SD Photo Studio

As an update, Chris was able to get us the online version of our photos fairly quickly — maybe 2 months after the wedding; however, it was one of those online albums that you have to purchase the photos in order to have the actual file. When I emailed Chris about it, he said that he would sell us the digital prints for $ 100 (we knew that already from our previous conversations) — no problem!
He was still working on finishing up the long video, and said that he would just put everything onto some CDs & send it all to us when we were done. Fast forward 10 months… we finally got the CDs and digital delivery (via Dropbox) a few weeks after our 1^st anniversary. So that seemed kind of excessive. Chris emailed me before I even said anything, and said that he would give us the digital prints for free because of the delay — great!
The reason the review is so much lower than the original is –1 for the length of time it took us to get everything… and –1 for the quality of the long video. The long video was the reason for the delay (lots of technical issues apparently?), but when we got it, the first 5 minutes was just the short video, and then for the remaining 12 minutes, it seemed like they had just thrown some footage together. Chris had let me know that they missed the beginning of my maid of honor’s speech because they were eating dinner (at this point, I didn’t care too much), but then the footage that we got cut off my maid of honors speech at the beginning AND at the end… and didn’t even have any footage of the best man’s speech (his speech was after the MOH speech).
The good news: we are happy with the photos — they are all so great and the short video is also great!

Really a fun setup Chris has — totally think this was well worth the price, and it was very new and exciting — we were at our niece’s wedding and they had this awesome thing set up and we really wanted to try it out. Thanks again man, I really liked this service!

My husband and I hired Chris for our engagement and wedding photos, and also wedding video coverage — we absolutely loved everything!
I think unless you’re a model, professional photography can get stagy and sometimes awkward (think prom pictures, or stiff wedding photos) …since I am not a model, I REALLY appreciated Chris’s ability to make us feel comfortable and pick up on our personalities and style. Our pictures are stunning, and genuinely reflect our true selves.
We loved all of Chris’s photos and video coverage! All of our friends and family said that going through his photos was like reliving our special day, he really captured every moment.
Chris was great to communicate with and had a really great turnaround time on the photos and video — I would recommend him to anyone! We will be using him going forward for all of our exciting life events :)
Thank you Chris!

I met Chris through a class he taught at UCSD Extension (Digital Darkroom).
Having learned that he had a business, I asked him if he would print a couple of large prints of two of my favorite pictures, and actually print one of them on canvas and then stretch and canvas on a wooden frame. In fact, I didn’t know this was a ‘thing’ until it came up in our conversation.
After I sent him the digital images, we had a back and forth about certain aspects of the pictures and asked if he could tweak them a bit and send me back the revised images. I said ok, he did, and, of course, the tweaked images were better.
I loved the end product. The canvas print hangs where I see it every day, and I never stop loving it.
Recently, we celebrated a milestone birthday of my wife and took a picture of all the sons and their wives and children. I thought of Chris and how it would be great to gift each of the sons a canvas print of the whole family.
Again, to make a long story short, he did a fantastic job, gave me a good price, finished ahead of the promised date, and the finished products are superb.
This man understands customer service, will talk with you, not down to you, and will make sure you get what you want.

All I can say about Chris… Is WOW! Fantabulous photos and an absolute pleasure to work with!!! Just did the engagement photos and am so looking forward to the Wedding in two weeks!!! Use him, you will be very happy you did!!!

Chris photographed my daughter and son in law’s wedding and just did a photo shoot for my business (website and collateral material). Both occasions were well done, well planned and the photography was excellent and an excellent value as well.
The wedding was a venue with mixed indoor/​outdoor at the beach and the shots were amazing. In addition, Chris and an assistant, did pre-​wedding shots (in the rooms and outdoors) as well as accommodate a personalized «photo booth» set up by the bridesmaids. The delivery of the pictures was timely as well.
For the business photo shoot, Chris was ready to go and had thought out the questions to ask of us and our marketing team. He was flexible and accommodating and this was almost entirely indoor shots with some outdoor and the quality remained consistent. He delivered the shots on time and in the format requested by the marketing team.
Also, Chris is a nice guy, easy to work with and has a great eye for composition and color in a shot. I would definitely recommend him for any photo needs. Now I want to get some shots of me and my husband for our 30 year wedding anniversary ;-)

Chris Wood photographed our beach wedding this past weekend and was amazing! He was great to work with. Captured our special day perfectly! I would recommend him to anyone looking for a wedding photographer in the San Diego area.