South Coast Photographic, Lake Forest CA

This studio is ripping you off of your money. Aside from the sitting fee of $91 for a grad pic and or a $35 sitting fee for a yearbook pic (what school requires). You won't get any photo print or digital if you won't pay an extra $83 for one print or $175 for one digital copy. Take note ONE. I can't believe people would give more than one star for a review of this studio. Maybe they did the review before they received the final output. At first, yes, they are nice in the studio. But wait till they let you pick your images. Extra charges on top of another. What a scam. Parents and students, just pay for the $35 service fee as what the school requires. Stop there.

Literal scam, you have to pay them $125 for a "sitting fee" which is like a down payment then after you take the pictures they present you with a $275 price to download all 20 of your pictures, such a ripoff.

The location is hard to find. Follow the signs, it's on the corner once you enter the parking lot, the buildings sign is high up so you may not see it from your car. However that aside, service is fast and professional. The photographers are nice and efficient as well.

The high school only has one option to get senior pictures done and South Coast Photographic is it. $38 to get your picture in the yearbook. Nothing more. It is like a mill. Pictures are just okay - not great or outstanding, but the pricing is very, very expensive. We quickly decided to get senior portraits done elsewhere. For the kind of photos one would be much better off going to JC Penny portrait studio where you can get a reasonable deal on nice photos and a selection of poses. We haven't chosen a place for our photos yet, but this place is way too expensive to even consider.

The photos come out alright, but the pricing is ridiculous. The sitting fees are huge, and the print prices make purchasing photos here unattainable for all but the very well-to-do. It is $32 just to have a quick pic taken for the yearbook only.

I came here to get my senior portraits done. The service was good, and the people were nice and enthusiastic. The photographer did a great job but I was unhappy with the pictures. I went back to get them retaken and I liked those much better. They also took my photo I. D.picture for school on registration day back in August. I am very pleased with their work and will use them again in the future.

Great place for photos. My son missed his Senior photo day at school and I had to take him here to makeup the for his senior Yearbook. Easy to find, the service is quick and the wait time no more than 10 minutes to be called.

We were here to make the official picture for the school. The place was well organized and the pictures look quite professional.

The studio lost the photos of my high school senior and we had to redo them. For the first session she was excited and ready. By the second makeup session, my high school senior was in the middle of college applications, fall sports and lots of deadlines. It was very unprofessional of a studio to "lose" an entire session.

Good customer service at the desk along with friendly and professional service by the photographer. Very nice studio with a pleasant atmosphere.

Forced to pay $35 just to get my daughter's picture in her high school yearbook. Entire display, and I mean every picture in their studio, looked right out of the 80's. The minimum wage employee who took the money might as well have been a recorded message. Photo shoot took 3 min and 18 seconds from when my daughter stood up to go back and came back to the lobby. What a scam.

The picture taken by the same company for her ID card in the school cafeteria is ten times better than their "studio" shots. (Which is not saying much.)

Shame on the high schools for supporting this kind of terrible service.