We had such a great experience & loved the pictures we took for our elopement. Thank you for coming on such short notice and capturing our special day. I definitely recommend him for any couples looking for engagement or wedding photography
Dream Photography & Videography
Eri T.
We sought out Ashley's service for our engagement/wedding portrait photos. Ashley was fantastic for a myriad of reasons. She was extremely responsive to inquiries, attentive to what we wanted and did not want as a couple, very friendly, fun and easy to work with, took many shots in a short period of time, and shared many edited photos. We would recommend her to our friends and anyone looking for a great photographer who gets the job done with a smile. Her high work quality for an amazing price is simply stellar. Thank you Ashley!
Ashley Aguillard Photography
Jackie x.
I'm so happy that my husband and I hired Dream Photography for our wedding.
1.) I sent the wrong Hotel location to Zahead which caused a delay. I was so upset at myself that I informed Zahead to just go straight to the wedding since the bridal party was running late. Zahead and his wife were kinds of enough to still drive to my hotel to capture some last-minute pictures.
2.) we received our pictures within a couple of weeks after the wedding and they turned out great!!
Thank you for being our photographer.
Dream Photography & Videography
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We hired DeNoise to cover a two-day 400 person event conference. This is a typical job for us though our first time working with DeNoise.
At the last minute, were very surprised to find out that Albert wasn't shooting the event himself as that was the impression we’d been given. He assured us that the replacement was an excellent event photographer.
The photographer was a huge source of frustration to a number of staff on site. While demanding a locked room for her computer (as opposed to the production space that was guarded at all times) she still chose to carry her large backpack with her so that she was bumping into people and chairs while moving through a quiet room during plenaries. She had no sense of how to not be in the center of everything. She would stand so tall right in front of the podium that she was blocking the tight shot of the broadcast cameras behind her more than a half dozen times. She was a major distraction throughout the event.
We were very frustrated with the selects we received on day one. I explained that the images were not exposed correctly and the white balance was all over the place. I asked for the photographer to shoot a little more wide open and to try to address the camera shake that we got a lot of. The photographer said: “Albert will fix them in post, I didn’t really have time to do anything with them.” As a photographer myself, those words bothered me a great deal.
She continued to shoot the second day and I assumed (incorrectly) that she’d taken note of the poor quality from the day before and would pay closer attention to her images. What I didn’t realize was that the reason for the exposure problems and lack of sharpness was that she thought her camera was set to Program but it was really set to Manual.
Almost a week after the event, I got the first 468 images. The overwhelming majority (94%) either didn’t meet basic standards for sharpness, composition, and shot choice or they had exposure and white balance problems that made them unusable. These issues needed to be done in camera, not in post.
When I tried to figure out what was wrong with the images I found that all of the EXIF data had been stripped from the files. I raised the question about why the files had none of this data. I got no answer (though the second half of the files I received were not stripped).
When I did get files with EXIF information, the problems began to reveal themselves more systematically. Virtually everything was shot at 1/60th and 1/100th, which would be totally fine if she weren’t at 70mm and 200mm so often. This explains why there are so many shots showing camera shake. The data shows that at minimum more than 200 images were shot at a focal length requiring more than 1/100th sec shutter speed (everything shot at >100mm), which she never used.
The files show that the event was shot almost exclusively at ISO1600 (again, manual aperture changes but virtually no changes in shutter speed). This meant that almost everything in the ballroom was underexposed and almost everything in more well lit areas was overexposed.
As for what I would expect in post, nothing had been done. Albert admitted that he hadn’t actually done the work and later sent an edited batch. The “edited” versions had no exposure fixes, and in many cases were worse than the original.
The white balance was often a severe problem. Auto white balance meant that every single image had to be edited manually. Sample taken from the exact same podium sign under the exact same lighting had radically different temperatures and hues, even in sequential images.
This is not the level of photography I expect for $2400. It’s unprofessional, and shows little skill. Any one of these problems could probably have still left us with plenty of usable images but all of these problems converging left us with a couple dozen that could be used in a pinch but nothing for us to be proud of. That’s out of the ~1000 he gave us, who knows how many he held back!
Albert indicated that he had personal matters that prevented him from doing his side of the work but claimed that complaints about the quality of the work was irrational. He indicated that this is illustrative of the work he does and that he stands behind it.
I have worked with countless photographers and have become friends with many of them following events. I hold their work in the highest regard and have never, ever worked with a photographer as incompetent, nor a photography studio owner as unwilling to put in the minimum effort for a job.
DeNoise Studios (please read profile)
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