Palos Studio | Louis & Erin Palos

By accident we bumped into their website link a few months ago- and it was inevitable that they were the best choice we could make for our wedding photographers. They are super nice and easy to work with. When I found out they were available our date and in our budget- we just couldn't resist!!! Like it was meant to be!

We just had our engagement pictures in downtown San Juan Capistrano today- just as we had wanted- I cannot wait to see the pictures!!! I can't tell you how comfortable we were working with them, and it makes me that much more excited for our big day!

I will update more after our big day!!!

- HMM :)

After seeing their amazing blog and work, I knew I wanted them shoot our wedding. We were nervous about booking them without meeting them (we live in NYC and our wedding was in So. California) but they came with rave reviews so we trusted them and booked them for our June 2009 wedding. Our engagement session was awesome! They are super talented and down to earth and funny! Working with them has been great. They are super easy to get a hold of, very understanding, and the easiest to work with! We LOVED our e-pics! On our wedding, they were there early and eagerly looking for great shots to take. That was a major relief because i'm sure they captured every little detail that we worked hard on for our wedding! I can't wait to see those pics! Oh and also, their work is going to be featured in a webazine article featuring our wedding! :)

Oh my goodness, I just can't say enough about Erin & Louis at Palos! I actually found them after my original photographer backed out on us a month before the wedding. Thankfully they hadn't booked up on our date! I chose them because all of their images are timeless, crisp & clear & so gorgeous! They worked with our budget due to booking on such short notice. I actually planned an out of state wedding, so I never got to meet them in person until the day of the actual wedding. They showed up on time ready to shoot on my wedding day. I loved the fact that they were young like us & had fresh ideas. They were very easy to get along with & made us feel comfortable right away.

When I saw our teaser photos on their blog I was completely blown away. I have never seen such beautiful photos in my life. Every single person that sees them comments on how our photographs belong in a magazine. I can't stop looking at them & am so happy with our decision to book Palos Studio. I am beyond excited to get our CD with all of our images. I would book them again in an instant if I had to do this all over again. I highly recommend Palos to anyone looking for a talented set of photographers. Definitely my fave wedding vendor!!!

We just booked our date with Louis and Erin Palos. They were so friendly and personable in their emails, so we had high hopes for our actual meeting. They were just as funny and natural in person - as soon as we walked in I knew they were the right photographers for us. Their work is also very impressive - my fiance and I knew we wanted clean, crisp photos without a lot of effects/retouching, so they were perfect for us. I'll update this after our engagement session and wedding, but our first impression of them is extremely positive.

Update (3/12/09) - Our e-session went really well! Erin met us at UCLA and we walked all over the campus shooting pictures. It was a little weird to have someone following us taking pictures at first, but Erin has a really great personality, so we relaxed pretty quickly. Some of my favorite shots from the session were from places Erin suggested - and she has a great eye, so she was suggesting areas that never would've occurred to me. We were very pleased with our pictures and received many compliments.

Update (7/4/09) - Erin and her two shooters were amazing on our wedding day! Erin was super accommodating and really listened to my requests - I'd asked for tons of detail shots and while I was getting ready, I could see her scurrying around the room and hearing clicking noises - I can't wait to see what she captured. Her second shooters were also great - one of them, Carrie, was so nice and helpful, I felt comfortable with her even though we'd never met before.

We just saw our teasers and LOVED them - everyone is so impressed with them!! We are very eagerly awaiting the remainder of the pics!

I found Louis and Erin on PW and I'm so happy I did! We booked on the spot with Erin after meeting her and we just had our engagement session last month. They are phenomenal!!! Erin emailed me about a week later with the online gallery and John and I were ecstatic! They took hundreds of shots and we have so many that we LOVE! You can check out the pics in my bio. I just can't explain how happy I am that Erin and Louis will be a part of our wedding! I'll update with even more pics after the wedding :) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

I booked Erin and Louis for our wedding last year and I am so excited to have them take our pictures for our engagement and wedding. Its coming up soon! I looked through tons of photographer websites online and their pictures were exactly what I wanted. Crisp, colorful, artistic and lots of attention to details. They also have great personalities which is important since they are going to follow us around all day! I will update you when I get my photos!

