Jodie Westfall Photography

While Jodie has a great attitude and is easy to work with, her photography skills are lacking. My husband and I received our disks last week and are extremely disappointed in the photos. Jodie took over 250 photos of our special day but I have not been able to glean even 15 that are usable for a photo book. Almost all the photos taken inside the chapel are either off centered, slightly crooked (not the dutch angle that is done for effect), or out of focus. The photos of people taken at the reception are typical candid pictures that anyone can take. Our photos represent a photographer who was unfocused. The day of our wedding Jodie told me she had to leave our wedding to go immediately on a business trip for her real job. Looking back, I wonder if she was concerned about her upcoming business trip so she was unable to give us her full attention and was in a hurry to get the job done. That might explain the lack of attention to detail in the photos. I even felt guilty knowing she had a long drive ahead of her and I told her to leave earlier than I had planned. I have tried to contact Jodie twice to no avail. I contacted another photographer to see if there is anyway some of these photos can be salvaged so we can have some nice pictures of our day. She said she couldn't believe this was the product I received from a professional photographer. When we hired Jodie, we knew photography was not her career - it's her hobby. We viewed a few of her portfolios and liked her work. Of course, looking back we now understand that the few portfolios we saw are probably what she has gleaned from tens of thousands of photographs. I would not recommend Jodie Westfall Photography. I would hate for another bride to shed tears over bad photos and to not have decent recorded memories of her special day. I would be happy to share the photos with you so you can see the quality I'm talking about. UPDATE: I finally spoke with Jodie today, 7/7/11. She has agreed to try to correct 31 of the photos I would like to use in a book by trying to edit them by sharpening the out of focus ones, straightening the crooked ones, and cropping the off-centered ones. I'll update as things progress.

Jodie did a fantastic job photographing our wedding! Since I was away at school, my mom did most of the talking with Jodie. But, on my wedding day, Jodie made a special effort to come talk to me about what I wanted. She was so kind and let me know she didn't want to bother me while I was getting ready, she just wanted to make sure I got what I wanted! I would recommend Jodie to anyone that wanted amazing service and friendly, knowledgable photographer. Thanks so much Jodie!!

Jodie was very caring right from the start. She made us feel very comfortable and happy to have her as our photographer. She was very flexible and easy to work with, and she was all about making us happy! I had absolutely no stress with the photography and she was a joy to be around! We love and cherish the pictures Jodie took for us!Thanks for capturing our special day!

My husband and I had the privilege of having Jodie take our engagement pictures. Jodie did a great job capturing the moment in our photo shoot. She had the perfect spot picked out for our first location and was very creative in posing us. We changed locations to go downtown and she did a great job with all of the bright colors and rustic scenes that we wanted to pose in. It was a great experience and I would recommend Jodie to take anyone's photos, no matter what the event is. She has a great personality and it makes things even better. We even received our pictures within 3 days of the shoot, which was very good considering how excited we were to see them.