I wish I could give Vinod and his business 0 stars! He is very unreliable and makes shallow promises! It took a year and a half to get my wedding pictures, which were awfully edited. Steer far far away from Vinod. read more

When we hired Vinod we were expecting great service as the cost was on the higher side for wedding photographers. What we received the opposite. Do yourself a favor and don't hire Vinod. You will be highly disappointed as he is not professional, routinely shows up late or not at all, doesn't answer his phone, makes up excuses as to why he missed an appointment, and then worst of all never got me the edited images from my wedding. I'll start with our engagement photo session where we were scheduled to start at 12 PM at his studio and when we got there it was closed. We called him and his wife's cell phones several times and left messages, but no one would call us back. Finally he called 45 minutes later and said he was on the way. We took a few pictures in his studio and then we went to an outside location for the remainder of the pictures. He was to mail us the images on a disc for us to pick which ones we wanted in the guest book for the wedding. Several weeks went by and we never received the disc. I called, called, e-mailed, and called with no response. Then finally he responded and said he did mail them and it must have gotten lost in the mail. I told him I would come up and pick it up from the studio and we arranged a time to meet, but guess who didn't show up for that meeting! His wife was there but she said she didn't know anything about the disc. I e-mailed him and said that he should just pick the images for our guest signing book as we were approaching the wedding date. I asked him to make sure I did get a digital copy of the images that he touched up. On the wedding day he did get to the venue on time which was good as I was worried based on our previous experiences with him. He broke one of his lens's and kept mentioning how upset he was and how much it cost. It must have really upset him because the pictures flat out sucked. Anyone with an SLR could have taken these pictures. In fact we like the pictures some of our guests took more than his. Well after the wedding we met him in his studio and he handed me 2 discs with over 800 raw images and told me to pick 80 for the album. I was a little shocked by this as our other photographer for our Christian Church wedding hand-picked the best images and only sent us the edited images. Yes, we had 2 weddings I asked him to go through and cut the number of pics down which he did not do. Finally we went through 800+ images and picked the ones we wanted in the album. Then he edited the images and e-mailed us a proof of the album. We were really unhappy with the cheesy effects he added to some of the photos and the layout of the album, so we asked if we could come up to the studio and show him what we wanted. We scheduled a time and when we showed up to his studio it was closed and he wasn't answering his phone. After an hour we left and a day later he called to apologize citing some emergency he had. We went back the next week and adjusted the album how we wanted it. Then a few days later he e-mails me the proof and he added back all the stuff we asked him to take out. When we left the studio the album was perfect. So we went back up again and sat with him to fix the album the way we wanted it, and finally received a copy of the proof of the album. He ordered it and we were to come back up in 2 weeks to pick it up. Well when we came to pick it up some of the images were different in the printed album than our final proof. You would think that he would have caught this and told us not to come up. At first was hesitant to send the printed albums back but he finally agreed to and 2 weeks later we got the correct albums. Now here is the part that really makes me upset. I mentioned on numerous occasions that I was expecting a disc with the edited images used for the guest signing book and wedding album. Several weeks went by after we had the albums and still nothing. Finally he said he had them all ready for me to pick up in his studio. When I arrived he didn't recall the conversation and stared digging through some portable hard drives looking for the pictures. After an hour I was growing impatient and he said that he would find them and mail them to me. Again nothing arrived in the mail. I called, called, and called again and finally he called me back and asked me come and pick them up. When I went up he wasn't there and the studio was closed. He got back to me a few days later and we arranged for another time for me to come up and get edited images. When I went up that time he again was not there but his wife was. She said she knew nothing of the disc and I left again empty handed. He finally did mail me a disc but it was the unedited 800+ images I already had. I called and once again explained I wanted digital copies of the edited images and he said he would get them to me. I never received them and as a last ditch effort sent him several e-mails over the next few months. I never heard back and finally gave up. read more

