Dana Goodson Photography

ll the beautiful photos! Also, she literally gave us our photos like 3 days after the wedding! Like what!!! So amazing. Highly highly highly recommend her. We will be ordering our wedding albums from her so soon! We loved having Dana being apart of our wedding day!!

aking pictures without being directly in the line of sight. The pace she kept was efficient and strategic. We had seen photos Dana had taken at different locations around Epping Forest, they were so classic and timeless we knew we needed to have her capture our wedding. The pictures Dana took will stay with us forever and continue to capture the beauty, love, and happiness of our wedding day! We look forward to Dana photographing many more special moments in our lives as they come. Thank you Dana! :) -Kayla & Michael

e had the exact list of all the formal family photos we wanted so the process would run smoothly and quickly. My husband and I would definitely recommend her!

to respond to emails and made sure that the package we purchased met our needs perfectly. She is the sweetest and most professional photographer I have ever worked with.

t to work with the very best and couldn't be happier with our wedding photos!

edding photos! They were absolutely perfect!! Dana is extremely experienced and makes you feel like she has everything covered from the preparation before the big day, and then all the way throughout! She easily kept track of the timeline and which pictures we requested, as well as came up with many of her own creative shots! The picture quality and angles were also gorgeous - not to mention her beautiful editing! Thank you, Dana!!

have to worry one bit about telling her what kind of pictures I wanted because I knew I loved her work and could trust her. I would recommend her to anyone!

y husband and I would recommend Dana to all of our friends, our pictures were better than we could have hoped.

how her professionalism throughout our entire wedding process. She knows the wedding process in and out and helped me set up a perfect timeline to keep my day on track. To top it all off, she had ALL of our wedding photos posted for us within a week of our wedding! She's really the best!

- And we are so grateful for that! Could not recommend her more to anyone looking for a photographer!

product soon, but have no doubt the shots are going to turn out amazing!

tures, from our engagement session to our wedding shots, we really could not have made a better decision. These are moments that we will have for the rest of our lives, and Dana captured them with such passion and magic. Thank you, Dana, for all of your hard work. We are so fortunate to have had you at our wedding. To anyone who is looking for a photographer, we HIGHLY RECOMMEND DGP! If you are looking for outstanding work by a passionate photographer, Dana Goodson is the one!

any family photos done...nothing! Dana worked with us so wonderfully through the entire process and allowed us to completely reflect on our day- and oh my goodness did she produce our beginning! She worked with us and helped us with our timeline, our picture coordination, and she worked with our videographers as if they were all one team! Our images returned to us in an extraordinairely timely manner and completely blew us away by how beautifully she was able to capture our wedding. My husband and I are so thankful to of had such a talented, responsive, and caring photographer on our most important day! Thank you!

Booking Dana for my wedding was the most important part of the planning process. She was kind, professional and easy to work with. The online payment and contract system was an absolute breeze and really put my mind at ease during a time that I was hearing price quotes from vendors and signing contracts every few days. Working with Dana at the wedding was incredible, she interacted so smoothly with my family and bridal party I forgot she was not an actual member of the family. She got incredible shots of our day without us feeling like we were part of an ongoing photo-shoot. Above all, Dana produced incredible imagines with a short turnaround time for me to share with family and friends. Booking Dana was undoubtedly the best decision I made in the wedding planning process. The value is incredible when you consider the expertise, attention and professionalism that goes in to each image. I cannot recommend Dana Goodson Photography enough.

ng pictures, etc. She is experienced, adorable, hard working and works well with other vendors. The most impressive part? Well, besides the pictures themselves... She mailed me a custom "Dana Goodson Photography" wooden + magnetic USB port with all of my high resolution pictures for us to keep. She knew going into the wedding that my husband and I weren't into the "cheesy" pictures. She managed to capture incredibly beautiful pictures without us feeling awkward whatsoever. Also, my mom used to be a wedding photographer years ago and [as you can imagine] my wedding pictures were important to the both of us. Dana did a phenomenal job and my mom totally approves! I highly recommend for anybody in the St. Augustine/Jacksonville/Amelia Island area!

