I found Vika Photography when I was searching for a photographer to shoot my daughter's beach baptism. Viktoriya's (the photographer) webpage was user friendly, effective, and the pricing was especially easy to find (other websites required that you contact them first before they told you how much their services cost, which I find to be a bit sneaky, snobby, and a deterrent). Regardless of if you're a parent or not, who has the time to wait for an email to get a response-which by the way we're still waiting for-seriously. Transparency (honesty) is king-If you're work is really good. Customers will come to you quickly, regardless if you put your prices online or not. She kept it real.
Vika's online portfolio was quite impressive. I loved her attention to detail and her ability to make her subjects shine in each photo. Her style is current and fresh, not like other one-dimensional photographers my husband and I have worked with. As soon as my artist-husband saw her work, he was clear that he wanted her to be our photographer. She's deft at telling stories. If a picture speaks a thousand words, then her pictures sing a million phrases.
Upon meeting her, she was friendly, warm, and so easy to work with. It felt like we were having an old friend take pictures for us! She helped us find a great spot to take pictures and made sure we were comfortable the whole time. Trying to get a good picture of an infant and toddler is not easy, but Viktoriya was patient and creative with our kids, so we were able to get great shots. You can tell she loves what she does. You can see the gears in her artistic mind spinning as she measured the available light, decided if it would be worth using in the photos and as she picked spots that would make the composition of the shot visually engaging. Maybe that's why we keep looking at our photos because each time you look, there's something new we didn't see prior. I mean she worked like a Director of Photography on a film shoot; layers, depth, light, etc. Super talented and it showed.
Lately, I don't know if it's this "economy" that we're in, but we've been experiencing such low levels of customer service from many kinds of businesses, I felt that she was a breath of fresh air because she really listened to our requests. She somehow had the knack to interpret those requests & our concerns into a gallery of photographs that we will be proud of for generations. It was neat to see how consistent her online presence with her blog & photography website matched her personality. We got exactly what we asked for. I can't thank her enough for the beautiful job she did in capturing our family's special moment! I would definitely recommend her to everyone I know. Going with Vika Photography is definitely worth the money and time because you get so much for the price AND you're pictures will be awesome! My husband told our friends, "She's the best photographer we've ever worked with." If there was any reason for not giving the highest rating possible, it would be because she doesn't live closer to us so we could go to her more often! read more