Update: 5/14/09- My engagement photos are beautiful and Louis is great about accepting feedback so your wedding pictures will be just what you want.

Update: 6/10/2009- I saw a sneak peek of my wedding photos on the Palos blog and they are exactly what I would have wanted. Beautiful!

We could not be more unhappy with our engagement photos and our wedding photos. We are devastated. I see all the good reviews and I don't know if they just had really bad days both times (the engagement photos - and wedding day??). I could not be more devastated with our wedding pics. We disliked our engagement pictures, but were hoping that our wedding pictures would turn out better - as Erin was not there for our Engagement pics just Louis and we spoke to them specifically about what shots we were looking for on the day of our Wedding.

We originally found them and saw their portfolio and website and thought their pictures were amazing - really beautiful. But I'm guessing that out of thousands of wedding photos you could find a few amazing ones to put on your website. Out of over 1200 pictures taken at our wedding, I can honestly say there are maybe 5 that are nice. The lighting was bad in most shots, the placement of people, the angle, etc. It looked as though they took all the photos in a huge rush and did not know what they were doing. In fact almost everyone that looks at our photos says just that. In fact, they were so disliked, no one ordered any pictures - not even our parents. :(

The shots on their website and blog are gorgeous, very 3 dimensional, colorful, depth, great composition, creative. The pictures we ended up with were overall thoughtless, 2 dimensional, bad composition, bad lighting.

I had to fill out a list of pictures that were important to be taken by them prior to the wedding. They did not take the 2 most important that i emphasized, even that day. There are no shots of the groomsman and myself or the ladies and the groom. They didn't line anyone up or place them correctly. The shots of the guys look like they are standing on a dirt trail just hanging out (although they don't look candid). Everyone has commented about how poor the shots are.

They also never took the time to fix my dress, veil, or anything in any shot. There are some shots that could have been okay but my dress is call crumpled up underneith me and my veil is all balled up due to wind .. when the shot they were taking was OF the dress. They have a shot of my necklace close up and didn't even bother to straighten it (the little dangly part at the bottom is off to the side).

They took lots of shots of the set up of the wedding but none once it was set up so we have lots of shots of flowers half put together, tables half set, candles not lit, but not one single shot of a table or reception room completely set up and candles lit, etc.

Another thing that baffled me, they couldn't fix the problems on the pictures before they sent them to us... (the ones that came with the package). My husband knows photoshop well and he had to take Louis out of one photo and recrop it, fix the lighting in it .. they asked if he could crop it to fit the photo size and re send it to them to be printed. I could NOT believe they were not capable of fixing their photo errors and we had to do it !!!!

I see many people are happy - and i'm so glad for them because it is so devastating to have your wedding photos ruined. Its not like you can go back and do it over again. For those of you that are happy - please enjoy them. I cannot tell you how sad we are.

If you do hire Palos Studios - i say see how you like your engagment pictures, if you do not like them DO NOT use them for your wedding, you will regret it!

I cannot say enough about how unhappy we are about how our pictures turned out...

If you would like to see any of our photos as an example I would be happy to send them to you.

My experience with Palos Studio was AMAZING.

As a marketing executive I look at images/pictures all day long for advertisements, I've worked on many photo shoots with dozens and dozens of photographers. I reviewed at least 10 other wedding photographers and their portfolios before deciding on Palos Studio. One photographer I was really interested in was Amy Squires...if you don't know who she is you obviously haven't been doing your wedding photography research! She is in every bridal magazine! She is an expertise in her field and happened to be booked our wedding day, but that was ok because she was a lot $$$$ (well worth it though if you can) She referred me to Palos Studio...we made an appointment and booked them about a week later!

