The booking: I booked Emily to do an outdoor "pregnancy reveal" for my husband and I. I jumped the gun a little and thought spring would come early (due to a couple of days of really nice weather.) Unfortunately the temperature dropped again. Every weekend (this was the only time that worked for my husband and I) we tried to get the shoot done it would either be too cold or poor weather. This went on for about a month before we could end up actually doing the shoot. Emily was SO understanding. She was super flexible with her schedule and easy to work with. She stayed in constant contact with me until the day of. Communication was great. I don't think she ever took more than 24 hours to respond but usually I'd hear back from her within a few hours. The photoshoot: I have nothing to complain about here. She was just as great in person as she was via email. She gave direction while not being too pushy. She also listened to all of my ideas and made sure that we got every shot I wanted The photos: They came out great. I asked Emily if I could pretty pretty please have some finished photos within the next 7 days. I had a friends and family event and wanted them for the occasion. That night I was surprised to receive an email from her letting me know that she's already edited a few photos and I can have a look at them! I also received most of the other photos in time for my event as I asked. Everyone loved them and I was even told that "this might be the best maternity shoot I've ever seen". Conclusion: I was originally hesitant to work with Emily due to some poor reviews (only a couple) on Yelp. My hesitancy was completely unwarranted. I highly recommend Emily Main Photography and look forward to working with her again in the future. read more

Emily was fantastic! She took the time to get perfect shots of our family with two sets of grandparents and a very excited labradoodle. The photos were absolutely perfect and I would absolutely work with Emily again! Catherine read more

I cannot recommend Emily enough! She is professional, extremely talented and easy to work with. She was able to capture such magical moments with my two crazy toddler boys! read more

I hired Emily Main to photograph my Son's First Birthday for 3 hours for $300 on April 4, 2015. Her portfolio looked good, a lot of available light photos that were in focus, etc. Her communication was good along with demeanor at my son's party When I received the photos that is really where the real disappointment lay. Majority of the photos were blurry and out of focus.. Major photos such as group photos were all partially out of focus. Major events at the party such as my son getting his birthday cupcake delivered to him and a group shot of myself, husband and son with my Daughter completely out of focus to the point where no details can be seen. There is little to no evidence of anyone at the party, there were 35 people at this party. A section outside from our shoot was not even included in the final edits. We are devastated at the lack of quality and attention given. For the cost of $300 its extremely disappointing to receive photos that are at an amateur level with little consideration made to fix the problem. We even tipped her at the event. I asked for Raw files so I could fix some of the blurry shots, she states she is "having major problems with her computer" When I emailed her about the problem she stated she was going to refund me the whole amount. ""I will send you the originals without my edits and also mail you a check for $300. Thanks, Emily" She then asked for my chase pay id, in which I did not have one. I waited for a week to see if she was going to refund me the money via check , like she stated. I received a email about how she was not going to refund me the money and that she "did the job she was paid for." I do not recommend anyone to book her services. Her positive reviews were clearly from people she knows as they were both written on the same day. There are so many other talented photographers that do follow through, that provide better customer service, that do not lie to their clients and the Better business bureau about sending refunds that were never sent. As of May 26, 2015 I have not heard, or received anything else from Emily Main Photography. She doesn't respond to emails. If anyone needs to see the set of blurry / soft photos please message me on YELP. I have now reported her to the BBB of Westchester County. Situation is pending as she is still refusing to compromise to a resolution and has not answered why major shots are out of focus and blurry. This is an issue of her technique and misrepresenting herself on her portfolio as someone who can take sharp images. IF you look at her recent portfolio you can see that major shots of clients are poorly focused. June 3, 2015 - we compromised on half back through the BBB complaint board through a resolution from her directly. She offered $150 back June 18, 2015 - refund of half the paying price still has NOT been received July 29, 2015 - She told the BBB that she would send a check twice already for $150. Check has not been received. Case has been reopened with the BBB. August 3, 2015 -- BBB attempted to contact her twice, no response. Sept. 21, 2015 - No response, no half refund like she suggested . BBB gives her a grade of D+ for poor response and no resolution to dispute. http://www.bbb.org/new-york-city/business-reviews/photographers/emily-main-photography-in-pelham-ny-154858 January 2016 - Nothing resolved - March 2016- Pretends to close her business on yelp, however is still running her business on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/E.mainPhotography/?fref=ts Please contact me if you have any issues, I am interested to see what we can do together to resolve this. read more

