{"id":79076,"date":"2013-09-18T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2022-05-04T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:57:16","slug":"photopass-yay-nay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/photopass-yay-nay\/","title":{"rendered":"PhotoPass+ – Yay or Nay?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Debbie Boehm<\/p>\n

\"2013-09-12<\/a>We\u2019ve all seen the PhotoPass photographers at Walt Disney World.\u00a0\u00a0 There are at least six of them between the Emporium and Cinderella Castle on Main Street every day.\u00a0 They\u2019ll even use your camera or cell phone to capture that special moment for you.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the things that I\u2019ve always thought was a great idea.\u00a0 Before the advent of PhotoPass, invariably one of the parents was always behind the camera unless you were lucky enough to find a kind stranger who would snap a picture for you.<\/p>\n

Disney has used the term \u201cplussing\u201d for a long time.\u00a0 It\u2019s that little extra that makes something really special.\u00a0 One of the best illustrations of \u201cplussing\u201d is the little touches of gold on the Walt Disney Classics Collection pieces.\u00a0 Now they have used the \u201c+\u201d for the PhotoPass.\u00a0 So, I had to see if it was truly \u201cplussed.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years we\u2019ve enjoyed the PhotoPass pictures and the ability to have a professional capture of our family vacation memories.\u00a0 However, this past July we were traveling as a group of 18 ranging in age from 2 to 60.\u00a0 Was it worth the money to pre-purchase the PhotoPass+ before our vacation had even begun?\u00a0 After all, this was an investment before the fact \u2013 before we\u2019d get to see even one picture from our trip.<\/p>\n

Our group consisted of five siblings with most of our children.\u00a0 If we used PhotoPass, we figured we would order two photos each and have it cost nearly the same, so why not go for it?\u00a0 I called my travel agent and asked them to add PhotoPass+ to our trip and off we went.\u00a0 If you order the PhotoPass+ in enough time you will receive everything you need in the mail. We made our decision too late, so we had to take the voucher included in our package at check in to the PhotoPass+ location found in one of the theme parks.\u00a0 For us this was Town Hall at the Magic Kingdom and couldn\u2019t have been easier.<\/p>\n

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\"2013-09-12<\/a>The PhotoPass+ card is on a lanyard with a list of all of the ride and dining photos that could be included, found on the back.\u00a0 The only hitch is that the card must be scanned at the ride to have photos added.\u00a0 So, in our case, when our group split up and went to two different parks on the same day, one of us had to get to the other park in order to have those pictures added to the PhotoPass+.\u00a0 This is honestly the only thing that really concerned me.\u00a0 But my daughter and various nephews took care of that running.<\/p>\n

Since we were told that we could add PhotoPass cards to our account after we were home we made sure that each group had a card with them throughout the trip.\u00a0 When we did get home from our week of fun I collected everyone\u2019s cards (seven in total) and added them to the PhotoPass+ card online.\u00a0 We started out with 125 pictures but, with editing and changes to borders, we ended up with 455 pictures.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my confession \u2013 I could never understand how it was possible to even begin with 125 photos from a week at Walt Disney World let alone edit them to 455.\u00a0 I would crop and add borders and order two pictures to add to our growing wall of photos from our family trips.\u00a0 I am a convert!\u00a0 Although it took me the entire 30 days before our photos expired to edit them perfectly. I now get it!<\/p>\n

\"2013-09-12<\/a>The first picture of all 18 of us in front of Cinderella Castle has been changed to include eight different borders and cropped into separate group shots as well.\u00a0 Since you never get that perfect shot with everyone smiling and looking at the photographer at the same time it\u2019s helpful that each photographer will take multiple pictures.\u00a0 We had so many pictures where the two year old niece is smiling but the three year old isn\u2019t even facing the camera.\u00a0 That was where the editing and cropping was put to the test.\u00a0 I was able to get individual pictures for each of the girls with the characters for their autograph books with some clever cropping.\u00a0 Adding the borders is so easy too.\u00a0 Just scroll through, make a choice and then \u201cSave\u201d.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t like the chosen border just \u201cRemove\u201d and start over.<\/p>\n

As I write this article, we\u2019ve received a puzzle of our first group photo and are expecting the CDs any day.\u00a0 We\u2019ve made sure we have the photo paper and the ink for our printer and we\u2019re looking forward to adding these pictures to our collection.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t have a photo printer you can just take your CD to any of the numerous businesses that will print photos.\u00a0 You will have the release for photos right on the CD so there are no worries about copyright infringement.<\/p>\n

\"2013-09-12<\/a>As a bonus there is a CD included with the PhotoPass+ Archive Disc which includes stock photos of attractions and parks including some beautiful holiday pictures.\u00a0 The release is included in the case and is also right on the CD so you can even print some for your own use.<\/p>\n

Was it worth the $160.00 we paid for the PhotoPass+?\u00a0 A resounding YES!\u00a0 Having a professional photographer capture those special moments was priceless.\u00a0 As we\u2019re enjoying the moment with a character the photographer is continuously shooting pictures.\u00a0 If we had been taking the pictures we would have missed our two year old niece kneeling next to Cinderella with her hands in her lap crossed in the same way that Cinderella crosses hers.\u00a0 We wouldn\u2019t have the look of wonder on both of the little one\u2019s faces when they walked into the room to see \u201cPunzoo\u201d (Rapunzel to everyone else).<\/p>\n

Our new frame, given to us by our son and his girlfriend, is on the mantle waiting to show a memory of our family trip. They \u201cplussed\u201d the frame by having it engraved with \u201cWalt Disney World 2013\u201d across the top and \u201cThanks for the Magical Memories\u201d on the bottom.\u00a0 I have already picked out the special 8 x 10 photograph for that frame!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Debbie Boehm We\u2019ve all seen the PhotoPass photographers at Walt Disney World.\u00a0\u00a0 There are at least six of them between the Emporium and Cinderella Castle on Main Street every day.\u00a0 They\u2019ll even use your camera or cell phone to capture that special moment for you.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the things that I\u2019ve always thought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":6186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79555,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79076\/revisions\/79555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}