Justin Lee Portland

hy and has found a way to make money with his talents ... but I didn't get the vibe of a professional running a true business. My wife fell in love with his website, and had pretty much pre-decided this was the photographer she wanted for our wedding, so meeting him was mostly a formality. I told her after the meeting that I was concerned about the lack of professionalism. I told her that I felt we'd probably get great photos, but I could envision it taking Justin a longer-than-reasonable amount of time to get the photos back to us. So we hired Justin, and he worked our wedding in mid-July of 2017. For the most part, we liked the photos he took. Some of them are amazing, a lot of them are pretty good. I'm not sure how many he discarded (as opposed to sharing them with us), but I was a little disappointed with how many of them we found unflattering and wanted to throw away. I also thought there would have been more photographs in general. There were also a couple of memorable moments at the wedding that he somehow missed ... I was originally led to believe that he would have a second photographer helping out, but that turned out to not be the case - my assumption is that if there were two photographers, those memories would have been captured ... doesn't really matter, point is those moments weren't caught. In Justin's defense, he gave us a few "preview photos" the very next day, that we were able to share with friends and family (like 10 or so). A couple weeks later, people started asking us to see the rest of our photos, so we started asking Justin when they would be ready. We didn't get the photos until September ... basically 6 weeks after the wedding. While not exactly outrageous, I'd say that's a bit on the late side of things ... most professional studios said they get the photos back to clients within 3 to 4 weeks. But there were also several issues - the photos were available to be seen by anyone off his main page of albums; there were several photos we didn't want shared with anyone; we didn't get links that could be shared with anyone ... just a bunch of little things that I'd place in the "unprofessional" column ... point being, we actually didn't get the photos such that we could share them with friends and family until MID OCTOBER! At this point, I'm not impressed, but Justin is very apologetic, and at least people can finally see the pictures. Next up, we had said all along we wanted to give albums to both sets of parents as gifts. These additional albums were to be carbon copies of the album Justin gives to the wedding couple (us) as part of his service. We gave Justin our photo selections for the albums in September. On multiple occasions over the next few months, we inquired as to the status of the albums - stressing the importance of wanting to give them to our parents as Christmas gifts. Justin didn't have the albums ready until January ... so we missed Christmas ... which to me, was totally unacceptable. But it gets better ... the price of the albums was way more than the price he had mentioned verbally when we first met him ... had I know the astronomical price he was charging for each album, I never would have ordered them. So now we've paid a fortune for late Christmas presents. Just fair warning.