Diane Bagaoisan Photography

Diane is not only an insanely talented photographer, but she is also an amazing human. I could not have asked for a better person to capture our unforgettable wedding day - she was attentive, organized, amazingly stealthy and strategic in catching the best moments without anyone even knowing, hugely creative and so easy to work with. She put my mind at ease during the stressful moments of the day and our whole wedding party loved her. If you're looking for outstanding photos with a great attitude, Diane is your gal!

Words cannot describe how amazing Diane was, but we will attempt to explain in this review. She was very communicative leading up to the wedding. Her questionnaires were to the point and it allowed us to get on the same page. At the wedding she was a rock star, always in the right place at the right time and super easy to work with. After the wedding was over she quickly got us some sneak peak photos. Once all the photos dropped we were AMAZED. They looked great! Also her website allowed us to order framed photos. The packaging is top notch and the framed photos look great. ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND DIANE for your wedding.

Diane is a fantastic photographer. We hired her for our out of town wedding in Sonoma County. Diane was extremely patient, accommodating and kind. She was also very timely and punctual, which goes a long way with me. She was able to build rapport quickly and help us (and our guests!) feel comfortable in front of the camera. She is also just a lovely, caring person that we would love to work with again.

Diane did an amazing job! She got every picture, angle, pose etc that you can think of. She also makes every picture look perfect! She got us a sneak peek with a few days and we had all of our pictures fairly quickly. Highly recommend! She books up fast so hurry!

Words can’t describe how wonderful Diane is! She is beyond talented and so great to work with. She made a vested interest in getting to know my husband and I, which made our photos and our wedding day so special. She even helped me put on my veil! I would recommend Diane a million times over.

Diane is such a delight to work with! We did the engagement shoot + wedding photo bundle and I can't recommend it highly enough. Diane gets to know her clients, and she came up with a plan for our engagement photo shoot that was perfectly tailored to us (botanical garden + a local brewery). She also did a lot of the prep work for the actual event, coming with us on venue tours/rehearsal, drafting a timeline for us, and scouting a location for the first look (since we couldn't use our venue for it). On the day of, she went above and beyond, arriving early for getting ready photos and staying late to make sure she got some photos of the dancing. She kept things moving during the posed photos to so that we were actually ahead of schedule (!) even though we had asked her to do an ungodly number of combinations of family/wedding party photos. We didn't have to think about anything all night - she came and grabbed us when she needed us, and she already knew what shots she wanted to get. And she got our sneak peek photos to us the next day, and they came out so great! Loved working with Diane and would gladly do it again!

Diane is AMAZING to work with! We hired her as both our engagement and wedding photographer. She is so knowledgeable, made us feel comfortable instantly, and is such a fun and kind person to work with. Diane is truly an expert at her craft--we haven't even received our entire wedding album yet, only the sneak peeks, but we can already tell that it is going to be GOLD. She has such an amazing eye for both detail shots and landscape shots and is absolutely an amazing storyteller. We received major compliments from our engagement shoot and I'm confident that our wedding photos will be no different! In addition, she was such a great resource as we were creating our big day. She had invaluable advice from vendors to timelines and everything in between. She is a real gem of a person and photographer and we will definitely be booking her again for some of her portrait work in the future!

My husband and I got married at SF City Hall earlier this year just the two of us. We worked with Diane for the photos - she was great to work with, made us feel comfortable, and the photos turned out beautiful!

Finding a photographer who would make us feel comfortable while making us look our best on our special day was important for us. We found much more than a photographer with Diane. She was our hype woman, location scouter, vendor referrer, and nerve reliever! Diane has become more than just our wedding photographer to us, of all the vendors we hired we agreed that Diane was our favorite to work with! We had her capture our engagement shoot and our wedding day. Not only did she scout our engagement shoot location but she trekked along with us to find the perfect scenery to paint a background in our photos. Everything felt natural with her from whispering our In N Out orders in each other’s ears to studying each other’s faces to capture the right moment without ever feeling like we were being directed to pose a certain way. She went to our wedding rehearsal to tour our venue location to get a feel of the best spot to take photos (none of our other vendors aside from our coordinator were at our rehearsal I felt this was really above and beyond that she did this). We even got a couple shots for memories of us rehearsing. Leading up to our wedding day we didn’t hear from a lot of our other vendors and had to proactively reach out (blame it on the popularity of weddings this Sept/Oct) but Diane had proactively reached out to us and was always very responsive. Our wedding day she brought along a second photographer and the both of them were a blast. 3am after our wedding I got a message from Diane with preview photos from our wedding. I already told my husband that we’re going to Diane for holiday family photos and would not hesitate to recommend her to any other couple. She is seriously one of the best decisions we made for our wedding.