We met with Erin (Palos) at their studio. The meeting went well, Erin is super cute but very soft spoken...which scared me a little because I wanted her to be very vocal and direct when shooting our pictures (if your gut is hanging out or your bra is showing you're gonna want to know!)but don't let her sweet little voice fool you because when she has a camera in her hand she really comes out of her shell!

Erin took our engagement photos, my husband (who hates taking any type of picture) and I actually had a really fun time! Erin spent so much time making sure she got the perfect shot, she would even show us some of the pictures after she shot them, she made us feel very comfortable and when we got the engagement pictures back I was so excited...I'm a pretty critical person when it comes to images (it's my job) and I was floored!

On our wedding day Erin and Louis showed up early...that was a huge relief because everything else was running late...including me! When I was finally ready they literally had 15 minutes to take pictures of me, me with my bridesmaids and me and my parents...and they did it! They actually were the ones calming me down...and when I started bauling my eyes out when I saw my dad Louis caught some really touching moments and then tried to make me laugh and handed me a napkin because we only had a few minutes left and my makeup was going to run everywhere!

At the wedding Erin and Louis didn't miss a single shot...I have SOOO MANY great pictures...my wedding album is 70 pages long! Every single detail was captured and trust me that is important for the bride and the groom because you get caught up that you miss out on so many things and the wedding goes by so fast.

When Erin and Louis posted some of our shots on their blogs the phone calls and emails started coming in...everyone LOVED them! I have friends and family who will definitely be using them and you can be sure when we have our first baby Erin will be shooting the first photo session! She does baby photos too!!!

Thanks Erin and Louis you guys did an amazing job!!!

The Palos did our engagement pictures, and were our wedding photographers and also set up a photobooth at our wedding :) They are simply AMAZING!! We are so glad we went with them :) They are so fun to be around, and you can tell they truly have a passion for what they do. They are so good at making people feel comfy in front of the camera-- my husband hates having his picture taken but had a great time hanging out and getting pics snapped of him both at our e-session and on our wedding day. They also made the photobooth at our wedding so fun and so cool. Our guests loved it!!! When we saw all our wedding pics we were blown away!! There are are SOOO many stunning ones-- maybe too many LOL. It was really hard to narrow down pics for our album b/c we literally loved them all. :) We could not be happier with our choice in photographers. The Palos truly have everything you could want in a wedding photography team: fun personalities, great customer service, passion for what they do, and raw talent! We really can't recommend them enough to other brides!!

Having Louis and Erin a part of our wedding day was the best decision we made. I have received several compliments about our wedding photos. Some have said, “Wow, that belongs in a magazine.” And I agree. I hate to brag but I’m so ecstatic about our photos that I just love sharing them with others and referring couples to them. They are both easy to work with, listened to our needs and provided us with such an amazing product - - something we will have for generations to come. Palos Studio was worth every penny we spent!

I think I should start off by saying that I had originally booked a different photographer 1 year before our wedding. He turned out to be unprofessional, hard to get a hold of, boring, and with an outdated sense of creativity. Due to these things, we opted to go ahead and cancel his services and lose out on our deposit of $800. Needless to say, since the day that we were able to book Louis & Erin Palos, we never regretted losing out on that money because the quality of their work, and the pleasantness of being able to work with a husband and wife team that love their jobs as much as these two do...has been more than worth it.

I honestly cannot even think of nice enough things to say about them to do their fun and creative personalities justice. Their work is so fresh and classic at the same time-- I really do think that they are the best photographers out there! They were always great with communication, and made us always feel so comfortable and natural being in front of a camera. We saw all of our pictures from the wedding just a couple weeks ago and couldn't be happier. I highly recommend them to anyone!

...and one last thing-- Erin also does baby portraits! You can guarantee that I'll be calling her as soon as we have kids! :)

We knew once we stepped into their office that Palos Studio was the photographer for us. Erin & Louis take beautiful, thoughtful pictures in a clean, modern and colorful style. We worked mostly with Erin, who was so great to work with.. very attentive to us with every question we asked and amazing the day of the wedding. She even put in extra hours to make the day perfect and our pictures complete. The whole process has been so easy and nice and we are blown away with all of our pictures and especially with our album - it's just beautiful. All of our friends already want to use them for their weddings. :) Thanks Erin & Louis for capturing our day in a beautiful light.

