I was looking for a newborn photographer that did a more minimalist/modern look. She uses natural…read morelighting for her shoots and provides swaddles and a onesie for baby to wear. Danielle is incredible and I cannot recommend her enough. She has such an ease when it comes to handling and posing the new borns. We ended up doing the shoot in her studio but there are options to do it in your own home. I was a little hesitant to have photos done given covid but once we got to her studio we felt very safe. I did my own hair and makeup but if it weren't for covid I would have probably used the vendors she works with/recommends. I bought my own dress to wear in the shoot but I ended up using one of hers. She has a collection of dresses in a range of colors and sizes. I am so grateful for these photos that we will cherish for the rest of our lives. I am looking forward to hiring her again once our baby is older.

Ayse is one of the best people and most calming photographers I have ever met. I have our 10th…read moreanniversary coming up and she was more than happy to come to us in Omaha to take our photos. I felt the need to get photos as we did not get engagement photos a decade ago. We got some great local shots that she coached us through and nearly halfway through I started to feel comfortable. Understand I really don't like photos of me, but love to see my wife. Talk about stunning. There is a great use of colors and soft edges that she likes to use. If I had a concern with a particular multi-shot, she had no problem letting me give the nix on a particular shot. If I was a business, established or an upstart I would be more than happy to have her take the publicity shots. I can say she made me comfortable and was not demanding in poses, but was able to coerce great shots. I can't wait to call her again for my 20th year pictures

I was referred to Girard Images through a friend at work when I needed to have some pictures taken…read morefor a Save the Date magnet. Jennifer, one of the owners, was fantastic to work with. She took more than enough pictures and while I had a definite idea of what I wanted to do, she was able to come up with some great twists and other ideas that really made the final product that much better. After the shoot, I got access to my photos online which gave me great flexibility in how I would use my pictures. Overall, great experience and I'd highly recommend.

I was so pleased with the portrait photos I had done by Girard images! Jennifer was extremely…read moreprofessional and made me feel right at ease. Before the shoot, we talked in detail about what kind of shots I wanted and where I would like to take them. She gave me lots of options. We did the shoot in a park near the Potomac. Jennifer took her time and never seemed in a rush - she really wanted to make sure I was happy with the pictures. She had the photos edited and online for me to view/download super quickly! And they came out lovely. I have used them for professional avenues and on Facebook, etc. I've never had so many "likes"! They are beautiful photos, and I will definitely use Girard Images in the future!

Hands down a great service…read more Called the number and answered the phone was the owner/operator. He ensured me that he was able to capture things that I was looking for out of our session. We locked in a time and place. He was on time and very nice. Very professional. Pricing was perfect. Would recommend to anyone looking to get photos done for any occasion.

Do not recommend! While my photo session was ok, my photos were not. Unfortunately, as instructed,…read moreI paid FULL PRICE for my service and photos PRIOR to receiving my photos. This was a red flag that I did not pick up on. I reached out to Royal Images to express my concerns. All I wanted was for some of the pictures to be corrected or a retake of a few. I was told that I would hear back in a few days. It has been weeks and I've only heard back once via text. All of my calls have been ignored. Yet, my calls were answered RIGHT AWAY PRIOR to my session. Good thing I took more pictures with another photographer that I recommend instead. Do not be fooled by the pictures on Royal's website (how does a professional photographer cut off your feet from a full body photo???) I feel as though I got ripped off. I gave Royal plenty of time to get back to me before writing this review. However, I do not want this to happen to anyone else.

Miranda captured my proposal and took some great shots afterwards. She was really amazing to work…read morewith and super flexible - she waited an extra 30+ minutes at the proposal site because my plans got delayed. She made us feel really comfortable and sent the pics to us same day. Plus, she offered a really competitive price. I'd highly recommend! Thanks Miranda!

I had a session with Miranda for professional headshots at her studio. She made it an easy and…read moreenjoyable experience! She was very accommodating and easy to communicate with. She had a quick turn around time, sent the proofs within two days.

Lisa did an amazing job on my headshots! She is very attention detailed and organized, which made…read moreit easy to work with her and scheduled my session. Lisa was also able to help me guide me to great outfits that photographed beautifully. I will definitely use her again and recommend her to my friends.

