My experience with DFinney Photography was just that. A whole entire experience. This was more than…read morejust a photoshoot. From the day of booking she sends you guides and resources to help you along the way. Her process has both finesse and years of experience woven all throughout it. She sends you a questionnaire in advance because she really cares and wants to get a good grasp of the vision you want for your photos, along with what you are looking to accomplish with your shoot. She gives advice on everything from how picking the proper undergarments affects your photos, to reminders on not forgetting to eat the morning of so that your energy stays up! She really has come across almost every scenario in her time in this business and in turn, uses what she's learned from it all to help better her client's experience. One of my favorite things is how excited she gets as she's taking photos. This is no perfunctory exercise for her, it's truly her passion. Which leads not only to making you look beautiful, but she makes you feel beautiful as well! It is no accident that every one of her photos look so vibrant and amazing. Until you are a client, you only see the finished product. Once you book with her you come to truly understand that her consistent high quality photographs are no accident. They speak to more then just her artistic talent, they also speak to her personal investment in every person she works with, her years of experience, her passion for what she does, and her exceptional business model! I highly recommend working with her!

After admiring her work online, my fiance & I have booked DFinney Photography for our wedding…read more Danielle was amazing from our first email interaction. Her wedding packages include a lot, including an engagement photo session which was a lot of fun! She is so easy going and down to earth, while making the expectations for the engagement shoot and wedding coverage clear. She gave advice on what to wear and recommended a great MUA to use. Our session went really well and she put us at ease during the whole thing. and of course, the photos looked AMAZING! We got so many compliments from family and friends, and I will use the photos for our Save-The-Dates. I'm so looking forward to the photos from the wedding, and Danielle's advice on day of timing and connections to vendors will help so much as we wrap up planning. My fiance and I both work in the visual arts so we have high expectations for our wedding photographer and Danielle delivers in every way :) It's great to have an aspect of the wedding we don't have to stress about at all - we're 100% confident the wedding photos we get will be fantastic.

We have used Sara twice for family photos and have been thrilled with the results. She is fantastic…read moreat photographing young kids. She knows how to be silly enough to make photo shoots fun for kids and let their personalities come through in the pictures. She even got some amazing photos of our very squirmy puppy. Sara makes the sessions really fun for everyone and is overall wonderful to work with!

We are very happy with the photos she took for our newborn! We asked specific posing and she gave…read moreus what we wanted! Also, Sara was very nice to work with. Thank you! :)

We hired Karen Sayre of Eikon Photography to photograph our wedding and to photograph 3 separate…read moresessions of our new born baby. The three sessions were new born photographs, 6 month old photographs, and maternity photographs during pregnancy. The overall experience was awful. Starting with the wedding event, Karen was late. When we recieved the photos, they were not edited at all. The next series of events were even worse, the maternity photographs and new born photographs were LOST. We did not find this out until months after the fact and Karen was only willing to offer more photo sessions free of charge in place of the photographs we already took. Obviously, with the experiences we already had been through, we opted not to have any more photo sessions with Karen.

I had a book-jacket head shot by Karen Sayre of Eikon Photography, and the work is a happy mix of…read moreprofessional and fun. She captured my personality with ease and the result is a natural headshot that also happens to make me look pretty darn good.

Abby is phenomenal!! She did our engagement photos and will be shooting our wedding in August. She…read moreis so personable and helpful and has a great eye for amazing photography. I get excited just knowing she will be doing our wedding!

Horrible service! Avoid! The quality of the pictures are more amateur than professional. And the…read morephotographer is plain rude!

Susannah was fabulous. She made our engagement photo shoot fun, easy, and I wouldn't even mind…read moredoing it all over again, which is saying a lot because I hate having to pose for pictures. My fiance and I had only two requirements for our engagement photos, that our dog Misha be included and that we wanted to use the gorgeous backdrop of Old Town Alexandria in our photos. Susannah went above and beyond our expectations, and made us more photogenic than we realized. The pictures we chose are now my current favorite photos of the three of us. Susannah is so flexible, easy going and so organized that the whole process was truly enjoyable. She had a consultation with us before the shoot to discuss the numerous details I didn't even realize went into a photo shoot, including offering her opinion on our outfit choices. As part of the photo session hair and makeup was included, which was fantastic having a professional tame my curls. I was truly impressed with all the details that Susannah included to make the entire process less stressful and it was like I was going on a photo shoot with my best friend instead of a stranger that I had just met. Susannah even got Misha to smile. :) What really put Alumbra into the 5 star range was not just the excellent service and overall quality of the photos but the fact that Susannah sent us three gift prints with a handwritten thank you a couple weeks after we ordered our photos. Thanks Susannah!

