I love Michelle Able! Her work is incredible! Not only is she a trained professional with several years of experience and clients across the country (don’t let her age fool you), but she is also an incredibly sweet, warm person who makes it e...asy to open up in front of a camera. She loves seeing couples and families together, and I believe she has a way of making every client feel as if they are the most special client she’d ever photographed. It’s very difficult to feel comfortable and natural in posed photos, but Michelle is very relaxed and helped us loosen up. By the end of the engagement and wedding photo shoots, we were cracking jokes which allowed her to catch some gorgeous candid moments that brought life to our photos.
I met Michelle while we were looking for someone to photograph our wedding. I was blown away by her gorgeous portfolio and her down to earth personality. She has always been very easy to work with, professional, friendly, and very quick to respond. She was very accommodating regarding our wedding schedule, and she has even allowed us to save my “bridal shoot” for something else in the future (e.g. “trash the dress”). She worked incredibly hard on our wedding day for a total of 11 hours!
Michelle has a very keen understanding of lighting. She knows how to use the sun’s natural light to her advantage in order to get soft, glowing, and flattering photographs. Each photo looks bright, crisp, and clean while still maintaining a soft, delicate feel and never being unnaturally oversaturated or smoothed over (think orange skin and most quinceañera photos – yikes!). :) She also finds a way to make each photo tell a unique story by often using shallow depth of field, allowing the subject to stand out from the soft background. Her presentation is also gorgeous. Our engagement album was printed on thick, heavy sheets of pressed board, and the cover was a soft and thick, wrapped in cream suede. The whole album was wrapped in satin. She also gave us a copy of all of our photos on a usb drive encased in a 5x5 pressed board booklet with another photo on the cover (we’ve hung that up as a “canvas” print, too).
The total wedding package we purchased was WELL WORTH it. Michelle is an experienced professional and will provide nothing less than the best. Her wedding packages come with a plethora of goodies from canvas prints, albums, and digital copies to wedding, engagement, and bridal shoots. Having seen the garbage that other area photographers offer at a discount, I would book Michelle 100 times over. Her work is beautiful, and she’s the only photographer I’ll ever book again! SIX stars!