This review is long overdue, but I think others should be warned... If I could change one thing about my wedding, it would be the photographer (Vinod). I don't even know where to begin. First of all, he is on the pricier side. This would be fine if his service/product justified it. But it didn't...the service/product was HORRIBLE. There is enough stuff to stress about with a wedding...and he only made it worse. A couple of weeks before my wedding, I sent Vinod an email with the exact address of the wedding venue (which was out if town), the schedule of where he needed to be and at what times, and my family members' phone numbers because I didn't want him contacting me that weekend as I would obviously have other stuff going on. I told him to be at the hotel to take pictures of me getting ready and exactly what time. He calls me (first mistake, as I told him to contact my family instead of me that weekend) about 2.5 hours before asking for directions...um, what!?! He's had the address for two weeks, and should have looked up the directions prior...and more importantly, it takes 3.5 hours to get to the venue from Atlanta, and he only had 2.5 hours!! Needless to say, I never got pictures of me getting ready for my wedding day! Plus, he was so frazzled trying to take pictures of me and my husband, our families and the venue...all because we needed to be at the ceremony at a certain time and now we had to rush through the pictures since he was late getting there. Also, he was very pushy and rude during the events...he didn't listen to what I or my family told him we wanted in terms of where we wanted him to stand, etc...we didn't need his attitude! Another thing, we had to follow up with him and his wife NUMEROUS times to get our images after our event. It would be okay to have to follow up a couple of times...but I'm talking at least a dozen times. Here is one of many examples: He gives you all the unedited images, which we had to go through and pick out the ones we wanted edited...it would have been nice if he went ahead and did that on his own, but it's no big deal. Anyway, we chose the images we wanted and gave them back to him on a flash drive. He said he would edit them and give them back. Weeks later I never heard from him, so I followed up. Turns out that he can't find the flash drive we gave him with the images we chose! We had to go through all the many images again and chose the pictures we wanted again and take the flash drive to his studio again! So we start that process of choosing the images again and it was ridiculous, so halfway through I call him to double check everywhere for the flash drive we already gave. The next day he let us know that he had it the whole time! I was glad we didn't have to sort through the images again, but so annoyed at his irresponsible nature. Also, he didn't care to suggest any good or artistic poses (like most photographers have in mind). Me, my family and friends had to come up with poses and Vinod was there doing a lazy job. In the end, I was not happy with most of the pictures and wished he had given better ideas. The best picture was one that a friend came up with the pose. When I see other people's wedding pictures, I feel like mine are pretty lame...which is not how you want, for pictures should help show the memories of the special day. These are just a few reasons why Vinod was a horrible choice for such an important day. He's too pricey, doesn't listen, rushes you, and just doesn't have the time to give the proper attention for these type of events anymore (he did a Bollywood type event after my wedding, and it seems that type of stuff is what he chose to spend his time and attention on). Save your time, money, patience and sanity...I wish I had not used Vinod. read more

So i was looking around photo and video for my wedding. i had spoke to a few others before i saw vinods work. his work looks great on his website but he SUCKS. yes he is the owner but i don't think that he knows how to take pics. for my photoshoot i had 2 photographers and i loved the pics from the other photographer (i think his name was Rahimi). all the pics i picked out for my guest sign book was the ones that Rahimi took. and since my wedding was a sikh wedding i told him that it would take place in a gurudawara n he said that he had done Sikh weddings before. so i thought i would not have to tell him the details n stuff that will happen during the wedding. so a few days before the wedding he didn't even have a video person for my wedding. so like a day before i guess he found a video guy for me. I'm not sure how his work is because i have never seen his work so I'm just hoping that the movies will come out good. so for the day of the wedding i have vinod to go the grooms house for pictures and the pics i saw either the peoples heads is cut off or the body is cut off.. and since i have Rahimi when i was getting ready and pics with my bridesmaids were perfect. and then for the wedding part itself vinod took the pics and theres so many pics that he did not make that was important. one part there is NO PICS of is with my father handed me the pala from my husband and that is the most important part of the wedding. so i asked him theres no pics of this n that n he tells me WELL I WAS THERE.. . but ill check again.. i was like YES I WAS THERE ALSO N IT HAPPENED BUT THERE R NO PICS IN IT. so I'm just hoping that he makes the albums right and the video come out good also.. yes he charges way to much and his work SUCKS.. one thinG i would like to tell you guys is if anyone wants to hire him for a SIKH wedding please DONT!!!!! you will regret it later.. I'm not happy with his work but i guess it is what it is.. so rather then to hire him i would just pay someone else little more and get someone out of state.. atlas i would been happy with my wedding pictures. read more