Lack of funding is the main reason for poor school photos. Most schools don’t have enough money to hire a professional photographer or even pay teachers enough to buy basic supplies. The school photo booth can only take a few photos per student. If they do have a professional photographer,they will charge an arm and a leg for their services,so they are unlikely to use it. They will instead use a cheaper photographer who can do a decent work but is unlikely to produce professional-quality photos. The photos may not reflect the student’s true appearance.
Even though school photos are no longer cool,many parents struggle to make their children look good in them. Although many parents believe it is the responsibility of the school photographer,most of the time it is not. It used to be considered uncool to take photos,but it’s becoming more popular among children,especially when there are a lot of adults trying to harass them.
After the first photo is taken,the second portrait is taken. Eddy panics when he sees the mirror. Ed tries to calm him but can’t tell Eddy anything positive about the photo. While waiting for the next frame,Eddy slumps over a music stand,but he doesn’t show the photo to his friends. The photos are then shown to his friends. He has a momentary clarity.
Ed finds the copier and stuffs it in Eddy’s locker. He then goes to lunch and returns to the locker room to find pieces of paper with copies of Eddy’s photo in each locker. Edd is then able to browse the rest of school and see a huge stack of photos. Edd is left wondering what happened to his photo. It’s a moment for self-discovery.
Although school portrait retouching has been around for a while,it is becoming more common. Teenage girls are increasingly using Photoshop to enhance photos. In the meantime,a travel blogger has taken to Twitter to lambast the process,and an outraged mum has taken to TikTok to denounce the practice on social media. In Tampa,Fla.,a mother noticed her child’s missing freckles in her daughter’s school photos. The school photographer offered to do a basic retouching of her daughter’s photos. The freckles were removed.