Hockmeyer Studios

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I cannot understand how this company is still around. First let me start off by saying as a photographer the pictures this company takes are a joke for the prices they charge. They take stationary pictures in well-lit areas and they still come out poorly for what should be an easy picture to take. An iPhone x or google pixel 2 could take better pictures in landscape mode than they can. The cheapest package they have is $20 for 1 5 by 7 picture. Now this might not seem bad but let’s say in today’s digital age you want digital copies of the pictures. Now that is $60. Now for all the pictures you say? No only one digital copy. Now with the average of 6 pictures taken that would be $360 to get the files for all the pictures of your son or daughter. What makes this even worse is that when you purchase the pictures it gives you the impression that you will receive all the images. When I called the lady said that it would have said downloads if it was multiple pictures not download. The manager seemed to think that one letter difference was enough. They know you will have to buy them to because they are the only close up pictures you can get of your children during an even such as graduation.
To top it off, they do little to no Photoshop of the pictures they take. The most they do is blacken out the background. Now, this may seem hard to do but I can tell you that this is very easy to do with any Photoshop program. At most you would need a YouTube tutorial.

Now a STUDENT can take a better picture than any picture they can. I highly recommend avoiding this business. It seems they prey on those who do not understand photography. Now you might be under the impression that this business and its photographers are not artists. They are con artists

Pros:
-Photographers are well dressed

Cons:
-Obscene pricing
-Bait and switch with digital copies
-Website is out of 2007
-Poor image quality (A newer iPhone is better)

I recently had my younger childrens spring photos taken at their school. They came out wonderful! Better than Sears or the JC Penney ones we had taken. Reasonably priced too. I have 4 children and have never had a problem.

Not good. 2nd year in a row bad school pictures. Rather have Lifetouch back.

Yet once again I can not use my son's school pictures for Christmas cards. Hockmeyer Studios is horrible. Each year my son has had his school picture taken he has to go back for retakes. not quite sure if the people taking these pictures are photographers or not but I don't really think so. This year there was 2 shadows on each side of my son's nose (nope he does not have a big nose either) last year I ordered online requested a red back drop pictures came back with a green back drop I double checked yup I placed the order correctly called left them a VM and emailed them they never responded. Several years ago I had my son's hair perfect, yup gelled dried and hair sprayed. they gave an 8 year old a comb and told him to comb his hair. who does that? knowing the teacher I asked her and she said nope his hair was still perfect. she was surprised when he came back with his hair combed. I would not recommend Hockmeyer to anyone and I wish our school system would ask parents what they thought. I posted a comment on my facebook page an hour ago and I already have 10 comments with the same issues. my son is in the 8th grade now and there is only 1 school picture of the school pictures he has had taken that I like on the first shot and it is not me being picky it is shadows, bad angling and bad photo taking. Probably so they can make an extra dollar so you have to order the touch ups. Bad business, and bad customer service.

I only gave a star because I had to otherwise they would have 0 stars from me

Hockmeyer studios have been photographing my children for years through the Amesbury School System. I have always been completly satisfied with the photographs

they have taken.