Diane was absolutely fantastic from the first call of inquiry to the sharing of the final photos! The weather wasn't the best on our big day, but Diane captured moments that we will treasure always and are proud to share with our loved ones. She was always punctual, a pleasure for all to work with, and an overall dynamo!

Diane was the perfect choice for our surprise proposal/engagement and she even gave us a few photos ON THE DAY OF! My fiancé secretly booked her to capture the moment when he proposed in Napa at Castello di Amorosa. She was so professional and seemed really excited to take our photos. She actually called the venue ahead of time to get permission which gave us unfettered access to the location to take photos after the proposal at which time she directed us all around the castle and vineyard, helping us pose, and the pictures turned out AMAZING. I mean, we look like a damn advertisement for love thanks to her. These photos made sharing with friends and family so easy and fun. There is no one better out there. I guarantee it.

This review is long overdue! My husband and I got married on August 1, 2020. Yes, smack dab in the middle of COVID. We had been planning our wedding for a little bit over 1.5 years. We wanted to make sure everything was perfect for our guest list of 400, so we started the wedding planning early. Then COVID struck and all our wedding planning went down the drain. Many of our vendors had cancelled on us, while other vendors were not flexible (causing us to lose our deposits). After weighing out all the additional money we would lose, we decided to carry on with our original wedding date. We cut down our wedding from 400 people to 25 people (immediate family in the same households). Our original photographer had cancelled on us and our friend recommended Diane. We were so lucky she was available. Diane was literally our saving grace! From day one, during our first Zoom call, we could tell that Diane was organized and passionate in the work she does. She is very detail-oriented and talked us through the whole process. We were already so stressed with having to re-plan our wedding over and over again to meet COVID guidelines, but Diane helped make the process so smooth. She coordinated with our wedding venue directly before the day of wedding to plan the locations of our photos. She even visited our venue before our wedding day to get an idea for the perfect lighting! She literally thought of everything! Above all, there was one particular detail that really demonstrated how remarkable she is at what she does. We didn't even mention it to her, but one thing we were excited to have at our wedding venue was this large square crystal chandelier in the dining hall for our first dance. Unfortunately, since our reception was cancelled, as COVID restrictions prevented indoor dining, we had to cancel our chandelier (and lost our deposit from the vendor). Come to our surprise, the venue had the same chandelier in the dining/reception area during the day of our wedding just for staging. Diane saw the chandelier in the venue and went above and beyond to coordinate with the manager so we can take photos under it! Diane took gorgeous photos at our original venue for our ceremony. We had our reception in the backyard and the photos she took in our background looked so incredible! They looked just as magical as if we had the reception at the venue! Overall, Diane was the best vendor we worked with during this stressful wedding process. I feel so awkward in front of the camera, but Diane made me feel so comfortable! She is so professional, friendly, detail-orientated, organized, and overall is genuinely passionate in the work she does. Even after the wedding, she continued to communicate with us to keep us in the loop until we received our photos. Lastly, on a side note, her photos were so remarkable that our wedding photos were actually featured in Diablo Magazine! If you are searching for a photographer, for any event, I highly recommend Diana Bagaoisan Photography! You will not regret it!

We are so grateful for Diane, and my friend who referred her because she made our wedding day unforgettable! When the pandemic hit we had to change our 150 person wedding to just us in a church. We just wanted to get married and so we hired a photographer to go take pics in our favorite spots after the church ceremony and it turned into a magical intimate and even sexy sort of couples therapy/spiritual retreat shoot. Not only did the pictures turn out AMAZING, but we got soooooo much more from the experience. As someone who HATES taking pictures, Diane made me feel comfortable and she really focused in on us. She had us recount loving memories, say our favorite things about each other and even had us dance in a gazebo to our song, which she played on her phone. She really made a day that could have been a glaring reflection of the pandemic into a special, unique and beautiful experience my husband and I will never forget.

