Review: PixiFoto Family Photographer

Review of the PixiFoto Friends and Family Package

PixiFoto is a national chain of photographers that specialise in family portraits, so we just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to attend a photo shoot with them to review their Friends and Family package.

Our family includes Alice (4), Sophie (2) and William (1). If you’re reading this, chance are you know just how hard it can be to get a lovely, smiley photo of a child when they are in a new environment, with new people and under pressure to perform. And if you have more than one child, then you will definitely know how hard it is to get a photo of everyone smiling at the same time. So you will understand when I say that it was with some trepidation that we went along to the photo shoot with PixiFoto. Hopefully, we said to each other as we set off, the photographer will be a woman. The girls are much better with women.



Our photographer for the day was Dale. Most definitely a man. And at first glance he looked quite serious. My heart sank – we were in for an hour or more of crying, tantrums and general playing up.

And then he opened his mouth. Amazingly, the children warmed to him instantly! Blowing raspberries and pulling silly faces, he seemed to have no shame, and we were incredibly grateful for that fact. Not only did he build a really quick rapport with the children, but he moved quickly from one shot set up to the next. The PixiFoto Friends and Family package gives you a lot of pictures – enough for, well, your family and friends. So we had a lot of poses to run through and we were worried the children would get bored and tired before we were done. We needn’t have worried though – Dale is a quick worker. As soon as he’d taken a picture he was happy with, he moved on and rattled through the different shots at a good pace.

After about an hour, we were done. Normally, you get the chance to wander round Mothercare/ELC for half an hour while the PixiFoto team prepare your images for viewing, but we knew that by then our children would be tired and hungry and, quite frankly, a nightmare. The team were very understanding, and we arranged to return the next morning to choose the shots we wanted.

The choosing process took about 45 minutes and I’m pleased to say Dale managed to get enough great shots that we had a hard time picking the ones we wanted. PixiFoto offer a variety of framing options for your pictures which are completely optional, and range from the classic frame to a more modern acrylic mount. We picked our prints up two weeks later and we’re really pleased with them – I know a couple of grandmas who are going to be very pleased with their presents this year!

PixiFoto have studios in Mothercare stores across the country. See the locations for PixiFoto in Northampton, PixiFoto in Leamington Spa, PixiFoto in Coventry and PixiFoto in Milton Keynes. To find your local studio, visit www.pixifoto.co.uk.

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