The yearbook is a place to memorialize one’s school year; from sports pages to student life, every page changes.
This change includes the senior portraits, which have gone from a traditional headshot to a three-quarter photo.
Rather than getting a simple headshot from the shoulders up, seniors get to choose a body shot from the knees up with poses that differ from standing up with our hands on our hips, to hands on our sides, to our arms being crossed. It gets boring looking at simple headshots every year, so getting the choice between three different shots makes the senior section creative.

The three-quarter picture is a change and change is not a bad thing. If we start with little things like this then imagine how amazing and different our yearbook could be. One thing that is concerning with the three-quarter pictures is that people claim that they look awkward with the poses that they have for us. If they gave us a bigger option of poses to pick from, maybe people would like them better.
Change is always uncomfortable at first but people will get used to this after a while. One thing that I like is how we can see everyone’s different outfits. This is just another way to show off our fun unique personalities. With all the different poses that we get to pick from, this provides a cluster of different personalities to spice up the senior section. We are also going to be unique and different than some other schools, no senior section will be the same. Even on our campus, if the senior three-quarter portraits continue on throughout the years, then no senior section will match from the year before, there will be a different amount of the same poses and a different order to them.

Kids will get to show off their personalities in different ways for the years to come.  
We can also project a confident look with how we stand. I think that as young adults we are looking for ways to show our confidence and find a new way to project a mature essence.

Another thing that is enjoyable about the new pictures is how different we are than the rest of the classes. All throughout high school, we are blended in with different grade levels and this is a chance to be different, as we are the seniors and we are moving out of high school. This was a place where we were just looked over but now we are being noticed and we are being different than everyone else.
When we look back at our yearbooks in 10, 20, or 30 years from now, we can see how much we have changed, from our hairstyle to how we dressed.

Being different is not a bad thing, showing that we as seniors are moving onto a new level in our lives can start with something as simple as moving on from the classic head shot, to a more mature portrait. The new portraits give us a mature presence. As the senior class is moving out of high school, we are also moving into an adult world, where having a professional portrait of ourselves can come in handy, with things like job profiles, or business cards. Being able to take a mature portrait while in a studio setting can create personal experience that can come in handy in the professional world. As a whole the new senior portraits bring a unique and fun vibe to the senior section while keeping that mature level of confidence that the senior class holds. This is new change and even though some students do not like it or find it weird, it is different and unique. We are always getting told to be different or to be unique, so why not change our yearbook pictures to be as different as we can?