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In my opinion, I made one mistake with our wedding vendors and that was hiring Emily Main photography. The pictures were extremely disappointing, pictures out of focus, blurry, heads or feet cut off and a thick orange glaze over some of our pictures even though we had a beautiful sunny wedding day. Our experience was eerily similar to other negative reviews that I'm seeing online like google, the knot etc, unfortunately I'm finding them online after the fact. Don't get me started on customer service. As an Albanian woman who comes from a family of small business owners her customer service was disgraceful. I will admit I consider her creative, not when it comes to pictures, but when it comes to excuses for her delayed responses she's got plenty. I would never recommend to anyone. PS she submitted response to my review on a separate forum claiming she has a link with 4k pics....the link doesn't show 4 thousand of pics but par for the course with this one (eye roll). read more

I recently worked with Emily on a one year birthday party. He didn't exactly pose and make the task easy but Emily managed to capture some true gems. She even caught all of the little love details like the themed table runner, cupcakes and wall decor. Emily arrived on time, stayed for the specified timeframe and was very professional. In fact, I was very impressed with her professionalism. After much badgering she allowed me to offer some water but she was focused entirely on the task at hand. Prior to working with Emily, I asked about the turnaround time to receive finished photos. She shared the final photos 4 days earlier! She's the third photographer I've worked with in the past year and the first to deliver the final photos on time! She's also the only photographer to deliver the photos ahead of time! I didn't have to badger her with emails reminding her about the photos. I started to think that this was normal! I am pleased with the final photos!!! I enjoyed working with Emily and look forward to working with her in the future. I highly recommend her for your next event. read more

I worked with Emily for our engagement and wedding photos. She was easy to communicate with and was open to any ideas I had. She made our sessions comfortable, fun and relaxing. She made the process of wedding photos incredibly laid back which we appreciated so much during the busy time of planning a wedding. We hardly knew she was at the wedding but she seemed to capture it all. She was so easy to be around on the big day and the photos came out beautifully. She has a true vision and is a talented photographer. read more

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Emily is amazing! She did our engagement shoot, and engagement party! She even jumped a fence to get the perfect pictures for us! I couldn't recommend her more! We had a ton of fun with her being silly and kind of doing our own thing so it wasn't very statue like pictures! Will be using her until she stops doing photography! read more

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All I can say is perfection! Emily was so kind and professional. She knew exactly what we were looking for with out even having to ask! We love all of our pictures that she captured for us on our wedding day! I would recommend Emily to anyone!! Truly talented! read more

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We had a great experience with Emily Main. She came to photographer our daughter's 2nd birthday - a last minute request. She took an awesome shot that we want to use for our holiday cards and she was super accommodating and helped us to edit the photo so it could be used on the card. She also added snow to the photo to make it more festive!! read more

Emily recently photographed my son's first birthday. She was very easy to work with and I am happy with all the photos she took. I was in the wedding/event planning business before so I am very picky about who I work with. She was able to capture great images during somewhat chaotic situation, in this case a kid's birthday party. I will definitely recommend Emily. read more

