Very accommodating. They were closed for remodeling, but a very nice lady let us in, helped us…read more download pictures from our phones, and had them printed in less than a half hour. Truly remarkable service in this day and age. We've had nothing but pleasant service on other occasions,too. A great business with wonderful employees!

I found the same camera in Maryland brand new for half the price. They were not really customer…read morefriendly.

We booked Thomas for our wedding and he was fantastic. He was punctual and professional. He did a…read moregreat job managing our requests for both posed and action shots, and he suggested a number of shots for us that turned out great. We're very happy with our 1000+ pictures from the event. Working with Roman was also a pleasure. He promptly answered all of our questions and worked with us to quickly resolve the issue when we had trouble accessing the pictures at the end. We are definitely glad we went with Roman Grinev and we would recommend them to other couples.

My husband and I got married on 7/22/18. We chose Roman Grinev Photography based on the positive…read morereviews they received on Weddingwire and other sites. However, our wedding day experience with Dawn, the photographer that we chose since Roman wasn't available, led to multiple concerns with her poor communication style, inflexibility in working with us, and mostly with her failure to deliver 2 out of the 8.5 contracted service hours. On our wedding day, we wanted pictures of our wedding party taken at the Lincoln Memorial and DC War Memorial. Initially we emailed Roman about our intent and invited him to ride with us in our limo so our trip there would be captured and also because we knew that parking in downtown DC is difficult. We'd have the limo driver drop us off at our locations and pick us up when we were done with pictures. When he reminded us that Dawn was our photographer, we extended the same invite to her during our initial phone conversation. On our wedding day, we repeated our offer, however she declined, saying she would drive separately. Once we got there Dawn told us that she couldn't find parking, didn't want to double park and get a ticket, and therefore wouldn't take pictures of us. This was incredibly frustrating since it could've been easily avoided if she had simply accepted our offer to ride in the limo. We were very disappointed but tried to patiently resolve this directly with Roman over the past 2 months. After we shared our concerns with him, he offered us a free hour session with Dawn. We respectfully declined because of the extra money we'd have to pay for another National Mall photo permit, my makeup and hair, and tuxedo rental for my husband. More importantly, we wouldn't have our entire wedding party there; one of my bridesmaid is from Belgium and my mother is traveling abroad. We then requested a refund of $652 for the missing 2 hours and the photography permit that was never used. Roman gave a counteroffer for an album which he said was valued at $600. Again, we respectfully declined because we already received multiple albums from friends as wedding gifts. At this point, Roman refused to give us a refund and furthermore rescinded his offer for the album and the photo session. He also falsely accused us of not having room in the limo (it was a 14-person limo; specifically the passenger seat was available for Dawn), that I told Dawn to take her own car (completely untrue), and that I said it "wasn't a big deal" that there were no professional pictures taken. We are extremely disappointed that we weren't able to resolve this situation with Roman directly. We are further disheartened that the conversation devolved into a she said/ she said argument with false information. We spent an entire year thoughtfully planning the details for our wedding day and wouldn't just throw it away with such a cavalier statement as it's not "a big deal." This was our wedding day so of course we wanted to capture our moment with all our cherished family and friends together with a professional photographer. Many of the professional pictures taken did turn out well, so we are saddened that not only will we not have professional pictures of our wedding party at the National Mall but that Roman refused to refund us for the lost time. The fact of the matter is that Roman Grinev Photography didn't provide their contractual services and therefore should have given us a refund per their "failure to perform clause" in the contract we signed.

