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| - I'll echo other comments about Emily and say that my fiance and I had a fantastic experience working with her. She made planning easy, was extremely generous with her time and help during our shoot, and did a fantastic job editing our photos.
PLANNING:
My fiance and I were initially a bit worried getting taking pictures in an unknown place with an unknown photographer, and Emily made the decision much easier. She understood what we wanted, made good suggestions, asked questions, and provided us lots of examples of her work. She emailed me a long list of places where we could get pics taken, along with links and some sample photos. She also helped us find a stylist when our hair and make-up person flaked out at the last minute.
THE SHOOT:
We got to Emily's place early in the morning at 4am because we wanted to get going before it was hot. We made a few embarrassingly novice mistakes - forgetting to press my fiance's dress, and having a stylist without having done a trial run. Emily and her assistent sacrificed extra sleep and time from the shoot by helping us steam the dress, and making helpful suggestions on make-up and hair.
Emily's style during the shoot was to stay fairly hands off, encouraging us to interact naturally and taking lots of pictures from different angles with different background. At one point some miniature buggies stopped at the side of the road, and Emily convinced the owner to let us take some photos in them. I appreciated the spontaneity, and they yielded some really good shots.
PHOTOS:
Emily got our photos back to us in a couple weeks, edited down to about 180 that she liked. She had touched up all of them, and obviously spent extra time on a few of the better ones. There were a few black and white shots, and a good variety of angles and interactions. We opted to order a hi-res copies, and she sent them immediately on a custom printed DVD. Overall, I was quite happy with her technical work.
CONCLUSION:
We were lucky to find Emily as our photographer. She was helpful, friendly, and a pleasure to work with.
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