We had such a great time with our honeymoon photoshoot at Secrets Vallarta Bay / Now Amber resort! We first met our photographer, Iván Cuevas, while we were lounging near the beach. He was amazing to work with! He offered to meet with us as many times as we wanted for as many photo sessions as we needed. We were totally struck by his level of enthusiasm and passion for photographing us. He was very flexible with timing the photoshoots (we ended up shooting 2 days in a row, both times around sunset in different outfits) around our excursion times, and we easily kept in touch via email. He replied very quickly to my emails so it was almost like instant message. We were able to email him that we were running late the first day and there was no trouble. He also was very natural to work with and came up with great poses but also let us be "in our element" for a lot of the photos. We were lucky to have 2 beautiful sunsets on our photoshoot days, given that we came during the rainy season -- but he would have been happy to reschedule. After all the photos were taken, Iván sat down with us for what was planned for a 30 min to 1 hr session to look at the finished photos, and this turned into a 2 hour session because he let us sit on his computer to choose our favorite photos and which ones we wanted as prints and canvas. He was super patient and edited out blemishes for us in all of our final photos. He made changes to the brightness / colors at our request without hesitation. This entire process was amazing and would not have been possible without Iván and his passion and patience.
As an additional note, the photo sessions are completely complimentary (we are guests at Secrets Vallarta Bay) for guests of Now Amber and Secrets Vallarta Bay, and they really mean it - as many photoshoots as you want without additional cost. They have some reasonable photo packages for when you are ready to purchase the photos. They ship all the stuff back to the address of your choice at no additional cost! read more