I inquired on packages via email and specifically told her that I would not be having a wedding but that I wanted pictures of my fiancé (in wedding attire) for memories. She agreed and we scheduled a date and time. The day of the photoshoot she was surprised to see me in a wedding dress because she was under the impression that it was a maternity shoot. Throughout the process she kept saying how "thrown off" she was because she was expecting something else and it just made me feel super uncomfortable. This photoshoot took place October 2nd, I did not receive my proofs until December after multiple emails and text messages requesting them. Her answer was always that she was really booked but would get to them next week. I selected the photos I wanted and it took an additional month just for her to take off her watermark from the digital images. I asked her if she can make 2 of the images black and white and also asked for her to send over the pictures of my fiancé alone (which were never in the gallery) she said she would send them over and two weeks later when I attempted to follow up it appeared I had been blocked. She made the entire experience a negative one; I should have just taken the photos with my iPhone because those turned out better than the ones she charged me hundreds of dollars for (which I didn't receive in it's entirety) . If you are that booked which I doubt because the pictures were underwhelming, you should not book more clients and then have them wait months for digital copies of photos. The lack of communication, excuses and no response were completely unprofessional read more

I only learned about Emily when my original photographer needed to cancel the day before my son's 1st birthday party and referred me to her. Imagine the stress I felt not knowing if I'm going to find the right photographer with a style like the vision in my head. I gave her my expectations and she provided me with her photography packages. She was able to capture the essence of the party. We took some staged photos before the party while we were still fresh which turned out really well. During the party, she was there to capture some key moments like the cake smash and my son's expressions. And he didn't stay still for very long. Processing took a while; about two months to complete. But we were in constant communication and she was always available whenever I had a question. I didn't love every photo, but the ones that I did more than made up for it. read more

Emily was a pleasure to work with. She recently took family pictures for us and they came out wonderful. My daughter is very shy and she got her to smiles for the pictures. We look forward to working with her again. read more

My fiance found her in thumbtack which is a pretty good way to get a hold of people to do what you need to do. We didn't really look into her work to much (our big mistake) other then her portfolio. We were on a super tight budget and deadline as we're getting married in a few months and needed to get everything worked out. My fiance did most of the talking with her over phone and email. We finally got a date for pictures and went ahead and did it. We will admit that we are an odd ball for what we wanted, but nothing that most photographer can't handle and have some fun. We wanted something different so we went to the woods on a river. She seems to be a great person and all just didn't really conect with us. We started the pictures and we had stated to her that we wanted to do candid photos and nothing posed. We also wanted her to really take charge and direct us on what to do and make sure that we looked good in the photos. Nothing of that sort really happened. We did a 2hr shoot that we were never told about how much she would actually charge us. When she spoke with my fiance she told us that she would charge us $250. After everything was said and done she told us that because we did over 2hrs and in 2 different locations(down street from each other) and changed outfits that it would cost us $450. Which was never what we agreed to. She never said any of this while we were taking photos. Before the 2 hrs were up. we could tell that she was done and wanted to leave. To be fair it was a hot day, but money is money and we were paying up. We told her that we needed pictures or a few pictures right away for the invitations. She said that she would have them as soon as possible. She gave us 3 which we immediately knew that we were not going to be happy with them. They really didn't fit anything that we had asked for and we looked terrible. We then waited for the rest of the photos and we were not happy at all with a single one of them. We found maybe one or two that we could venture to use. All of the photos where super bright and you could tell that there had been a ton of over editing done to them. We wanted the more natural look to them. Some of them were even way too dark to where you couldn't see anything because if the black and white affect. My fiance got so mad and raged that she wrote a nagative review on thumbtack. I felt pretty bad and wanted to just be done with everything and she kept asking us to fix it because this was her business and it would affect it. I'm never the person to want to do harm to anyone or there money making business so I went and rewrote a review. We also paid her and really did not want to, but what goes around comes around so we paid up. We were so done with this that we just said screw it and had our freind who took photo class in high school do out pictures at the beach. Mid you this guys are young and did it more to help us out because of what had happened. Let me tell you that not for nothing, but all they're pictures came out better then hers even without any editing done to them. She emailed me and said that she had notice that we didn't download any of the imagines that she had taken and to do it before a date because they would come down off the site. I really didn't want any of the photos, but I had spent a butt load of the money $450 for pictures that we'll never use so I just picked a few and download them. My fiance wants nothing to do with them or her or her work. I don't blame her. We really got the short end of the stick here. It is what it is. We live and learn. She also asked me to copy and paste the better review that I left on thumbtack, but I can't I'm sick of not voicing what is the truth. If you want good picture look around, if you don't care and need something give it a chance. We sure won't. It's a good thing we saw this now because we were thinking of using her for our wedding photos. That would have been a disaster.... The truth hurts sometimes. Good luck. read more