This is a review for our experience with hiring Life Gallery Studio for our wedding which took…read moreplace on May 31st, 2013. We chose Life Gallery based on their excellent reviews on weddings specialist sites such as Wedding Wire, which we have since learned are policed by the vendors themselves, so only extremely positive reviews are posted and the negative reviews are "disputed" which means they are suspended from the site, often indefinitely. We had a nice initial consolation with the owner Scott, who emphasized their speciality in taking candid shots during weddings, which was something we were really interested in. They offer nice albums and a decent range of packages ranging from 4 hours on up. "Seems reasonable," we said. Contract signed. Day of the wedding, our photographer, Ronda, showed up on time. She was a bit idiosyncratic and rough around the edges, but we figured, "hey, she's an artist, let her do her thing." It was extremely hot that day and she marched us around the vineyard where our wedding took place, often shouting at us, "Don't move! I'll tell you when to move!" when she found the lighting to be favorable. She struggled mightily to remember my wife's name throughout the ceremony despite repeated reminders. Seemed like a fairly basic ask for such an important day, but we were more concerned about the photographic results. At the reception, Ronda seemed bored and listless. We added a few hours to her workload at $150/hour, included dinner and let her know to feel free to help herself to a drink. Which she did. She then seemed to forget she was working and spent the back end of the reception, mostly seated and not taking photos. Guests asked her, "Ronda, why aren't you taking photos?" "It would be awkward while you're eating," she said in reply. Um, maybe awkward for Ronda, but the guests would have welcomed it...that's. why. we. hired. a. photographer. Life Gallery knew beforehand that the entire reception was a dinner and that was the task, so Ronda should not have been disappointed by the lack of a Bollywood style reception with tigers jumping through rings of fire. They never voiced any concerns before the event took place. "Let's see what photos she got," I said, "before we complain, maybe we'll be surprised." Well, the results were less than spectacular. The role of photos ranged from a few very nice shots, to many mediocre, and even more amateurish. Each table had flowers on it, which she captured wonderfully, but often at the expense of our guests' faces. Another highlight includes the back of the groom's head as he hugs his father, whose face is obscured by the back of the groom's head. That's the type of "candids" she got. We expressed our disappointment to Scott afterwards, who made no attempt at apologies or even understanding, and didn't even acknowledge the root of our dissatisfaction. "Most people only care about 20 shots to make an album," he said. Somehow we feel shortchanged by that after paying over a grand. It's entirely possible our experience was an outlier. As Scott said, they are very well reviewed online. Perhaps, that's because they spend so much time disputing any less than stellar ones on review sites. Here's hoping my review survives on Yelp, so other couples might be spared a less than positive experience on their wedding day, and cloudy, obscured, memories afterwards, marked by frustration. Luckily, we have the photos our friends and relatives took, which on the whole, represent a superior collection of work than what we got from Life Gallery Studio. Send me a message for samples of their work.

They say there is always something that goes wrong on your wedding day, and choosing Life Gallery…read morewas ours. I am writing this review as we just celebrated our 1 year anniversary. Throughout this year, I kept telling myself that I needed to write this. It's tough to sit down and bring up negative feelings towards your wedding day, and then to channel those into words. But I also couldn't let it go. Throughout this past year, we never printed a single photo. We never publicly shared our wedding photos. Only a few people saw our photos, and even they were disappointed. Our photographer Mike and owner Scott completely failed us. We got married on Halloween 2020. Prior to the wedding, we are asked to create a list of the things that were our must-have photos (which we also reviewed with Mike day of). One of our biggest photo "wants" was lots of pictures of our senior golden retriever Bubba. We didn't know how much time we have left with him so we wanted pictures of him with everyone. We spent a lot of time and money decorating our wedding venue, so naturally our decorations were on there. I even asked Mike how his camera was at night time (since our reception was after dark) and he assured me it was great. I also spent a lot of time carving approximately 30 foams pumpkins for a haunted house I put together, which was also on my list. My husband even built me a large custom cooler shaped like a coffin! We bought glow sticks to light it up at night. We were disappointed in the lack of Bubba pictures. He was only photographed in a few different settings despite being there all night. There is not a SINGLE photo of our decorations at night, nor are there any of the pumpkins lit up, or any of the coffin cooler once it was put together for the reception. Looking at the photos, Mike went around the venue before the ceremony and took pictures of our decorations prior to being setup/lit up. Guess he figured he could check them off the list then? I have one photo of my custom coffin cooler, and it's still closed with a box of glow sticks sitting next to it. We had discussed Mike staying an hour past his time at the start of the day. He said we could see how everything was going. He came to find me promptly at the original leaving time to say he got everything and goodbye. Had I known how much he missed, I would've had him stay that extra hour. Mike never utilized any of the decorations in the photos. He had us taking some of our family photos in front of the bridal suite instead of using the graveyard right next to us. I had to tell him to move because it wasn't a good spot. Scott's excuse was that Mike did it for the lighting. It's a Halloween wedding! Who cares about how lit up the bridal suite is, I wanted dark and spooky. When I brought up these issues with Scott, he said he wasn't going to BS us, but that's all he did. He tried to tell me that you can't photograph jack-o-lanterns! I've been carving pumpkins for 20+ years and always take photos of them. He never did anything to try and make it better for us, so be warned if you have an issue with them. He said he "found" more photos, but they were actually the photos they considered rejects and discarded. Now we have to take the time to dress up, decorate, and shoot our pictures all over again with a different company. We would never recommend Life Gallery!!!

