Value for performance I can assure anyone reading this that you're searching for the perfect…read morephotography group has ended. I myself am a headshot photographer and have worked with a good amount of working headshot, commercial, and food photographers. So when I look through other people's portfolios my instant reaction is, could I do it better. And when I'd seen Jim Kennedy's, and the photographers he worked with, I crossed my fingers and hoped it wouldn't be insanely expensive, and to my surprise, it was not. I know the average person sees wedding photographer prices and they wonder why they'd ever pay that, but I assure you, having been in or around a hundred weddings, having shot them begrudging myself, pay the most for the photographer. Because the cake, the flowers, the filet of fish and whatever else won't matter the next day, or the next year or the next decade. But good pictures will matter. Save money by skipping a videographer, you can get one but I promise you'll spend X amount, watch the video when you get it, share it, and then throw it in a draw. But the pictures will be with you, and you'll see them daily.
Okay, on to our session. Or engagement shoot with Amber was perfect. I've been around cameras for some time and my now wife generally dislikes them and doesn't look natural for them. Amber was perfect, working with us to get everything we needed for an engagement shoot within an hour or so. And not just what we needed, pictures we love that is my cell phone lock screen and pictures in our house. Then came the wedding, or what was supposed to be before 2020 wrecking balled it. I called Jim Kennedy when our wedding was canceled and he said this isn't an issue, and honestly, it wasn't. If you don't know a photographer can easily say, I was booked on this date, you changed it, I can't fill it with another client so, sorry. He said, what can I do to help. We set up or now a mini 30-minute wedding instead of our 8 hours ordeal (pushed back) and Amber showed up and in my opinion, worked the daylights out of her camera and got amazing shots. We had a church wedding. Then we didn't, we got moved to the front yard, then moved to a small courtyard at high noon with wood awnings that cast zebra shadows on everyone. So, seeing that, my expectations were not high. Then, we had masks, also news to us. And yet, we love our pictures. Mask, no mask, whatever. We love them. As a photographer myself, she's significantly better than me and most everyone I know, and that's why I can't thank her enough and am so happy to have worked with her and Jim Kennedy Photographers. I have great hope our larger postponed wedding will be as we (my wife) imagines it. But if it's not, and it's for some reason next to a dumpster behind an I Hop, I still think they could pull out amazing photos. One's I look at and smile on a daily basis. So, yes, 5 stars, all around, perfect, wonderful, the best. Whatever you need to read, trust me, it is true that they will capture your special day like no one else.