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About this vendor
Onda Pictures is a Paonia, CO, based wedding photography duo by Hanna and Fernando. Fernando is from São Paulo, Brazil, and Hanna is from Paonia, Colorado. They fell in love while studying photography in college in NYC. After getting married, they loved the wedding environment so much that they began photographing weddings and started their joint venture that brings together everything this duo adores about photography and some of life's most precious moments.
Fernando has a background in documentary and street photography, and on wedding days, uses this style to capture candid action in the environment as it naturally unfolds. Hanna has a background in fine-art photography and loves to find intimate details and special in-between moments. They cover all weddings as a team, combining their eyes and sensibilities as one. They strive to employ a unique, fine-art approach as well as their technical expertise to tell the unique story of every wedding and couple.
Having gone through the process of getting married, Hanna and Fernando know that the wedding day can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially when there are also cameras present. That is why they like to blend in and document the events of your day while interfering as little as possible. Knowing what it's like to relive their own wedding through photos, they aim to bring you that same joy, through thoughtful and creative photography.
Details
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
Photo Shoot Types
- Boudoir
- Bridal Portraits
- Day After Session
- Engagement
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Film Photography
- Photo
- Printed Enlargements
- Second Shooter Available
- Social Media Sharing
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Documentary
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
Awards and Affiliations
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When choosing vendors for our wedding, we knew that selecting the right photography team would be one of the most important decisions we made. Hiring Onda Pictures was easily one o...
f the best choices of the entire planning process, because Hanna and Fernando are a truly exceptional team. Their talent, eye for detail, and artistic vision set them apart, and they captured every part of our day with such authenticity and beauty, from the quiet emotion of the ceremony, to the joy of speeches during dinner, to the energy of the dance party afterwards.
Looking through our photos feels like being transported right back into each moment and definitely made us tear up. We will cherish these memories forever and are so grateful to Hanna and Fernando for giving us the gift of reliving our favorite day again and again. We truly can't recommend them enough, they are the absolute best!
I can’t give Hannah and Fernando enough stars. They were truly better than I could’ve asked for. First of all the photos are all phenomenal. You can tell they are both artists beca...
use they captured beautiful unique shots with hardly any directing or posing us. Everything felt and looks natural in the photos and we both feel like we look fantastic in them, which to me seemed impossible. Secondly they are the sweetest couple, just genuinely nice people. Hannah was such a lovely presence to have around while I was getting ready with the girls and my husband really enjoyed Fernando’s company. I definitely recommend making every effort to do your engagement shoot with them as well, so you get the chance to hang out and get to know each other. It was truly a pleasure working with this special couple, and we will treasure the photos forever.
YOU NEED TO HIRE THESE PHOTOGRAPHERS! Seriously though, hiring Onada Pictures was the best decision we made for our wedding. Our wedding photographs were absolutely stunning, and w...
e have received endless compliments on them!!! Even picking picture for this review feels impossible because we love them all. Hanna and Fernando have a talent for capturing the authentic emotions and memories of your special day. Not only are they amazing photographers, they’re also amazing people. They are extremely kind, fun, and easy to talk to. They truly took the time to get to know my husband, myself, and our vision for our wedding (from big items to all the small details). They were highly communicative, responding quickly and thoroughly, answering all our questions. We were so thankful to have them as such an integral part of our day. We couldn't have asked for a better experience with our photographers!!
Hanna and Fernando were INCREDIBLE. They did such a good job of balancing photo time with letting us enjoy time with our guests. They are also very kind people and made us feel rel...
axed and amongst friends. Some of our young adult guests started holding up parasols to "help" their lighting, and Hanna and Fernando were great sports. AND THEIR PHOTOS.... absolutely stunning. They have an incredible eye for light and color. I think their style is timeless and will always look stunning, even when we look back 50 years from now. We had our sneak peaks not even four days after the wedding, and we should get our full gallery in a month or so. I'm very excited to see the film photos! Thank you so much Hanna and Fernando!!
We had the best experience with Hanna & Fernando! They captured our wedding beautifully and we absolutely love the 35mm video that they made! My husband and I are fairly camera shy...
and prefer candid photos & Onda did a wonderful job capturing us and our guests! They were wonderful to have at our wedding. They are very kind and really wanted to get to know us before the wedding which made us feel so much more comfortable. Highly recommend! All of our photos are so beautiful, it’s hard to pick our favorites because we love all of them!
We couldn’t have asked for a better team than Hanna and Fernando! They are very talented photographers, capturing countless warm beautiful moments and we’re very happy with how eve...
rything turned out. We especially loved that they had the option to include film photography (which is a rare find for CO vendors). Only wished we included the video option! It was actually such pleasure to work with Hanna and Fernando, they are a down to earth couple and we connected immediately and felt at ease working with them throughout the process. They were incredibly responsive and easy to communicate with. Many of our guests even remarked on how helpful they were during the setup. Truly a dream team, don’t hesitate to book them!
Onda Photography was a dream for our wedding. Hanna and Fernando are compassionate, easy to relate to individuals that spent time ensuring they understood us and what we wanted to ...
represent in our wedding photos. From consultation to the day- of, they were on point. Hanna thought of things that weren’t even on my radar as a bride, and Fernando captured the most sincere moments. The results exceeded expectations and I could not recommend them enough, if you are looking- this is the dream team.