If you're a photographer or hair stylist or even makeup artist in the area looking to rent a…read morestudio, this is a great option! The amount of natural light and the option to use the owners lights are both amazing to have. The studio also has a ton of clothing options for clients to borrow as well as chairs and backgrounds. The wood floors that can be either dark or white gives plenty of versatility for your clients. The process of booking was also SUPER easy and the rates right now are very reasonable for what you get! I'd highly recommend this studio for a variety of uses! :)

This is a review for our experience with hiring Life Gallery Studio for our wedding which took…read moreplace on May 31st, 2013. We chose Life Gallery based on their excellent reviews on weddings specialist sites such as Wedding Wire, which we have since learned are policed by the vendors themselves, so only extremely positive reviews are posted and the negative reviews are "disputed" which means they are suspended from the site, often indefinitely. We had a nice initial consolation with the owner Scott, who emphasized their speciality in taking candid shots during weddings, which was something we were really interested in. They offer nice albums and a decent range of packages ranging from 4 hours on up. "Seems reasonable," we said. Contract signed. Day of the wedding, our photographer, Ronda, showed up on time. She was a bit idiosyncratic and rough around the edges, but we figured, "hey, she's an artist, let her do her thing." It was extremely hot that day and she marched us around the vineyard where our wedding took place, often shouting at us, "Don't move! I'll tell you when to move!" when she found the lighting to be favorable. She struggled mightily to remember my wife's name throughout the ceremony despite repeated reminders. Seemed like a fairly basic ask for such an important day, but we were more concerned about the photographic results. At the reception, Ronda seemed bored and listless. We added a few hours to her workload at $150/hour, included dinner and let her know to feel free to help herself to a drink. Which she did. She then seemed to forget she was working and spent the back end of the reception, mostly seated and not taking photos. Guests asked her, "Ronda, why aren't you taking photos?" "It would be awkward while you're eating," she said in reply. Um, maybe awkward for Ronda, but the guests would have welcomed it...that's. why. we. hired. a. photographer. Life Gallery knew beforehand that the entire reception was a dinner and that was the task, so Ronda should not have been disappointed by the lack of a Bollywood style reception with tigers jumping through rings of fire. They never voiced any concerns before the event took place. "Let's see what photos she got," I said, "before we complain, maybe we'll be surprised." Well, the results were less than spectacular. The role of photos ranged from a few very nice shots, to many mediocre, and even more amateurish. Each table had flowers on it, which she captured wonderfully, but often at the expense of our guests' faces. Another highlight includes the back of the groom's head as he hugs his father, whose face is obscured by the back of the groom's head. That's the type of "candids" she got. We expressed our disappointment to Scott afterwards, who made no attempt at apologies or even understanding, and didn't even acknowledge the root of our dissatisfaction. "Most people only care about 20 shots to make an album," he said. Somehow we feel shortchanged by that after paying over a grand. It's entirely possible our experience was an outlier. As Scott said, they are very well reviewed online. Perhaps, that's because they spend so much time disputing any less than stellar ones on review sites. Here's hoping my review survives on Yelp, so other couples might be spared a less than positive experience on their wedding day, and cloudy, obscured, memories afterwards, marked by frustration. Luckily, we have the photos our friends and relatives took, which on the whole, represent a superior collection of work than what we got from Life Gallery Studio. Send me a message for samples of their work.

