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About Our Hawaii Wedding Photography
Whether it's a simple Hawaii wedding ceremony or vow renewal with just two or a ceremony with family and friends, your Hawaii wedding will best be remembered through great photos... and video too :) If you want the best Hawaii wedding photography available at the most reasonable cost, we have it!
We provide the best Hawaii wedding photography available, the kind that "locals" expect for their own wedding and we don't use cheap "tourist" wedding photographers. We use experienced professionals with our top photographer being a top Hawaii wedding photographers for over 20 years.
There's nothing more disappointing than getting poor wedding photos. You can pay more for your photos and you can go cheaper but, you will not find better Hawaii wedding photography than what we have right here for the price. Just look at our images and look at our competition.
How It Works
We start of coverage with photos of your ceremony followed by coverage of any events like a cake-cutting or toast, photos of family, bridal party, and finally portraits of bride and groom, and scenics. Simple, fast, fun, and always beautiful!
Within the next few days after your wedding, we computer process each individual photo for the best quality for color, contrast, and exposure. This is versus handing over the uncorrected photos shot right after the wedding like many photographers do.
Once we're done with processing (1-2 hours of work), we'll make a website of your images (usually within 1 to 3 days) and post them for up to 30 days. We'll email you a link to your website with instructions on how to use the website and how to select your images. You'll use this personal website to make your selections and you can also use the website to show your family and friends the photos from your Hawaii wedding.
You'll email us your selections. We'll send you a mailing invoice by email which will includes the cost of postage and extras you may have purchases. Make payment and we'll mail you a CD or DVD disk of your image files by United States Postal Service, Priority Mail at the soonest opportunity.
Note: For 99% of our weddings, the coverage provided for is our Ready-Made packages will provide more than enough coverage. We also have a Photo-Tour using our most scenic locations.
Basic Photography Information
How we shoot Digital: Most wedding companies shoot their photos directly to JPEG (just like consumer cameras) and some even give it to you right there on the spot.... not good! You might as well buy a camera and have one of your friends of family shoot photos.
We shoot RAW files. This requires us to "process" each individual image for exposure, tone, color, saturation, and other parameters before being converted to JPEG. This takes 2 hours of additional work but, it's well worth it! And contrary to what people believe, Photoshop cannot fix and already poorly exposed image. It's the best and only way to shoot professionally. Don't believe us? Learn more here.
Can we make reprints? The disk we provide with all of our packages and basic photography package will allow you to make 4x6 prints anytime at a lab of your choice, as well as from your own computer printer. Why get a handful of 4x6 prints when you can make your own in any amount?
What about enlargements?: We can make print enlargements for you in the traditional manner of a photo studio or you can make your own high quality enlargements up to 4x6 and to 8x10 all the way to 24x36 or larger by purchasing a Full Size Image Disk either before or after the wedding.
Here's what some of our clients have said.
The photos are beautiful! Charlie the photographer was terrific and he did a great job making everyone comfortable. Your service, website, patience and help was greatly appreciated. We will definitely recommend you. Thank you. Rika.
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Jay and I will be sending you a more detailed hand-written thank you note, but we wanted to send you a quick email thanking you and you staff for the beautiful photos and video! We are SO SO PLEASED. Mahalo!!! Tracy
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My wife did all the planning so I asked about the photos. She said we booked you because anyone can take photos in perfect sunny conditions (well not really in our opinion) but, look at the photos they have, it's cloudy and you can't even tell and they still look great and better than all the other Hawaii wedding websites. - As told to us by one of our clients from Germany who had been traveling around the world (by car) and decided to get married in Hawaii before driving the US and South America and home to Germany.
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The morning of the wedding saw my wife and daughter fretting over the dress and the hair appointment to ensure they had "beach do's" ready to handle the occasional sea breezes. Meanwhile, the Groom and I hiked Diamond Head crater and spent some great bonding time together. When we returned, the ladies were still getting their hair done so we gentlemen hit the pool for awhile.
A couple hours before limo time, we enjoyed taking a few family pictures together around our hotel. Right at 3:00 P.M. the limo arrived and we were off on a short ride to Makapu'u' beach where the setting was extraordinary. My friends and coworkers cannot believe the photos you shot are real. "These have to be Photoshop-ed, it is so beautiful!" one said. After a short but very sentimental and memorable ceremony, we were off to another beach for sunset shots which turned out awesome. Then it was back to the hotel for the big dinner. All told, we were gone for maybe two and a half hours but what memories we now have. Grandpa, the former Navy photographer, would approve of your photo work if he was here to see it. It was spectacular and the digital nature of the prints afforded so much more flexibility for sharing this occasion with others.
Weddings are really about memories. And, thanks to your incomparable photography, we have lasting memories we will cherish forever. The one thing I don't have is memories of stress or the inevitable hassles associated with the usual wedding problems. The whole event went like clockwork and the smile on the face of the bride shows. That alone was worth the price of admission. And to think we actually thought about having this wedding at home.
With only one child we hoped our first wedding would go well. We could not have dreamed that it would have gone as well as it did. Thank you, thank you and thank you again. Aloha, Ray Stark.
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