Professional Photographs On-board

[Jess_Leigh]

Please forgive me if this topic has been covered anywhere. I've been on a few cruises in the past (Princess, Celebrity, Holland America, and Royal Caribbean). I just stepped off a (New Year's) Carnival cruise. I'm typically not the portrait taking kinda girl, but it being New Year's (and they still had a Christmas tree up), I decided that my dad and I should take some decent photos during a formal night. Of course the photographers took MANY, MANY photos and had all (good or bad) printed off for your review and then purchase or trash. I'm relatively certain that with Royal Caribbean, there was a digital viewer where you could decide if you wanted any. My memory is HORRIBLE, so I don't remember the prices/packages of anything. Could anyone throw in their knowledge of various cruise line photo packages? I would love the idea of a digital only purchase and let me deal with it when I get home. ProPortraits on Carnival are $22.99/each...which I don't think would bother me as bad if the process wasn't as wasteful. I have a Holland America cruise scheduled for February and would love info on them, but my curiosity is perked about all lines. Thanks guys! 

[Bucketlist22]

I haven’t been on my cruise on HAL yet but the info I saw showed the pics were digital. I’m glad of that too. I’m old school on pics but always hated throwing them away so digital is great in that regard. 

[eileeshb]

NCL have a digital option, I suspect they’re moving to digital views only on the newer ships. On epic they had workstations where you just scanned your room card to bring up digital images to pick your favourites, they still had the binders too but I didn’t check them to see if they still automatically print everything or only images you order. I don’t tend to order any images but as I’m moving up the latitudes levels there are discounts on photos so I may do in the future.