We were impressed with Louis' work from when we first saw some samples online. When we got to meet him, we were further impressed by his professionalism, talent, and obvious enjoyment of what he does. We knew we had found a great photographer, and our pictures proved it. Louis and Erin even shot an amazing engagement session at Disneyland with us. Many of our guests have visited Louis' website and commented on his great work at the wedding and asked us how we were able to find such an awesome photographer.

We knew the first time that we saw the Palos Studio blog that we wanted them to be our photographers. They did a great job on our engagement and wedding photos. Everyone who has seen them has nothing but great things to say about them. We highly recommend them to anybody getting married. They both made us feel so comfortable through out the whole process and did an amazing job.

Louis and Erin are nothing short of amazing. My husband and I researched for weeks to find a photographer we loved and were willing to pay well because to us it was one of the most important things. After the Wedding, that's all you have, right? Our initial meeting with Erin was great, she answered all of our questions and gave us comfort right of the bat because she was knowledgable, timely and her pictures were phenomenal, not to mention her pricing was great!

We had an excellent engagement shoot experience and the pictures turned out beautiful...we were sure at this point we truly got what we paid for! My biography picture is one of theirs actually, and it was shot by Erin.

So the Wedding was 2 months ago, and again Erin & Louis came through for us, stayed all night and really captured the Wedding and literally everyone there. When we got to see all 1200+ pictures from our special day we was so ecstatic that we chose them and recommend them to everyone we know for Wedding & Baby photos (Erin does that too!) They were by far the best vendor we had...

Louis didn't photograph our wedding, but he did my friend's. Wow, what a talented duo for such little experience. My friend's photos were fab! Well-composed and just so darling. This was about half a year ago, so I don't know if their prices have shot up. Him and his wife were an absolute steal for the product of work

Louis and Erin were AMAZING., They took great pictures of us despite us being inexperienced in front of a camera. All of our pictures were in the best lighting, were very crisp and were moments I would have missed without Louis!! Louis has a very unobtrusive style of photography and he catches the smallest details that end up meaning the most after the day flies by so quickly! Louis absolutely was everything we could have possibly wanted!!

Louis & Erin Palos are The best photographers out there. We looked at quite a few photographers before going to Louis Palos; we were not very convinced by any of them, but when we saw Louis and Erin's work, we knew right away they were the right ones. It was like meeting my wife, there was chemestry right away. They are so nice and professional, and their work... What can I say about their work?! It is AMAZING!!!! it's worth two or three times more than what you pay for. The have the talent of capturing the perfect moment at the perfect time, they make you feel very comfortable; they guide you thru the sessions with patience and fun! They really dedicate their 200% to do the best of their work; they always go the extra mile, which is imperative to acheive excellence...
We definately recomend them to any body for their special ocassion.
They are Excellent!!!
Thank you sooooo much Loius and Erin.
Best regards, Araceli and David.
P.S. Well see you when we have kids!

The Palos are the absolute best! They are so talented and professional and all of our pictures came out stunning. We had so much fun working with them and they made us feel really comfortable in front of the camera. We still keep in touch to this day!

Erin & Louis are the best! So great to work with & their work is impecable! The photos from Lisa & John's wedding turned out amazing - can't wait to work with you again!

Palos Studio does outstanding work! They did a wonderful job of capturing a cute couple who married at the Japanese Garden. They'll definitely get you some beautiful heartfelt photos. Great work!

It’s rare for someone who is involved with this stuff everyday to truely be blown away, but that’s exactly what their pictures do. I’m standing right next to them while they take the photos and I am still amazed at the imagery. Very few photographers improve my work and my angles but Louis and Erin definitely do. They are amazing to work with.
-Robert