Aimage

Aimage was one of the best things about my wedding.
I interviewed 3 different photographers before I met and hired Lisa. I was so incredibly impressed with her portfolio and personality. Her pricing was also completely fair and less than a lot of the big companies I looked at.
Usually, I cannot stand pictures of myself. With Lisa, I have beautiful pictures that I love. My bridal portraits were AMAZING. Did I mention, I’ve never liked pictures of myself, EVER, until Lisa?
The wedding photos came out gorgeous, my entire family was so happy. She captured such candid pictures of family and friends and she is wonderful at getting people together quickly and in flattering positions. In the moments right after the ceremony, you have literally 30 minutes to get pictures of the wedding party. We had an enormous wedding party, and Lisa was fast and friendly getting everyone to organize and pose. It’s not easy, but she was a rockstar.
More than anything, know that you’re not getting a junior photographer at a big company. You’re getting Lisa, and she’s such a talent.
Post-​wedding, Lisa sent me all of my pictures on discs, copyright-​released. She even touched up a lot of them, which she wasn’t contracted to do. She’s just that cool. (Sidenote: I’m a designer by trade, and she did great work on touch-​ups — nothing was done incorrectly.) The discs were sent to me very quickly — they were waiting for me when I got back from the honeymoon.
My family had such a wonderful experience, we will use Lisa again for future photography needs.

Here’s where you failed us, Lisa:
* You were rude and boorish to a lot of our guests as you set up shots, despite everyone’s best efforts to follow your vague instructions.
* My husband told you his parents are divorced – that they’re very uncomfortable around each other. Why, then, try to pose them together on several occasions?
* You never took two pictures in a row without making at least five seconds of adjustments to your camera (even though the lighting hadn’t changed, and no one had moved.) This caused group shots to take over an hour, and it caused you to miss a lot of spontaneous moments.
* When you did miss that decisive moment, you tried to make up for it by having us artificially recreate it. And then we had to fake the magic of that fleeting moment for minutes at a time as we listened to, «[click] Wait. Hold on a second… [click]… Ok, wait…»
* This one is huge: we asked for untouched copies of everything. You ignored us. We asked for color photos. You ignored us. We could have overlooked the amateurish photoshop kludges you used to cover up your mistakes (out of focus, underexposed shots, poor depth of field, washed out…) if we could have gone back to the originals and fixed them ourselves. But you saved over them! You saved over the color photos we wanted with black and white. You used the sharpen tool on key shots until they were pixilated garbage. For all your diva temperament and ‘artiste’ breeziness, I’m sorry, but you’re a hack.
I’m leaving this review because the more I think about it, the more I realize I would have been heartbroken if my family of amateur photographers hadn’t picked up your slack – if all we had to look back upon were the photos you delivered. Nobody deserves that. Certainly not at the prices you charge.

We hired Lisa to photograph our wedding in 2005 and were not happy with the experience. She seemed great initially, but the day of the wedding, she was abrasive with family (to organize shots) and did not deliver the quality that I expected after meeting her and seeing her portfolio. All of the group shots in the church were off-​center too. She haggled with us over prints and negatives. All in all, I could have gotten the same or better result from a photographer who charged ½ of what she did. I wish we could do it over, but that’s the thing about weddings, you can’t!

My wife and I had an excellent experience with Aimage and even hired them to come from Austin to San Antonio to do our wedding/​reception. We were not disappointed with the the pictures and thought they turned out great. On top of it, I thought that the owner Lisa was terrific «herding» our family members to where they were supposed to be (or more appropriately out of where they weren’t supposed to be) in a very professional and entertaining manner so that we could get the pictures done and to the reception so that I could start having fun. She got it all done quickly and efficiently. Also, the quality of the images were great. We had a night time reception on the Riverwalk so I was a little concerned about what the lighting would look like but they all looked good. Regardless, I would recommend them to any of my friends or family.