5 out of 5 stars and 19 reviews
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(19)San Diego | Palm Springs |OC | SoCal | and the World
About this vendor
Based in San Diego, CA, The Kinship Perspective is a photography business that specializes in documenting momentous wedding occasions. As owner and lead photographer, Miranda Smith commits herself to helping couples preserve their wedding day memories in a way that allows them to relive the special moments again and again. Her willingness to go the extra mile for clients helps them to feel confident that such an important task is in the most capable hands.
Miranda has been in the industry for over 15 years, and has nurtured a reputation as a solid professional. Her knowledge and excellent work ethic are only second to her innate ability behind the camera lens. With over a decade worth of distinctly stylized wedding photographs, she has been known to adopt a photojournalistic approach to shoots. Miranda combines an artistic style with an editorial aesthetic, and often incorporates a vintage influence into her post-shoot edits.
This expert hopes to be more than just a hired camera and believes that each new client is a possible new friend. Miranda is dedicated to providing a personalized experience, ensuring every couple that their wedding is the most important thing on her mind. A range of post-wedding keepsake items can be arranged directly through The Kinship Perspective, including wedding albums, prints, and enlargements.
Details
Business Attributes
- Native American-owned Business
- Woman-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
Photo Shoot Types
- Boudoir
- Bridal Portraits
- Day After Session
- Engagement
- Trash The Dress
Photo & Video
- Digital Files
- Film Photography
- Online Proofing
- Photo
- Printed Enlargements
- Printed Proofs
Photo & Video Styles
- Artistic
- Classic
- Documentary
- Lifestyle
- Vintage
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Wedding
- After Party
Awards and Affiliations
2-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2022.2021.
Best of Weddings
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5
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Miranda was an absolute dream to work with! She is so much fun, and completely helped us feel comfortable in front of the camera. She captured photos all throughout the night and g...
uided us perfectly. Miranda does a great job of balancing extended families while also ensuring we got super fun candids. She has the most wonderful personality and you will definitely walk away at the end of the night with not only the best pictures in the world, but also a friend. I highly recommend Miranda for all your wedding photography needs!
Miranda was exceptional from the planning stage to the big day! I would recommend her to anyone. I met her when she was photographing my friend's wedding that I was a bridesmaid in...
, and I knew that I wanted her to be my photographer for our wedding day. She's organized, professional, and so sweet! She helped me find a videographer, assisted with the timeline for the wedding, drove 2 hours to my location, and made the whole day seamless and special. I could not recommend her more! Our photos are beautiful and she made our first look so special!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
Amazing to work with!!! Would recommend Miranda to anyone. She was very responsive and worked with me and my Fiance' during a tight schedule. Her photography feels very natural and...
she the eye for capturing those candid moments. She let us be ourselves and nothing felt forced. Well worth the cost and would hire her again anytime. 10/10. THANK YOU!!!
Words cannot express how highly I esteem the work of The Kinship Perspective. Miranda has been a friend of mine for several years now and I've had the pleasure of witnessing her in...
action as a bridesmaid for several weddings. I've always admired how she made everyone feel at ease. She makes the bride and groom feel like they're the only ones there and she captures all of those intimate moments that make you relive the event.
I was thrilled to have her shoot our engagement and wedding photos. She captured exactly what I wanted the wedding to be about- fun and celebration. There is so much joy and laughter in our wedding photos. I truly feel like I get to relive the day as I scroll through each photo.
She is professional, communicative and so timely! I highly recommend her for any of your photographing needs!!
We loved working with Miranda. She was extremely professional and is a true artist. There is a softness in Miranda’s images that capture your natural beauty and personality. She al...
so had some great advice with planning the wedding.
Miranda was the sweetest and had so much fun with us on our ridiculous journey of a wedding day. She caught every little detail of each performance and our ceremony, and was always...
just running around in the background unnoticed to capture these perfect shots. We are beyond happy with our photos and how easy it was to work with Miranda. We are going to book another mini session soon to get some extra photos in our outfits in other areas because they were so beautiful we have more ideas!!
Our wedding quite honestly probably wouldn't have happened without Miranda - we booked our venue without seeing it at her recommendation and with only a few months left (yes we're ...
those people), and it was seriously the most beautiful venue we could've asked for - and we have the photos to prove it! Even with the heat, she was so patient and caught some of the most majestic photos ever. She made us feel comfortable and was so patient and wonderful to work with. Absolutely recommend.
Miranda took photos for our wedding and then designed a wedding album for us afterward, which turned out perfectly. Her sense of style is terrific. We always found her to be incred...
ibly warm and professional. She consistently worked to ensure that our experience was as good as possible. 10/10 would recommend to anyone.
Miranda does amazing work! She shot our wedding photos, and they are amazing! Would highly recommend. She is very kind, through, and goes the extra mile.