My home is full of portraits taken by Emily Main. She is able to capture the spirit and emotion in a 2d image that brings these photos to life. Check out her Facebook fan page to see unbelievable examples of true artistry. read more

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Emily does an incredible job of taking photos of families, couples, pets, etc. She is always professional, pays great attention to detail and puts much time and energy into delivering a quality work product. Emily photographed my sister's 40th birthday - as well as my husband's 40th birthday - and the photographs looked as though they were taken out of magazine. She has incredible technique and her photographs are always, always in focus. I plan to use her for both personal - and professional use - again! read more

I unfortunately had a very similar situation to Laura M, which started in the summer of 2015. She rescheduled multiple times, gave us a hard time with selecting the birth announcements, took 2 months to get them straightened out and delivered, and then only delivered half the amount of images I had paid for. Back in October 2015, she agreed to refund half of my money... And then promptly started ignoring me and all methods of contact I have tried to initiate with her. It is the end of January 2016 right now, and I have not received my refund. Like Laura, I am contacting the BBB and I recommend that no one use Emily if you want to get what you've paid for. read more

I had recently hired Emily Main Photography for a family session. With multiple family members involved in this shoot, picking a date became some sort of fete. Emily was more than accommodating to our multiple schedule changes. She was professional, prompt to emails, phone calls regarding basic questions and offered different ideas to help make this session memorable. Dealing with grown adults and children is one thing, but making them all stay still, smile and look all in the SAME direction at the SAME time, is another thing... a miracle (in my mind). We were thrilled with the photos and were even more surprised with the action shots of the family just spending time together. She captured some great memories between the kids that the adults were missing out on. We were given many different types of photos, more than I had planned and was grateful for that. Everyone was able to choose the different photos/style they wanted. Can't wait until the next photo session with Emily Main Photography! I was actually referred by a friend who had Emily Main Photography at her child's christening and saw the great work with groups of people and babies of all ages. Unfortunately I see her Yelp review is not visible or recommended- which is bizarre how this system works. read more

Emily Main recently took photos for me. She was professional and a pleasure to work with. I'm thrilled with the way the photos came out. I would absolutely hire her again! read more

Taking photos of two active little boys is not easy, but Emily Main has managed to take some of the most beautiful photos of my sons. She's captured some very sweet moments of the two of them playing together and some lovely family shots as well. Her beach photos are especially amazing. People often comment that the family photos Emily took of us look like they "are out of a magazine." Thanks Emily Main Photography! read more

We hired Emily for our Wedding this past October. She was recommended through a friend and we were so pleased that she was. From the beginning she was very accomodating with schedules and had a lot of patiece dealing with my father and all of his questions. When it rained on our engagement shoot day she offered to redo the photos at no cost. The day of the wedding she was so great and captured all the photos I wanted. Her job has certainly not stopped there, she followed up after the wedding with tons of sneak peak pictures and even gave us a canvas photo as a gift. We have been truly happy that we hired her and looked forward to working with her again! read more

We had our son's Baptism this past weekend and hired Emily to shoot the occasion in Nassau County. I hired her after I saw her engagement shots of my best friend, which were stunning. I couldn't be happier with the experience we had with her. Emily showed utmost professionalism from start to finish. Her turnaround with the pictures was so quick! Most importantly, Emily also has such a sweet and sensitive demeanor with children. My son was so sick with a cold. She was patient and made sure he was comfortable. Emily will definitely be called again. read more

Emily does a great job working with children. She took photos of my grandsons that came out perfect. I would recommend Emily for all photo needs. You will not be sorry. read more