in Elmhurst) and they actually took a much better photo. Here’s the problem… Even though they promised they would put the new photo in the year book, many months later we come to find out in print it was the old bad retake put in the yearbook. All that effort and aggravation for nothing! I will be contacting the school next so they are aware of the unprofessional business they are trying to run.

My son and I went to SR Photo for head shots for our Linkedin profile. Kurt, the photographer, was very professional and he listened to our ideas but also had many recommendations for poses, backdrops and lighting. We ended up with very nice head shots along with some additional portraits. We purchased the rights to our photos and they mailed them to us on a disc. I would use SR Photo again and highly recommend them.

I agree with the majority of Unilocalers on this one. They take the photos at my girls’ school. First takes were okay, but I had retakes to compare and select the best ones. The second ones were horrible. My daughters’ photos were taken so far back at a distance that you could see in the photo where the backdrop ended. So unprofessional looking. And the lighting they used the second time was terrible. I could tell the difference from the first to the second shots they had taken. I ended up having to order the photos online to crop the ones that were presentable (their online ordering site stinks as well). I give props to the school for trying to rectify the issues, but Angie at Stuart-​Rodgers wasn’t any help. Wouldn’t budge to give any kind of courtesy discount for the inconvenience/​hassle so I ended up canceling my order, minus the group class photos. Was trying to save some time just ordering shots of my girls here, but honestly not worth it. I’ll be taking my girls elsewhere for photos…

First impressions mean a lot. This studio was awarded the contract to take my son’s school photos this year. Their forms must be from the 60’s.they are completely unsecure with no regard to privacy or security. The payment information portion is completely exposed-​it is not detachable to include in the self sealing envelope, nor does the flap enclose such private information. The full credit card number, 3 digit verification code as well as expiration date were to be written on the outside of the form, clearly visible for all to see. Am I to willing to give a free ticket to credit card fraud to their staff, photographers and any of their employees who handle this form? As well as to my son’s high school staff who may be overseeing the process? Or what if my son were to drop that form/​set it down? In a high school of 1700 students? I think not!
All other studios we have worked with in the past have had a detachable form to fill in such personal financial information, and enclose it on the inside of the self sealing envelope, with a box to check off that I am paying by credit card and the information is enclosed.
After calling their local number and explaining my frustration, I was abruptly and tersely asked if I would like to speak with a manager. I was then put on hold for 13 minutes, until my call got dumped to a nameless automated voice mail box. That was an hour ago-​I was very clear that I was looking for a call back to address the issue. Let’s see how long it takes for them to contact me back. (after a call to their legal team perhaps?)
I obviously did not personally choose this studio, and I can only hope that the photos that come out of this experience are exceptional-​although my expectations are getting lower by the minute.

If this place was burned to the ground, the world would be better for it. The worst thing was how long it took us to find this place. You can’t choose where your school makes you go, but you can for other things. Find someplace else.

This place is so dysfunctional I dont even know where to begin. Let’s start with the photographers. Some of them are good and understand portraits and how to use flash effectively. The rest of the photographers need to get fired because my 5 year old niece could take better iPhone selfies than they could a class picture. I dont understand why everything w them is so inconsistent. Mr Rodgers himself is a professional business man and I respect him for that but he NEEDS to reevaluate his staff

I went to Stuart-​Rodgers to take my Senior Portrait last fall. The photos were okay, but when I received my yearbook yesterday, the photo I did NOT select was in there. I am totally mortified as well as disappointed in this company as this unflattering photo will be in the book for people to look back on for many years to come. The photo package was expensive and the lighting was way too bright for portrait photographs.
Apparently, my situation is not the first for Stuart-​Rodgers. A friend of mine who is a former employee of theirs said they are disorganized. This type of behavior shows they do not care about their customers and if this is true, they should get out of the business and stop wasting everyone’s time and money – and stop ruining high school senior’s final yearbooks. I will not be recommending them to anyone.

I had three kids took high school senior pictures here.
It was unfortunate for us that we had to use this studio three times.
The oldest one’s pictures were OK, but printing was very expensive. The second kid’s pictures were too dark or too much shadow. The third kid’s pictures were reasonably good, but some of the pictures were out of focus. The prices were unbelievably high and has gone higher every year. The cheapest package was $ 96 for only 6 small pictures for one pose. The CD for all hi resolution images were $ 625. 2 pictures (4×6 or 5×7) were $ 45. They serve for all the high schools in our area, but they don’t offer any discount for any schools.

Went there with a Groupon ($ 80 — 1 print), but I’ve been wanting to find a photographer that I can go back to, periodically, with my family. I was hoping this could be it.
Convenient location (for me at least), nice interior.
Pictures were terrible! Dim lighting, not in a good way. I have a DSLR, but I could have done better with my iphone. It took me a few months to order the «free» print, because all the pictures were so bad.
Anyways, eventually ordered the print and some wallets to send around to family. Several weeks later, print arrives, no wallets. How hard is it?
Oh, did I mention insanely overpriced (especially for the quality of photos). I’m at a loss how my experience could have been so bad. I’m guessing we happened on a bad photographer, and they’ve swamped themselves with Groupons (though it didn’t look busy). Either way, sad we don’t have a good picture (pretty hard to find time for this with two kids), and irritated with the whole experience.