Anthony Photo Studio

Don’t waste your money! We booked a session with Claire, we arrived and she was very unprepared. She told us we would get our photos the next week. We had to badger her for almost 3 months before we got our disc. When we opened the disc the photos were of terrible quality. They were blurry and unfocused, she used some kind of «romantic» filter which removed anything useable from the images. We contacted her immediately and requested RAW unedited images, she would not return our calls or emails. After 2 more months we wrote a review about her on facebook to try and save anyone else from wasting their money. Within minutes of the review she contacted us furious that we would write a bad review (what did she expect? she SHOULD HAVE RETURNED OUR CALLS). She didn’t have any unedited copies of the photos and would not issue a refund whatsoever. We had to resort to hiring another photographer to try and photoshop them into useable images.

I got a recommendation to see Claire from some coworkers for whom she had done most of their professional marketing photography along with engagement photos and a wedding booking.
It came with something of a caveat that she was a character. Bright red hair, tattoos, a rockabilly kind of chick, I think that was how she was described.
She responded to my email promptly and got me booked in for a Sunday afternoon, and it was a totally relaxed experience, which for me was excellent as I hate being photographed. This wasn’t a cold, stodgy session with some grey haired eccentric shoving me into awkward positions. She just started shooting as we talked, laughed, and all that sort fo thing. It was a fantastic experience, with some breaks while she showed me some of what she had to work with.
Is Claire for everyone? Maybe not, and I ready Yulia’s review and have to wonder how much time she put into planning their wedding photography. Certainly there should be a good discussion beforehand of what you want, but I find her description not at all like my experience.

Claire of Anthony Photo Studio shot our wedding 2 years ago. And boy, it still hurts. She is very unprofessional. We were promised 2 PROFESSIONAL photographers on the day of the wedding, but another photographer apparently quit on her on the day of the wedding, so we got her and an assistant, a 17 year old girl with no experience. We think that you can expect your photographer to have a backup plan, but no. She took no photos of our guests, no photos of any dancing, mingling, NO CANDID SHOTS at all, 2 – 3 décor shots tops, no bouquet toss. When we confronted her about the above issues, she blamed other vendors getting in the way, said she had no time for reception photos because she was setting up a slide show, etc, etc. Quality of her photography is also mediocre, it’s a job for her, there’s no spontaneity or any drive in what she does. She is also very moody person, and we experienced it first hand: she rushed through our engagement photo shoot because she did not have her coffee and it was cold. When we met with her after the wedding to discuss our concerns with the quality of the photos, she promised she would provide us with all the negatives, may be we could salvage some shots, but she never did and never replied to our emails. We purchased the most expensive package, and we left extremely disappointed. We regret hiring Claire of Anthony Photo Studio to shoot our wedding. We advise you to do proper research and hire someone you trust. Don’t make our mistake.