Hanna and Fe are amazing creatives. They made the whole day easy and fun. They produce the most beautiful images in a timely manner, you won’t be able to pick a favorite!
There aren't enough words to describe how absolutely amazing and stunning our wedding photos and Super 8 video turned out. Our Super 8 video is incredible and by far the best weddi...
ng video I have seen.
Hanna and Fernando were not only professional, personable, and engaged the entire 10 + hours of our wedding day but were able to effortlessly capture every special moment, which was no simple task because our wedding party alone was over 30 people. They were so patient and kind to our nieces and nephews (newborns to 11 year old), families, and friends.
As the bride, it was incredibly important to me that I had a photographer who put me at ease and made me feel beautiful while I was getting ready. Hanna went above and beyond. I am not a naturally photogenic or artistic person but you would never be able to tell when looking at the photos from our wedding day.
Do yourself a favor and hire them! You will not regret it.
Before I describe our wonderful experience with these two in more detail, I just want to say upfront that hiring Onda was easily the best decision we made for our wedding. Their ph...
otos were perfect, and the Super 8 video they made for us was unbelievably good. Even my dad, who is notoriously hard to please and always unimpressed, said without hesitation the photos they took were the best wedding photos he'd ever seen. They did a better job than we could have ever hoped.
I will always remember the first time we spoke with Hanna and Fernando. We had already talked to a handful of bland photographers who just seemed to be going through the motions, but these two were different. We made small talk in the beginning of the conversation, and Fernando mentioned they were doing some painting. Something about that line always stuck with me. After our conversation, we had pretty much made up our minds that we were going to hire them.
Still, we weren't really sure what to expect. Our wedding was going to be large (originally estimated 200+ people), our venues an old Catholic mission and a stuffy country club, which, to be honest, didn't really seem to fit with Hanna and Fernando's experience and style at the time. My wife's parents were even a bit uneasy about the choice, not sure if they could handle the task. Well, Hanna and Fernando were more than capable.
Due to COVID, we ended up doing a small formal ceremony with just immediate family on our original wedding date, and then the following year we did the reception as originally planned with a brief, light-hearted ceremony right before. Hanna and Fernando accommodated the scheduling change without issue and worked both events, even though they moved from Santa Cruz to Denver in between the two events, making a road trip back to Monterey for the reception.
Their work speaks for itself. The photos they took captured the emotions of the events and the personalities of our friends and families. They made the Super 8 video of the larger reception, and it turned out incredible. We gave them a couple songs to put in the video and they selected the rest, and each one matched up perfectly with the visuals they captured. We had 100% trust in them from the start, and that trust paid off.
Finally, as the title says, Hanna and Fernando are both amazing human beings. They connected with us and our families/friends, which certainly added to the beauty of their photos. After our first ceremony, we had a small gathering at our Airbnb and had Hanna and Fernando take photos for a couple hours. They ended up voluntarily sticking around beyond the time we hired them for, hanging out and capturing some candid, relaxed moments of us and our family. Their thoughtful and easygoing nature allowed them to both blend in while they worked and connect with the subjects of their photos. Despite seemingly being inexperienced, they expertly threaded the needle of letting the events happen in front of them and reacting accordingly while also being stern and direct when necessary to keep things on schedule and running smoothly.
I would fully recommend Onda to anyone for their photography needs, whether for weddings or any other event. You will get both talented, creative artists you can trust and professionals who can handle any type of event, whether it's small and intimate or large and chaotic. You will not regret your decision to hire them.
I really struggled at first to find a wedding photographer, as I find most wedding photography to be pretty cheesy. Given the crunch of vendors in 2022, I was close to hiring a pho...
tographer I didn't love when I saw Hanna and Fernando's work and absolutely fell in love with their art. Their photos are absolutely beautiful and strike the perfect balance of capturing the organic moment while ensuring that traditional wedding photos (family photos, etc.) are also shot. We recently did our engagement photoshoot and not only did the photos come out absolutely incredible, but Hanna and Fernando went above and beyond the entire time. From scoping out the location beforehand (which was a 1.5 hour round trip drive on their free time) in order to send us preview pictures, to making us feel completely at ease during the shoot, to delivering us the photos SO quickly -- it couldn't have been a better experience. Beyond their work, Hanna and Fernando are just solid, kind people. I'm truly obsessed with how amazing the photos turned out, and I cannot wait for them to shoot our wedding in 2022!
Hannah and Fernando were LOVELY and just what we needed for our tiny, low-key COVID wedding. They made us feel completely at ease while also making sure to get a variety of great s...
hots. They were totally down to adapt themselves to what we needed for our sweet but rather strange day -- Fernando even helped set up Zoom for some out-of-town relatives!
They easily accommodated our request for some black-and-white shots on film, as well as taking many digital pictures (we even got a few mini polaroids the day of the event that we LOVE!) They did a great job editing down what must have been an insane number of shots, and did it WAY, WAY faster than we had expected. (Surely COVID is part of this quick turnaround but we're talking one week -- Rockstars.)
Truth be told, I was hesitant to have photographers at all -- it seemed like an odd level of formality for the necessarily tiny event -- but I'm glad that my mother prevailed and suggested these two. Based on their website, it's clear they can also handle much longer/larger/fancier events than ours, but it's not every photographer who can scale back. Hannah and Fernando did so beautifully, and we recommend them in a heartbeat!
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