Portrait Gallery From Bella Pictures

The Oakridge Mall location replaced the Picture People who had been there for years. We gave them a go, and were very pleased. There was no sitting fee, and the photographer got some great shots. They have less props than other places, but we brought our own toys, which is probably better anyway.
I’m marking it down because it closed so abruptly on 6-​22-​2012 that we had to scramble to pick up our pictures early the very day they were delivered, or else go to Sears to get them. It was sad that the crew that had just been working so hard to take family portraits only weeks earlier were going to be unemployed almost as soon as we left — in a location that had been there for less than a year.

I work here and I feel like I need to give my honest opinion of this business and as you can see… one star. The people that work here are great. Most of them have a passion for photography and one of them, specifically me, has a photography business that is striving and has learned quite a bit from working at this place. But, the business itself is garbage. For one, the prices are unreasonable. Everything is so overpriced here. The studio itself needs new backdrops due to wear and tear but the corporation that runs this studio has no urge to invest anymore money into their studios so that more profit can be made. The fact that this location used to be a Picture People is confusing. The current studio does not offer one hour lustre finish printing where the Picture People did so lots of customers come in and are disappointed to hear that the photos will not be ready on the same day. On top of all of these downfalls, the lab where the photos are physically printed does some of the sloppiest work I’ve seen in the industry. The ink has had issues repeatedly, the cropping is always altered and the whole idea of having to wait for photos to come within 10 – 15 business days is ridiculous.