Susannah is like a great friend who is also fantastic at taking photos. When you are photographing…read morewith her she puts you completely at ease, washes away any insecurities, and has a ton of tricks up her sleeves for making you look your best. Whether it's small things like ensuring your hands look good (dead hands are the worst!) or big things like creating a well lit space, Susannah is on top of it. And during the session you feel like she's having fun, which can turn something that may feel like a chore (seriously, lining up your family can be a lot of work) into a fun, memorable experience. I absolutely loved working with her! Also, I liked getting to chose my photos and the photo books and canvases are so, so high quality I really feel like you get your money's worth. It's clear that this is Susannah's passion and she brings such love and energy to her shoots that it is a joy working with her. I absolutely recommend her for both family portraiture and glamour photos. I will be using her for my annual christmas cards!

I have to admit: I did not want a photographer at the wedding. I thought it was an unnecessary…read moreexpense. But my mom kept pushing me to get one, and boy are we glad we did! Alexandra Friendly (Alex) was a professional photographer who is also a perfectionist. Her photos, which she took on several different types of cameras, are coming out beautifully. We didn't want schmoopy, posing pictures, and Alex respected our wishes, and took many candid photos that captured the event and the happiness that surrounded it. While it is always hard to say that your mother is right, in this case, it is a pleasure to do so. Alex Friendly is a professional, energetic photographer who made our event special. :)

We LOVED working with Alex! Not only were her pictures beautiful and amazing, but her demeanor and…read morepersonality the day of put us at ease and made the entire portrait process fun and enjoyable. We loved that she used multiple cameras which gave us lots of different types of shots in the end. Despite the rain and cold on our wedding day, Alex was a pleasure to work with and willing to brave the elements with us to get the right shot. She was really respectful of the types of shots we wanted - no cheesy, ultra posed pictures - and let us do our own thing while capturing everything. She was especially great at capturing our guests during the reception, which are some of our favorite pictures of the day. Thanks for helping make our wedding day so special - and for giving us such great pictures as memories!

Anila did a family shoot for us in January and she met us at the location that we selected. She…read morehad taken many candid shots and also posed one of us too. She had asked us before the shoot if we needed help in posing and we, of course, said yes. She gave us great pointers on how to pose and she took her time working with us. Our kids were running around and she was extremely patient taking their photos. She was so kind and sweet to them! Anila is extremely easy to get along and to work with. She is helpful in suggesting locations for the shoot, flexible on scheduling, and quick to respond to emails and texts. She provided the gallery of photos way before they were due and we were very happy with the photos. I recall there was so much sunshine that day and still the photos turned out beautiful! The entire family enjoyed having her as our photographer and hopefully next time we are in need of photos I am surely booking with Anila. Anila did an amazing job on our photos and we loved her work. I highly recommend Anila for your family photos!

Ms. Sheikh is a wonderful photographer! She graciously photographed prom photos for me and my…read moregroup. The photos came out beautifully, and the process was easy and fun. I'm so glad I have photos to remember my prom with!! I cannot recommend Ms. Sheikh enough.

My husband and I are thrilled that Linda Wang was available to be our photographer on our wedding…read moreday. From the start, she was always professional and responded promptly to our correspondences and once we met her, we both knew that her infectious energy would really bring out the best in us. As people who aren't used to being in front of the camera all the time, we knew it would be essential to find someone we were comfortable with. Instead of going with just posed shots, Linda really encouraged and reassured us to be ourselves and to enjoy the moment. She has a great eye and you can tell that she loves just catching the right moment so that the images are fresh and true. We were excited by her portfolio before our wedding and she didn't disappoint; we were really wowed afterwards when we saw our photos! She really captured the spirit and joy of our day. Not only did she take fantastic shots of the two of us, but she also captured the personalities of our friends and family members in images that we'll always treasure. Linda really went above and beyond, and her skill and passion for photography were clear in the finished product!

We had an awesome experience with Linda Wang for our outdoor family portrait session. It was very…read morewindy that afternoon and with an active toddler, I would have been happy with just one successful shot of all of us smiling without hair in our face. Linda was such a professional and it was amazing how she was able to engage my toddler's attention to get so many amazing solo shots of her. She was also able to use the wind to our advantage and got so many amazing shots of us looking so natural and beautiful. I was extremely pleased with the result and she got the proofs to us quickly to review. Now, I can't wait to use these pictures for our family Christmas cards. I highly recommend Linda Wang for family portrait sessions!