A trick to getting villager pictures!

[Yachiru Hatori]

Oh wow I didn't know that you could get Photos in this game, I thought it was only posters

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

still haven't got anything higher than 650 from my boy yet, i'm not giving up though

 

[Bioness]

I'm not sure if this works all the time. I got 650 bells for fruit from Julian up until he gave me the final Smug reaction, then finally his picture.

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

I'm not sure if this works all the time. I got 650 bells for fruit from Julian up until he gave me the final Smug reaction, then finally his picture.

hmm really? i've gotten like all the reactions except a few snooty and uchi ones, i wonder why im not getting any pictures

 

[BalloonFight]

Just wanted to mention this has been working for me. I am usually getting villager pictures after they start frequently giving 750 bells for the fruit. Often time it takes quite a while once they mark is achieved, but mixing in talking to them twice a day + mailing fruit seems to help as well.

 

[raqball]

I've got 2 so far just by talking to them everyday and giving them non native fruit.. I just got Lolly's today and had already gotten Lily's.. In Lolly's case (today) she never gave me more that 650 for the fruit. Today I gave her fruit and bam, she hands me her photo.... Both sweethearts and I now have both their photos..

Going to make an area on my wall to hang them..

 

[Rosch]

I might just make it a daily habit of giving everyone a non-native fruit rather than save scumming. Unless I'm in the mood.

 

[raqball]

I might just make it a daily habit of giving everyone a non-native fruit rather than save scumming. Unless I'm in the mood.

That's all I've done.. While I am sure what the OP suggests works, I'd not do / try it.. To worried about corrupted data and loosing everything...

 

[iGotNoiPad]

don't give up! Also, wrap your fruits in wrapping paper, as this gives an extra friendship bonus. And try to talk to them every day (in addition to giving them a gift), as this increases friendship as well. Supposedly the talk friendship bonus increases exponentially if you talk to them every single day.

Thanks for the encouragement! After posting that, a day later I got Marina's photo after giving a non-native fruit. She usually gives me 650 per fruit so I am still not sure how OP got above 1k bells per fruit. I also started to talk to my villagers more than twice (once for gifting, once for just talking) and I gotten more requests which definitely improve friendship. I am pretty sure once you are in a high enough friendship with the villager, it is up to pure luck and time for them to gift their photos.