Sweet Delight Photography

Jessica at sweet delight photography is not only amazing but very honest and out to make you extremely happy! She took amazing photos of my family and I before we left Hawaii. She was so nice. I’ve never been so comfortable being behind the camera until the images that Jessica took of my family and I turned out to be so amazing. They are gorgeous, and I have several pieces of her «art» and talent in my home. I printed several poses from the session and I am more than pleased that I got the chance to work with her all the while getting beautiful photos that I will have all my life. I appreciate all the time and effort she put into creating the perfect photos. She is very true to her clients and to her job. I enjoyed every second with her and hope to one day get more photos from her so that I can update in the years to come. Thank you Jessica for making my experience so amazing and giving me photos that my entire family have and enjoy and that make my home beautiful.

Jessica from Sweet Delight is amazing. She is an absolute pleasure and joy to work with. I have worked with Jessica on multiple occasions where she took beautiful photos of my family, my husband, and yes even some Boudoir photos of me (which turned out 100x better then I expected. They are absolutely GORGEOUS!)
She is always professional, fun to work with, always made us feel at ease, and delivers exceptional artful photography that I will love and cherish forever! Her photos of my family are ALL over our house!
Her prices are WAY below what the quality of her work is worth! I’ve told her time and time again to RAISE her prices because her work is worth far more than what she charges, but she insists on keeping it so low to make beautiful photos available to anyone! Her business is based entirely around her talent and desire to create stunning images that EVERY family can afford and deserves!
I am a professional photographer as well and I continue to refer all my Hawaii clients to Jessica because I know what an amazing job she does!

Jessica has the potential to be a good photographer but needs to work with her customer relations.
I booked Jessica close to Valentine’s Day when she was running a special on a $ 77 boudoir shoot, a 45 min session with 5 5×7 photos. I also did her celebrating baby special for $ 35.00. (She no longer does this special.) I booked her after seeing a beautiful photo shoot she did for a friend.
I went to her house on the scheduled day and she took me to a back room. First we took my son’s pictures and then we did mine. For Boudoir she has a bed with a backdrop behind it she has you pose on. She tells you how to pose, there is no mirror to see what you look like, so it is full trust in the photographer. Everything went well, I personally don’t have an issue with my body even half-​dressed and the work I’d seen her do before was fantastic.
The first red flag was when I left and she e-​mailed me telling me I had to pay her upfront. I’m use to paying after I have the finished project. Understanding she is a photographer so paying a session fee or half of it would be expected but no, it was all of it up front. She said people hadn’t paid her for her work before.(Red flag 2)
I paid and she showed me a preview of my son that was posted on her Facebook page without asking my permission. That irked me but I didn’t say anything. Then she sent me a link to my gallery where his shoot was. I loved them. No complaint there, she can take pictures of kids. (He is highly smiley and photogenic.)
Next she gave me a preview of my gallery. It was pretty and gave me hopes for much better photos. I could see my bra pad in it but hey, one mess up doesn’t mean they’re all going to be bad, right?
Wrong. They were all bad. A lot of them were close-​ups of my face without much of a boudoir element in it. There were two horrible crotch shots. The ones I did like you could see there was a backdrop behind me. I wore a corset in some and you could see my skin through where it hooked. There were no photos of the back of the corset. It was a mess.
I was highly disappointed. Thrilled with the photos of my son. I was really upset with my own shoot. I told her and she responded that I could pick seven photos instead of five to make up for my disappointment.
I don’t know how I was going to pick out 7 when I couldn’t pick out 5. Good customer service would have been to say ‘how about a mini reshoot’ and all the tears that followed would have been spared.
She said she welcomed both positive and negative feed back so as nicely as I could I explained my distaste. I did offend her a bit with what she did with photoshops to my photos but it wasn’t my intention. I do recognize that she put a lot of editing into the work but no amount of editing is going to save a bad photo. I felt they were amateur shots my husband could have taken with our camera.
She made me look pretty, not sexy. The shoot highlighted the fact I have no curves. I felt ugly when I knew she was capable of doing great work. That maybe it was just me. I’ve never felt so down about myself before.
In response to my e-​mail she told me there was no way she could refund my money. That she turned down another potential client to shoot me. That she only made a small amount of money due to putting her kids in daycare. That she felt I did look sexy in the photos and that she was sorry I did not feel the same. Basically guilting me and making me feel awful for not liking her work.
She topped it off with a second email that said she could refund me the money but would never work with me again. I –NEVER– asked for a refund. Some other deal was thrown in there, sending me the entire gallery of my son, 5 5x7s of him (already in the deal), then 2 8×10s and supposedly all this would equal up to the $ 77 I spent. She did offer a mini reshoot then but only after making me feel awful, how am I suppose to feel comfortable with her?
I wasn’t trying to take advantage of her. I sent my gallery to a photographer friend. I told her the situation, asked if I was crazy for feeling this way, and finally got the reassurance that I needed and began to feel better about myself again. She said the photos were missing the soul only a photographer could place in them and that Jessica was probably just having an off day when she took them.
I don’t want anyone to think that I was in it to cheat them and get a free photo shoot (which is how she made me feel) so I took the deal on all my son’s photos. I do like them.
I’ve never cried so much over photos. The entire situation could have been avoided if she just made me feel comfortable enough for a quick reshoot.
She does decent work but if you don’t like it she might make you feel like crap with unneeded sob stories.
Would I ever book with her again? No. Not at all. She made it pretty clear she never wants to work with me again either. I’m highly disappointed in her customer service skills.
She sees this purely as a business, not art.

Jessica is surely a pleasure to work with!
My BF and I made an appointment with her to shoot Christmas pictures at Helemano Farms. When we got there she had at least 3 set-​ups set up for us. That really relieved some of my nervousness because I wasn’t sure what we were going to do. Jessica is very easy to work with. She directed us and told us what to do and how to pose. We are totally NOT model material so that also lessened some of my anxiety and put me more at ease. I feel like the photos came out very natural looking and not too «posey» at all.
I will definitely continue to recommend Jessica to ALL of my friends and hope to work with her in the near NEAR future (save the date photos perhaps? –crosses fingers-)