Shane is very nice guy, but his work is terrible! I hired him to take photos at my retirement…read moreparty. Look as he was just taking shots of whatever! No attention to details photos at all! I had a celebrity Chief and hardly any of the food or her staff pictures were taken. He even took pictures of guest while they were taking selfies. My guest stated that Shane sat, ate, and drank the entire evening! He charged me $300 and I gave him a $100 tip without seeing his work. Only because he was a referral. A big lesson learned for me! Stay away !!

Shane has done 3 shoots for me and I absolutely love him. He did my birthday dinner pics at an…read moreAirBnB, headshots for my business at my home, then pics a year later with my sororities sisters for our anniversary. Three different environments and each session was amazing. He captured the food, people, in the moment candid, and posed shots perfectly. It helps your photographer out a lot when you come with a "shot list" (list of ideas for how you want to take pics/poses). For my business photos I did 3 outfit changes and the vibes never became dull throughout our hours together, which is so needed for this process. During our shoot with my sorority sisters on campus, he made all 4 of us feel comfortable and that's just a gift. He's hilarious, personable, and makes you feel super comfortable behind the camera. He has consistently turned pics around in less than 2 weeks. Shane is my go to photographer and I truly appreciate all that he does and who he is to capture meaningful moments in my life. Everyone deserves to have a professional shoot pics of them at various moments in their life and you want to do that with someone who makes you feel comfortable. He's patient and doesn't mind taking his time to make sure you get what you want from the process. The process: I email him to schedule the shoot with details, location, number of people, and purpose of the shoot. He responds ASAP. Payment is sent via invoice and I love that so I can pay with my CC (for flight points). It's professional and I love that. Photos are delivered via a link afterwards for you to be able to access and you can save the pics from there.

What an amazing day and experience. I couldn't say enough positive things about the effort, care,…read moreadvice and professionalism that we were blessed to be part of today. This was my daughter's initial shoot to start her portfolio for modeling. It was not only personal, but so helpful and educational for her future endeavors with the photography world. Love is an understatement. Thank You!

My daughter is just starting out with modeling and finding Panos was a stroke of luck for us. He is…read morean amazing photographer. Her headshot is striking and he was able to capture her moods--happy, sad, silly, serious--such that she now has a broad range of images for her portfolio. He has been so patient in answering all of my questions and giving us guidance and direction. He also helped us put together her portfolio and he recommended her for her first job. His work, energy, commitment and patience far exceeded expectations.

I took a photography class with Diana the other day (on meetup.com). She walked us through…read moredifferent studio lighting. Diana is an excellent photographer and you can see samples of her work all throughout the studio. Her instructions were very good to and I learned quite a bit. The only thing that did not work for me, and which is not against Diana, was that we had a few too many folks for the meetup up session. We were constantly jostling (in a good way) for space to get the perfect shot of the model. Other than that, two thumbs up to Diana and her work!

We recently took our four week old baby boy to Studio Diana for his first portrait session and we…read morecould not be more thrilled with the photos Diana Adams took of us! She was sweet, friendly, talented and patient with us, esp. when our son needed to eat in the middle of the session. Diana also had great suggestions as to what would look good and she showed us examples of her work with other babies and families. Don't hesitate to contact Studio Diana for your family photos...we plan to go back for our son's six month and twelve month pictures!

Egan helped detach a camera lens cap from a filter on an old camera I inherited. He determined a…read morepiece was missing that was keeping the cap and the filter from attaching correctly. He cleaned the camera and charged a very reasonable rate. I found him very attentive and knowledgeable. I'm glad thee is a still a camera repair shop around and that it's Egan's.

They are supposed to be open until 5...walked in at 4...and they said they couldn't take…read moreit...because the machine was "off." I'm sorry I made the trip over.

Kevin is the best headshot photographer out there!! So good that my entire company uses him for all…read moreexecutive photos for the past 3 years. I also hired him for a hiring fair where he got 35 solid photos within a short window! And he is so kind, patient and makes you feel such at ease which is helpful when taking photos with all the lights on you can feel overwhelming! His technology is impressive and he even created his own software which makes the process even easier! Highly recommend!

I recommend Kevin without reservation, simply the best headshots I have had in my entire career…read more His set-up is so accessible, and he gave great instructions throughout to help me pose and get the best angles. My smile looked great, partly because I was laughing the whole time! He was encouraging, funny, and totally "got the vibe" I was looking for in my photos. I needed to look very professional and yet approachable...he nailed it.