r site, so with the great reviews I felt as though I could trust her to take great photos for our day. She did not see our Jacksonville wedding venue before the wedding day, which I assumed would be fine, assuming she would bring the tools and know-how to make it work wherever she was. I assumed wrong! Dana seemed fine and pleasant enough (though one additional gripe I have is that she waited until several DAYS before the wedding to call me on the phone to ask about some details - why that couldn't have happened sooner, I don't know, but we had to talk to her on the car on speaker phone running from place to place because it was such a busy time). However, I was pretty surprised at the quality of the photos we had done. They were entirely indoors, which could have been part of it (maybe she's more used to or trained in doing outdoor?!), but every single family/wedding party photo that we took in the synagogue sanctuary in front of the chuppah has awful lighting - it's as though she didn't know what equipment she would need, or didn't know what to use, or what - I have no idea, but correct lighting seems like it should be photography 101. In addition, I was unpleasantly surprised by how she laid out some of the photos, and also, the aisle that was holding our ketubah was standing in the background of some photos when anyone with an artistic eye should have known to remove it. It's possible she was flustered and didn't know or understand the space well enough, but unfortunately for us, all of those photos of the family and wedding party in front of the chuppah mostly suck. The rest of the photos were overall just ok, there's really only a handful of shots that I think are great, which is unfortunately. Finally, I had appreciated that Dana had a section on her website dedicated to photographs of "the details," which was important to me because I planned and designed the wedding myself. However, there were several important details from the day that just weren't photographed - for example, I had carefully set out a guestbook table with old family wedding photos, and she simply did not take any pictures of that (?!), and I had made a gorgeous and intricate welcome sign decorated with fresh flowers, that she took no pictures of. It just seemed like strange creative choices not to capture some of those things. I wanted to be able to love Dana, but unfortunately, given the work product that we ended up with in terms of the quality of our wedding photos, I can't recommend.

s. I did not want trendy photos, but photos I would love in 50 years, and Dana blew my expectations out of the water. She has a talent for lighting- each photo captures the light beautifully and she seemed to get every moment of the wedding day. We got married during the Nights of Lights in St. Augustine so we wanted some nighttime photos- and WOW! Not many people can create a beautiful photo shoot at night, but Dana certainly did. Aside from her talent, Dana is so sweet and personable- a true pleasure to work with (and that's very important when you are spending 10+hours with a person). Thank you for everything, Dana! We will treasure these photos and memories!

easure working with Dana to do our engagement photos and after seeing how great they turned out (and might I mention it was a rainy, overcast day) we could not wait to see what special moments she would be able to capture on our big day. They say if it rains on your wedding day it means good luck, which it did but that did not stop Dana from capturing the most amazing photos we could have ever imagined. Dana is so talented and truly has a passion for what she does..it shows in ever photo. Dana was so wonderful to work with and we would highly recommend. Thanks Dana for capturing moments from a day we will never forget but always be able to look back on!!!

was very professional and people remarked that it seemed like she was everywhere all night. The photos turned out so magical and capture every bit of wonder and happiness we experienced on the most important of days. I will say one thing, Dana does not do any photoshopping at all, which is why this is not a straight five star review. Fortunately, my husband has some photoshop skills and was able to remove her assistant and lights/cords, etc. out of some of the photos. I just felt the service should have included the thoughtful removal of those obvious obstructions at the price paid. That is the only complaint, however, on an otherwise overwhelmingly positive experience with a very talented photographer.

joy to work with and really felt like a friend, rather than a vendor, at our wedding. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

that she captured all the details of the wedding as I expressed this was important because I worked so hard on the small details as I did not have a wedding planner or day of coordinator. While we have not yet received our photos from our wedding as it is too soon, we know everything she does will be beautiful because our engagement pictures came out wonderfully! If you are looking for crazy trendy photo tricks Dana will not be right for you BUT if you are looking for someone that will take photos that will stand the test of time then Dana will be perfect for you as she is a very classic photographer that lets the beauty of the day and the way she captures the shot speak for itself. Dana communicates well with you to ensure you and her will be on the same page and she is such a people person!

ible way and really made our wedding day run smoothly. I look forward to hiring Dana again for any professional photographs we will need.