Ambient Photography

We have used Ambient for professional shots for our business as well as family photos and they are wonderful! I'm camera-phobic and just can't get comfortable having my photo taken. Alex and Kathy make it easy and relaxed and they always capture images that feel totally authentic. Standard posed shots are always great quality, but it's much harder to capture someone's essence, and they do it (seemingly) effortlessly.
5 7 years ago (31-05-2018)

We are very pleased with our experience with Ambient Photography. Kathy and Alex are kind, courteous, professional and very talented. We had family portraits and individual pictures of our four children with many great photos to choose from and lots of options, including high quality canvas framed prints, an assortment of sizes of both color and black and white prints, and awesome holidays cards. We highly recommend Ambient Photography and will definitely be using them again in the future!
5 7 years ago (03-06-2018)

Our first experience with Ambient Photography was in 2006 and have gone back every year since for family photos, holiday cards, Senior portraits and announcements! We highly recommend them for their creativity, thoughtfulness, professionalism and craftsmanship. We thoroughly enjoy working with Alex and Kathy.
5 7 years ago (30-05-2018)

I gotta say, we are booking our third family photo shoot with Ambient in the last six years. Excellent work, puts the family at ease; suggestions on clothes / colors to wear, where to shoot either studio, on their or your land - they were able to draw out the best of us! My father who was a Vietnam combat Army photographer commented highly on his work. When Alex was bringing over proofs for our second photo shoot, our new pup (who had just gotten the "cone of shame" resulting from surgery) ran off - two hours of searching in briars, mud and mosquitos - Alex found him, THANKS ALEX!! Great work, highly recommended for your photo shoot!.
5 7 years ago (01-06-2018)

AWFUL EXPERIENCE, RUINED MY HOPES OF BEAUTIFUL, PROFESSIONAL FAMILY/NEWBORN PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!! Extremely disappointed with the service and the photos we received from Alex at Ambient. When I decided I wanted to get our photos done professionally I searched all around our area to find the best service and the best price. It took lots of energy to convince my boyfriend to participate and split the cost because to him "anyone can take a photo." I ended up convincing him to go with Ambient because the reviews were so good and Alex had a "mother's day sale" where we would be able to have an hour photo shoot including a package of photos and a copy of purchased photos on a disc for $530 (tax included). For us that is a lot of money and we expected we would get wonderful family photos as well as newborn photos of our baby girl. The photo shoot itself seemed to go well. Alex was friendly and the space was nice. He has a beautiful studio and awesome outdoor venue. However beyond that it was a nightmare. Our photos arrived weeks late and the prints were incorrect. The photos were printed in the wrong sizes, damaged in the mail AND our disc of the purchased photos was missing. I reached out to Alex who responded quickly but without a resolution. Days passed and I reached out again. When I still had yet to receive a response my fiance reached out to Alex and finally we got a response. Alex then provided us with copies of the damaged photos in the correct print, a disc of all the photos from the photo shoot and he upgraded our canvas picture. All of that sounded great EXCEPT when we received the disc of photos NONE of them were photo shopped so my daughters baby acne was in full swing and I have had to search for someone to edit them for me. Alex never photo shopped my hair tie off my wrist (I didn't even realize it was on my wrist until Alex told me halfway through the photo shoot). In all of the photos of my daughter on her own her eye crossed and the angles are strange. I was behind my daughter during the time Alex took those photos so I had no idea that her eye had crossed nor that she was at weird angles. We only got a couple prints in color, the rest were all black and white. My hair tie is in almost every photo. There are only a couple pictures I remotely like at all and none I am in love with. The canvas picture took almost 3 months to arrive and Alex does not develop his own photos. My daughter is absolutely beautiful and Alex didn't capture her beauty for us. He didn't capture anything and he didn't even bother putting his logo on our pictures because I am certain he knows he did shoddy work. It was a good experience gone horribly wrong and I will NEVER pay for pictures professionally again. Waste of $530. It is 6 months later and I am still upset about it. Our pictures were done 5/30/17 and just writing this brings back all my anger and frustration. I wish we had demanded a refund. I have now found someone willing to photo shop the photos and correct my daughters baby acne and remove my hair tie but there is no way to fix her cross eye or the crappy photos he took that day and I am not sure I will ever be able to look at any of the photos without getting upset.
1 8 years ago (01-11-2017)