JC Penny Portrait Studio

Great deal with the Groupon but the pictures were not very good. I bought 2 groupons for each side of our family as Christmas presents. Our first session was about 30 minutes later than our appointment, with a nursing 8 week old and a 3 year old it was not fun waiting! There were 5 kids total for this session and there were shadows on half their faces the baby was practically cropped out of some. She took one picture of each pose about 8 pictures were taken and we liked 1 of them. Lighting was horrible and so were the poses. The second session was with 14 people. The pose was HORRIBLE. Peoples heads were sticking up and some of us had our whole body showing they just looked awful. There was no sense on how we were posed at all they just don’t look right. We were rushed through it and trying to get 14 people to smile at once is not easy we hardly liked any of the pics. Than you have to sit there and wait for them to do different collages that we weren’t even going to order! NONE of the pics were centered and the top part of my 6 ft tall brother-​in-​laws head was cut off in every picture! Over all BAD LIGHTING, AWFUL POSES WOULDNT GO BACK! These ‘photographers’ need to be trained! I could have done a better job and next time we will just have a friend take pics outside they will look 10x better! I should also mention I went to 2 different studios– Roseville, Gratiot & Chesterfield on 23.

Horrible experience. Extremely rude staff. Rushed us out. Took one shot of each pose. Half the pictures someone’s face was cropped out or crying or blinking. Careless photographers. When I asked to speak to the manager the rude photographer claimed she was the manager. Pictures turned out like crap non the less will never ever be going back there.

Not good! I got a really cheap deal with a groupon so it wasn’t a big deal for me but I would NEVER go back here. We got about 25 – 30 pictures taken and only liked 1 of them.
In lots of the photos, we aren’t centered in the frame, our heads are at weird angles, etc and not once did the photographer stop us and have us move so the photos don’t look awkward.