DONT USE THEM!! $$$$ THEY,RE FOUR TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN EVERYONE IN TOWN!!!! Don't use this services, they are as professional as other professional photographers. No fee but minimum purchase AT FRONT of $350, that WON'T cover almost nothing example of prices are $40 4x6 when 2 other photographers from the same area are ($10 4x6), (16x20 $325) when others are ($95 16x20), and if you think the $350 will at least get you the digital images the price for 15 digital images is $749 and the additional images are $40 each!!!!! Others photographers prices for a CD are only $I75.. I really think people need to learn from reviews, this two sweet looking seniors, don't care about you!! only you wallet and by the time they upload the pictures takes 4 to 5 days and of curse you're provably back home and to far to legally persecute them or even complain because they don't answer back if you question them or their prices. So you'll end up stock with bunch of pictures you love but you can't access because the watermarks on them, or pay over a thousand dollars for the same services you'll get fro the same $350 or less with other professional photographer!!! We love everything else in Dustin FL, The resort, the Dinner Boat, The fishing adventure, SNUBA diving we got a full 20min video under the water with a professional underwater photographer and the video was only $85. In Dustin other services are honest and decent with their prices I guess they understand when you get back home after a vacation everyone would like to enjoy their pictures without having to pay the remaining $399 in order to get their pictures... WOW we were in shock!!!... check on their price list before you call them!!!! ---As an Update--- The Business contacted me back, we meet in the middle to a more reasonable deal, I appreciate the more fair price, specially because I really was sad to explain my family we couldn't effort the rest of our memories. Thank you Beach Portraits by Design to reconsider. Perhaps making your prices in general more competitive could be good for Dustin vacationist and for you too. read more

We contacted Leslie before our Labor day trip to the beach, and she could not have been nicer. The portraits are stunning and they took a lot of time with my family and two year old grandson. Thank you so much for these lifetime keepsakes, we love our portraits and Christmas cards. I would definitely recommend Beach Portraits By Design for any occasion, professional and fairly priced. read more

Great local business with amazing results! We got great pictures taken and the final result was well worth the money! We have never looked better as a family! The Hawthorne's were so kind and considerate! Most definitely will be returning for more portraits!!! read more

Beach Portraits by Design, Ray and Leslie, photographed our family group (13 people) this past summer at the beach. They were set up at the beach when we arrived and were very professional. The photo shoot went smoothly and was enjoyable. We have loved our pictures and feel they did a great job with a large group. Each family within our group also had their pictures made as well as individuals. Ray was fast and Leslie kept us all organized and laughing. We are so happy we chose them for our family reunion portraits. They have been so helpful and friendly when we have had questions or made special requests about our picture orders. They were great during the shoot and wonderful to deal with afterward. read more

We have had pictures completed in the past in Destin that turned out beautiful. Unfortunately, that gentleman retired. So I researched multiple companies online and read the reviews. After speaking with Leslie, we went ahead and booked the appointment for our family of four to have sunset pictures taken. This occurred in August of 2014. The actual photo shoot went well, Leslie and Ray were very pleasant during that time frame. The pictures were downloaded pretty quickly and looked good on the computer. After spending hours going through the prints to figure out what we wanted, I sent the email and details to Leslie. She replied that she would email me a proof of the collages I wanted prior to sending me the prints. I even followed up when things seemed to be taking to long. She again stated we were fourth in line to be completed and she understood I wanted to see the proofs first. I was trying to match them to previous pictures. Ding, dong...the doorbell rings and all of my pictures arrived, without me checking the proofs. We were very unhappy with the color quality of the prints. They also did not match the other pictures I was trying to work with. Had Leslie, emailed me the proofs prior to sending them some of the issues could have been addressed. Instead, when I contacted her on the phone, she immediately became extremely defensive and began yelling and screaming at me. I ended up turning the speaker phone on so my spouse could hear what was going on. I am not a professional photographer, but it was extremely obvious to this novice that the pictures had extremely yellow and red tones. The colors looked nothing like what we saw online. When she reprinted one or two of them and sent them too us to check the color, we now were completely washed out. We questioned the photo lab she was using but again, all we got in return were defensive comments. Now I have already paid her in full for everything and we were extremely unhappy with the quality of the prints and her costumer service. We ended up only dealing with her by email. She ended up putting the 15 prints on a flash drive for the cost listed on her site. She refunded us some (after another phone call to remind her she had not sent the check yet) to have a photographer locally print them for us. It is now February and the pictures I had hoped to have for Christmas are finally going to be printed. read more