Target Portrait Studios

Their photo services are closed until June 2016, according to a customer service representative.

On 3÷29÷2016 4:45pm appointment, This studios looks small with a lot of people, but it’s nice and clear. The photographer Lynne was very busy, patient, and professional. My photos came out very good. Prices are reasonable. I brought all of images.

What an awful experience. DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE. I was shocked with this family portrait session. First: the rush! The photo appointments are packed back to back, so the photographer does not spend any time making your photo look good, or giving you a second to arrange your hair. It’s just BAM BAM BAM. Second: the photographer puts zero effort into arranging the family. She just put up her camera and said «ok smile!» Like, who stands where? In which order? Where do my hands go? The photographer spent no time telling people to tilt their heads a certain way, to move their body a certain way. There was no positioning or blocking done. I was appalled by the poor service. Third: you would imagine that by this point, I don’t trust the photographer to do a good picture. So I had to insist upon letting her see the photos after she took a few, to which she kept saying, «No no you look great!» Sure enough– the pictures looked awful. Off-​center! Cropping off one person on one side more than the other person on the other side! What a WASTE OF TIME.
I am so upset. My very elderly grandparents are visiting from India and this was a Christmas present to them– one last professional family photo before we won’t have a chance to do so again. What a precious moment this could have been– and how awful the end result ended up being.
If I could give it zero stars, I would.

I used a Groupon to get some holiday pictures as well as a family photo. I had to book the appointment ahead of time. They were very sincere and answered all my questions over the phone.
I got the last one for the day which worked out because that gave us more time with the photographer especially during this busy time of year. Mind you I had a family of 6.
We were running a little late by a few minutes so had to wait until the previous client was done.
The photographer Lynne was very patient and enthusiastic in her work, even though I had a few family members disappointed by some pictures she still offered to retake and get the right feel for the outcome. The pictures came out great at such a great price too. Overall Great customer service and great experience.

NOT HAPPY. Came in to get my sons first birthday photos done and the photographer was VERY RUDE to us and she missed EVEERYY SINGLE shor he was smiling in, she blamed our son when he was not at faukt!!!
We left completely unsatisfied, the pictures were NOT good. She clearly did not care about customer satisfaction. What a WASTE. She had multiple opportunities to catch him laughing or smiling but instead got photos of him mid blink or his back turned our just a bad pose. Pissed
The nice blonde at the counter helping with photo packages was VERY friendly and very professional. Props to her doing such a fantastic job with all the customers and help understanding available photo packages. ONLY positive aspect of our visit.

I have been to this location twice before beside being delayed I didn’t have any complains. But this time around… I was really disappointed at the photographer (different photographer then previous two time) and her knowledge of Photography. I can take better picture then her. We took bunch of family pics and she couldn’t even tell us that our poses are not working. After the session we looked at the pics and they looked really bad. Her response to that was to crop them/​use Photoshop and it’ll look better. REALLY!!! Also like other reviews… what is the point of an appointment when they are never on time. This time we showed up 10 mins early and ended up waiting an hour after. Just like them… my time is worth money too you know!!! Never again.

I booked the last session of the day on ¹¹⁄₁₆ at 7pm. Got there at 6:50pm and there was 1 family ahead of me doing a photo shoot.
We got in at about 7:15pm. Keep in mind this type of stuff happens with photo studios. Be patient if they are running behind schedule.
The delay could be other customers not knowing what they want or walk in appointments. If you are looking for a photographer that follows you around (think wedding), this place is not for you.
The gal taking the picture is super-​cool and very patient with my 20 month daughter. You can tell from experience that they have photographed a lot of little kids in the past. The photographer did everything to extract a smile out of my daughter.
I opted to get all the high quality prints online. With a coupon, I got 24 prints and no sitting fees. Never any upsell and was told to take my time when I get the pictures online to decide how I want to make the cards with Target or elsewhere.
For what I paid, there was about 35 prints pictures done but some were eliminated for obvious reasons (not a good shot of baby due to moving, eyes closed, etc.).
Pretty happy with the pictures we got! Not sure why the negative reviews. There are only 3 target picture studios in the OC area.

Great studio! Called late Tuesday morning and got an appointment for 12:30 the same day. I was a few minutes late but the lady didn’t mention anything about it. She sat down with me to go over background choices and did not rush me at all. I needed a head shot so we did those first. She let me look at the photos to make sure I liked them before taking fun photos. When we got to fun photos she had many nice poses in mind. She also made sure we had the coupon from Target’s website. Will definitely be coming back for family photos soon!

The girl was super cool… got there a bit late and she was very helpful. The pictures came up good. Thanks again!

My appointment was for 4pm and I was taken in by an associate at 5:10pm. ONE HOUR 10 MINUTES LATE! Associate took few shots and I was out in less than 7 minutes. I was so disappointed and barely liked may be 1 picture. I am so disappointed and felt waste of time and money.
Target shouldn’t be booking back to back appointments and shouldn’t honor walk ins when they are already running behind in their schedule.

What a waste of my time, and what liars. The only reason I came here was because I had a Groupon. Never again. Not worth it. I made an appointment and show up 10 minutes early. Then I am told it would be a 15 minute wait because they were behind and there were two people ahead of us. Then what was the point of the appointment? When I asked the clerk what time there appointment was, he lied and said there was around 12:30. They did not have an appointment — and we have proof of that thanks to them leaving the computer screens up and open. He lied, and again I wonder what the point of the appointment was if anyone who walks in can go ahead of us anyway. And another lie was that it would be a 15 minute wait try closer to a hour. Lie after lie. There are way too many place to have pictures taken to bother wasting your time here. I have had pictures taken at many low cost portrait studios and they are the same quality photos or better. I only got two background shots and other places I got many more. Please do not come here. After this review, I will be making a call to the Target management about their staff members horrible customer service and flat out lies.

I hope Unilocal allows negative stars. The one we went to was target portrait on Jambree Rd (north Irvine store). The staff there was not friendly at all. As for the photograph skill? None. The pictures taken pretty much worth nothing at all. If you can set up the background at home, you can shoot much better pictures using your Iphone!

Exactly what I needed. Girl taking the pictures was super cool. Was in and out super fast with quality shots to choose from. Used them for all my business emails and it has paid off exponentially. Thank YOU!

I’m only giving one star because they don’t have the option for zero stars. The first time we came for a family portrait with our 3 month old, they left us waiting for over an hour standing in the store with our 3 month old baby, giving us false promises of «10 more minutes, 10 more minutes» when in fact there were three other families in front of us. So we rescheduled. When we came back, now with our 6 month old, they took a walk-​in over our scheduled appointment and then catered to a the walk-​in, who was taking way too long to select the picture because he didn’t like the way his chin looked, went back in to take several more shots, needed to transfer files from another session to do side by side comparisons, and then the computer goes down. I gave myself 2 hours before I needed to be at work, and we had to split up the session because the 2 hours I set aside was not enough time due to them taking the walk-​in and having technical difficulties. The photographer, «Christa,» was good and she was very nice. She should open her own studio and stop messing around with this company. Everyone else at this company has not been very professional. Oh, btw, the IT guy finally came and apologized because he was at Starbucks while on the clock. At the end, I was satisfied with how the few pictures I had with my son turned out, but was disappointed that we ran out of time. My wife plans on coming back to do photos of her and our son together later today. Hopefully she’ll post her experience on here to update. We decided to come here because we had a Groupon for a $ 25 photo session. However, I guess in this case, you get what you pay for. If I had it to do all over again, I would book a professional private portrait studio.