Diane was an absolute dream to work with! She was so sweet and bubbly, we had our wedding out in a field and dirt and dust was everywhere. She never complained or said we couldn’t get a shot because of the location. I am so glad we chose to work with Diane, she captured every moment of my dream wedding and I couldn’t be happier with her work!

Diane was amazing!! She went above and beyond her role as a photographer. She is worth every penny! Very sweet and understanding and took breath taking pictures! She knew exactly how to have us pose and in what lighting. She is the best and must have on your wedding day.

Diane was wonderful from our first meeting to the delivery of our beautiful prints! She has a great personality that made us feel at ease during our stressful moments, but what really drew us to her was her unique style. She doesn't just shoot stuffy formal shots, she captures the atmosphere, and as soon as we saw our photos we were in awe. We also received several comments from family members about how impressed they were that they hardly noticed that she was there during the ceremony instead of blocking the view of the guests to get the shot, like most photographers. Thank you, Diane, for helping us relive our special day over and over with our beautiful photos!

Diane is an extraordinary photographer! I am so thankful we had the privilege of having her at our wedding and also capturing the most beautiful moments❤️ We will be looking forward to her taking my pregnancy photos in the future🥰

Diane was our photographer for our intimate 85 person wedding. It was a second marriage for both myself and my wife - so we had lots of family, and even our 3 children involved. Diane did an absolutely fabulous job - on the engagement pictures, the wedding itself, and then on a large format - 20 image - metal frame photo wall we crafted for our living room afterwards. So what made Diane so special? I would say first and foremost is her ability to capture the spirit of each of the most important people in the wedding. For example, in the engagement photos - she captured perfectly the playfulness of my step-son (14), the animal-loving of my oldest daughter (13) and the confident beauty of my youngest daughter (10). The pictures she took of our family together brought forth the spirit of our integrated family. And for my wife and I together she captured our new love in creative ways with images that flattered us both. At the wedding, she did some very smart things. Before the wedding, she had an assistant - and captured lots of details from both separate preparations of the bride and the groom. At the wedding itself, she caught all of the special moments - once again specializing on bringing out the spirit and personality of individual subjects. We now have amazing pictures of my mother-in-law, my dad and my aunt, captured in their best light. Once again, she also caught the small details of place settings, flower arrangements, the venue itself, that bring to life the overall spirit and feel of the wedding. It all came together in our photo wall... Instead of a traditional album - what we decided to do was fill a large living room wall we have with a 9 ft x 3 ft arrangement of 20 photos and collages - from the proposal, our engagement, the wedding, and our honeymoon - to tell the story of our new family and life together. Diane help us with the photo selection, the cropping, photoshopping small imperfections and lighting corrections. This was really important because she helped us not just with her own photos, but also photos I had taken for the proposal and the honeymoon - that needed a lot more fixing! This is also where it paid off to have great pictures of each family member - and each of those little details . She put together mock spreads so we could simulate how it would look before printing and hanging. Then she used her industry contacts to help us order the actual metal prints from a high quality printer at a very reasonable price, with her industry discount. The overall impact is stunning... we have beautiful photos that capture the spirit of our entire family in a gorgeous installation - that we get to look at every day, and is a constant conversation piece whenever we have visitors. All in all - I would highly recommend Diane, for her acute eye, creativity as artist, craftsmanship with her cameras and software - and ability to execute on complex projects that capture the real narrative and spirit of an entire wedding!

Diane did an amazing job, we loved all of our wedding photos! My favorite were the candid photos. The process from beginning to end went smoothly. We first had a phone interview then an in-person meeting where she asked a lot of good questions to make sure she understood what we wanted from our special day. Diane was very professional and made us feel comfortable, which is very important when choosing a photographer. We highly recommend Diane!