Miranda is ridiculously easy to work with. My husband and I are those people who don't actually like taking pics but we love having them. Miranda puts even camera shy people like u...
s at ease. She is friendly, easy to communicate with, professional, creative, and above all, very talented. Our photoshoots with her (we've done 2) have given us memories we will always treasure.
I am very happy I went with Miranda for our wedding photographer. Not only is she very sweet and good at putting you at ease, she had a lot of the practical things I was looking fo...
r as well. It was important to me that my photographer give a full print release so me and my family could print as many of my beautiful wedding photos as I want, anywhere I want. Miranda has a very reasonably priced lab she works with if you want professional quality prints and I did order some, but it was also nice to be able to go to Costco and print some there too.
Her service is a great value and she is very upfront with her pricing. No surprises or special fees. She scouted my location ahead of time and gave me a form to fill out so I could tell her exactly what shots were important to me. You can add on an engagement and/or boudoir shoot to your package as well.
Her photography style really captured the romantic meadow feel I was going for and I get compliments on the shots hanging in my house. Miranda also gave me a special locket with our photos as a thank you for my business. Highly recommend.
Miranda made our wedding day very memorable. The pictures she took turned out awesome. She took the list of pictures we wanted and many more. She captured the day perfectly. We...
have also used her to take high school graduation pictures and family pictures. Every time we use her she doesn't disappoint and we always have a lot of fun taking the pictures.
Miranda did an exceptional job capturing our day down to the very last detail. She was very professional and personable which was a real plus. My wife had 7 little flower girls and...
Miranda did such a great job of capturing all of the interactions between them as she came down the isle. I'm definitely not sure how she managed to do it, maybe teleportation or CROSSFIT, but Miranda seems to be everywhere all at once. At least it seems that way when I look though our wedding photos.
To top it all off she managed to steal us away at sunset to get some gorgeous photos within the oaks surrounding our venue. Just an exceptional experience!!
Working with Miranda was nothing short of an absolute pleasure and joy. Not only was she kind, considerate, thoughtful, and detailed to work with, she produced incredible works of ...
art which we treasure at look at in our house everyday.
Miranda has an amazing way of disappearing as a photographer, in the best way. She appeared occasionally to bring out the best in us, our families and friends, then truly escaped into the background and captured our day as it was, letting it be special and highlighting its beauty with her photos. Her aim was always letting us shine in the easiest, loveliest way. And she exceeded that aim and our expectations.
Our parents love the parent albums she created for us, and we love the photos we have framed in multiple rooms in our house. Miranda has helped us savor our wedding day in a way I didn't expect and will value forever.
We have been using Miranda to take our family photos for years. She does amazing work and she makes everyone feel so at ease! She always seems to get the best candid shots. I would...
highly recommend her!
Miranda was amazing to work with! Our meetings went smoothly and she was always responsive whenever we needed her. She captured the moments that were very important to us. She also...
worked with our time constants and helped us to stay on schedule. I think some of my favorite pictures are the ones she captured when we had no idea. I would highly recommend Kinship Perspective to anyone!
Miranda was a joy to work with. She captured sweet moments that I didn't even notice until I saw the photos afterwards as well as more traditional family shots without making them...
feel too starched and posed. Miranda has a way of making you feel comfortable in your own skin - whether she's working with someone who is typically shy and doesn't like being in front of the camera or a little kid who is super cute but who can't sit still for one second. Working with Miranda to plan ahead of time was easy and she was very professional by telling us exactly what we could expect from her but also being willing to go with the flow to meet our needs and to come up with a spur of the moment shots to capture the mood. We were delighted with our experience with Miranda, as was everyone else who interacted with her. I highly recommend using her for your engagement, wedding, or anything in-between!
Miranda was everything I could have hoped for in our wedding photographer. She was present when I needed her and hidden in the shadows when it was important to give space for us to...
experience our day. The photos she gave us to remember our day are priceless and stunning. It's 2 years later and I still love looking at them just to look.
Although my photoshoot was for maternity purposes, I had to leave a review on my experience with booking The Kinship Perspective. Miranda was kind enough to help me capture my preg...
nancy photos during the pandemic. (We met outdoors and practiced social distancing the entire time.) It rained pretty bad the night before but Miranda was still confident we could still have a great shoot. Boy was she right!! Without making a long story longer, Miranda was amazing from start to finish. Very punctual in timing, comforting, and very easy to follow with her instruction. She gave me room to pose on my own but always stepped in when she saw I was unsure of my positioning. Hands down, she was a phenomenal photographer and I have already told her she has to do my wedding photos (when that day comes)! In the final edits on my pictures, you can’t even tell it was raining, let alone cloudy! I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome. Thank you so much Miranda.
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