For those of us paying for photos of babies, kids, or annual family pictures, we frequently are less interested in getting One Awesome Photo, (or three), but ra

For those of us paying for photos of babies, kids, or annual family pictures, we frequently are less interested in getting One Awesome Photo, (or three), but rather in documenting a shared time together. Yes, I'd like to have the good copies: spend your time on those. But I'd also like the outtakes where my son is picking his nose, or my daughter is trying to peel my eyelids off. I don't want to have them hanging on my wall, but which do you think I and my grandkids will want to see in sixty years? I care about the talent of the photographer, because I'd like one or two good photos, but we recommend her to our friends due to her behavior, accomodation of two unruly and not-always-cooperative kids, as well as her ability to find the good shots. We don't expect perfect pictures. Our facebook friends will not know who the photographer is, and live across the country anyway, so there's no risk of them ever being a customer of hers even if they did know. We don't plan to sell them, etc. The answer, of course, is to find a photographer who is willing to negotiate a good price on the service of taking excellent pictures as well as on access to the data.