They say there is always something that goes wrong on your wedding day, and choosing Life Gallery…read morewas ours. I am writing this review as we just celebrated our 1 year anniversary. Throughout this year, I kept telling myself that I needed to write this. It's tough to sit down and bring up negative feelings towards your wedding day, and then to channel those into words. But I also couldn't let it go. Throughout this past year, we never printed a single photo. We never publicly shared our wedding photos. Only a few people saw our photos, and even they were disappointed. Our photographer Mike and owner Scott completely failed us. We got married on Halloween 2020. Prior to the wedding, we are asked to create a list of the things that were our must-have photos (which we also reviewed with Mike day of). One of our biggest photo "wants" was lots of pictures of our senior golden retriever Bubba. We didn't know how much time we have left with him so we wanted pictures of him with everyone. We spent a lot of time and money decorating our wedding venue, so naturally our decorations were on there. I even asked Mike how his camera was at night time (since our reception was after dark) and he assured me it was great. I also spent a lot of time carving approximately 30 foams pumpkins for a haunted house I put together, which was also on my list. My husband even built me a large custom cooler shaped like a coffin! We bought glow sticks to light it up at night. We were disappointed in the lack of Bubba pictures. He was only photographed in a few different settings despite being there all night. There is not a SINGLE photo of our decorations at night, nor are there any of the pumpkins lit up, or any of the coffin cooler once it was put together for the reception. Looking at the photos, Mike went around the venue before the ceremony and took pictures of our decorations prior to being setup/lit up. Guess he figured he could check them off the list then? I have one photo of my custom coffin cooler, and it's still closed with a box of glow sticks sitting next to it. We had discussed Mike staying an hour past his time at the start of the day. He said we could see how everything was going. He came to find me promptly at the original leaving time to say he got everything and goodbye. Had I known how much he missed, I would've had him stay that extra hour. Mike never utilized any of the decorations in the photos. He had us taking some of our family photos in front of the bridal suite instead of using the graveyard right next to us. I had to tell him to move because it wasn't a good spot. Scott's excuse was that Mike did it for the lighting. It's a Halloween wedding! Who cares about how lit up the bridal suite is, I wanted dark and spooky. When I brought up these issues with Scott, he said he wasn't going to BS us, but that's all he did. He tried to tell me that you can't photograph jack-o-lanterns! I've been carving pumpkins for 20+ years and always take photos of them. He never did anything to try and make it better for us, so be warned if you have an issue with them. He said he "found" more photos, but they were actually the photos they considered rejects and discarded. Now we have to take the time to dress up, decorate, and shoot our pictures all over again with a different company. We would never recommend Life Gallery!!!

I cannot recommend Elle enough! She is truly the sweetest photographer I've ever worked with, and…read morethe entire experience--from start to finish--was nothing short of amazing. I first discovered Elle through an ad for her 40 Over 40 campaign and the moment I saw her work on social media, I knew I wanted to book. This shoot ended up being especially meaningful to me, as I used the photos to celebrate my second anniversary of being cancer-free. From the very first consultation call, Elle was incredibly thoughtful and intentional. She took the time to really understand my vision and made sure she could execute it perfectly. On the day of the shoot, everything exceeded my expectations. The hair and makeup artist she works with was phenomenal, and Elle herself was so patient, gentle, and accommodating throughout the entire day. She made sure I was comfortable at all times, checked in with me constantly, and ensured I got every pose, angle, and shot I wanted. I never felt rushed--we had the whole day, she took so many photos, and it was genuinely so much fun. Her calm, kind energy made the experience feel safe, joyful, and empowering. Elle is also incredibly organized and meticulous, which I deeply appreciate. And the turnaround time? Unreal. I had only asked if it might be possible to get one edited photo before my cancerversary date and told her I didn't mind waiting for the rest--but she delivered the entire album in about 24 hours! I was blown away. When I say I'm obsessed with the photos... I mean it. They are absolute perfection--my favorite photos of myself to date. And on top of that, she generously included several extra images, which was such a thoughtful surprise. Elle delivers not just stunning, high-quality photos, but genuine care and an unforgettable experience. She is worth EVERY penny, and I would book her again in a heartbeat.

(Short-and-sweet) Elle didn't just take my branding photos;…read moreshe created the most beautifully curated experience that brought my brand as a Realtor to life. With her gift for seeing what I couldn't yet see myself, she captured my brand flawlessly while making me feel completely supported and empowered every step of the way. (Longer version) From the start, I knew Elle's (EYP's) experience would extend far beyond just "taking pictures". She guided me with posing inspiration, prop ideas, outfit vision boards, and even ideas on how to use the photos and reels once we met for her reveal. She also arranged an on-site makeup artist and hairstylist, which meant one less thing to stress about that day and one more reason I felt so comfortable and cared for throughout the process. Her gorgeous studio (truly stunning and so intentionally designed!) is an experience in itself, with multiple setups, backgrounds, and lighting that added so much variety (and fun!) to the session. Most importantly, Elle challenged me to uncover how I wanted my brand to truly show up, and then captured it more beautifully and effectively than I ever imagined. Elle is the crème de la crème. If you are searching to elevate your brand and your business through photos that tell your brand's story, I honestly cannot recommend EYP's full branding experience enough! It was the single best decision I made for my business this year.