Diane has been very helpful throughout our wedding planning and post wedding experience. She is very responsive over email and text message. We have since received all our photos and we love them especially the special moments she captured. Which was what we were looking for in our wedding photographer. We couldn’t have asked for a better wedding photographer.

We cannot say enough amazing things about Diane! Photography was extremely important to us while planning our wedding; these are images you will look back on for the rest of your lives. And by choosing Diane for our wedding photography, we have all of our wonderful memories beautifully captured to look back on forever. She captured the big moments so eloquently and also managed to capture everything happening around us at the same time! She has a knack for observing the entire situation and focusing in on all the candid details that make your day so special. We get so many compliments on all of our wedding photos, but some of our personal favorite pictures are from during our ceremony. Diane captured our family members and guests during our ceremony so we were able to see our loved ones reactions to us finally tying the knot! In particular, our moms looking at each other smiling and crying happy tears. It was quick moment between them that we didn't notice, but she did! And we are so glad she did because it was so special to see that and have that moment captured! Not only is Diane extremely talented behind the camera, she is genuinely a wonderful human being who cares so much about her couples, their families and guests. Our families and friends loved working with her. Everyone still talks about how magnificent Diane was!! Thank you Diane for giving us beautiful memories to look back on forever! You are absolutely incredible!

Diane is such an amazig photographer! She was able to capture a lot of the intimate moments throughout our wedding. Meeting her was a delight as she kept in contact with my husband and I before and after the wedding. The turnaround time for the photos were very quick and it was very sweet of her to send us a nicely packaged glass photo box containing the printed photos of the important moments. We would definitely recommend her!

Diane is an amazing photographer! My wife and I were lucky we stumbled upon her for our wedding. Diane is very professional at what she does. One thing we enjoyed most was just be around her. Super friendly and very down to earth. We love how are pictures came out and would definitely recommend her!

Diane is awesome! She was the photographer for our engagement shoot and wedding. She responded quickly to my emails and was very pleasant to work with. I really enjoyed the quality of her work as well.

It was an absolute pleasure to have Diane as our wedding photographer! She was very helpful for both of us and was very quick to answer every question we had and offered advice from her past experiences. She even made a trip to us from Modesto to meet us in person and get a feel for our venue, which we really appreciated since we were based in Southern California. For the day of, everything ran as smooth as possible (with a large wedding + bridal party) and she was very good at keeping us as on schedule as possible. She was also good with letting things happen and going with the flow- we really wanted a split between posed and candid photos, and she got a great mix of both for us! The online gallery and the physical set of photos were delivered on time (actually, quicker than she originally told us!) and were really everything we were hoping for. The jewel case with physical photos really stands out as something unique that always catches someone's eye when we have people over. We couldn't be happier and are very glad we went with Diane for photos!

Diane and I met when we were both freshmen in college in Sacramento. I came back to Southern California to finish school closer to home, but we remained friends on social media. I witnessed her career as a professional photographer take off, and I was definitely impressed by the quality of her work. 10 years later, my fiance and I were searching for a photographer- I immediately thought of Diane. I felt comfortable knowing it was someone I knew and someone whose work I trusted. We scheduled a phone conference and my fiance also realized that we had found our wedding photographer. She worked with us to set our timeline, pricing, listening to our concerns whilst sharing her experiences and giving us her honest opinion. When everything was set and done, Diane met with us a day before to scout the locations (3 separate locations for the wedding day), talk about our preferences and set a timeline. When the day of the wedding came, she was punctual and arrived at a house of coordinated chaos! The wedding day was absolutely perfect, and as stated by my family, "Your photographer is everywhere! She's so fast!" Diane was spotted in all parts of our home ceremony and reception, making sure to get amazing photos of our family and friends celebrating with us. We definitely recommend Diane to anyone searching for not only wonderful pictures but for a great experience with a vendor to whom you entrust an important occasion. Diane embodies what a true photographer is; knowledgeable, observant, organized, creative and understanding of their clients. You'll be enjoying your wedding (or any other event) knowing that your most important day is being taken care of and that the photos will be spectacular. And we're pretty proud we get to be her first wedding clients in Southern California too! Thanks for everything Diane! We appreciate it tremendously. Beatriz and Varun