Ivory Season Photography Reviews
Reviews
4.8 out of 5 rating
4.8 out of 5 rating
17 Reviews
96% recommend it
Awards
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Lena P. Sent on 04/30/2021
Your search is over! You've found your photographer!
Our experience with Ivory Season Photography was outstanding! Scott went above and beyond in every way possible from coaching us through postures, extending the length of the shoot and sharing the photos in no time! Not only did we get beautiful photos that we, our family & friends are still obsessing over but the experience filled the day we adventure, laughter and love! I can go on and on about how much we enjoyed our time with Scott, his kindness and professionalism and hope you have the opportunity to experience it yourself!! Thank you for everything Scott! -
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Nee-Sa L. Sent on 07/15/2022
The Best Engagement Photos Ever
Working with Scott was amazing. I had a pretty specific idea of what I wanted for engagement photos, and after scouring Instagram, knew Scott was our man. His communication was prompt, and the day of the shoot was so effortless. My fiancé and I are both a little awkward in front of the camera but he was super professional and made us feel at ease. As for the photos - they completely exceeded my wildest dreams. We ended up with the best engagement photos I’ve ever seen, even better than all the inspo we sent back and forth. I couldn’t be happier with them and am so pleased to have these for the rest of our lives! I can’t recommend him enough - the work speaks for itself. If you’re looking for truly editorial, unique art that will stand out from the crowd - you need Scott. -
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Vi Nguyen Sent on 04/29/2022Not Just a Photo, it's Art.
Where do I begin... Scott is the most professional, sweet, down to earth, and talented photographer.
Photos and videos mean everything to me. Throughout my life I have learned that sometimes that is all you have left of a person or your favorite memories. It was so important to me to work with a photographer who truly understood that need and would do it beautifully.
I had followed Ivory Season Photography on social media for years knowing that one day I would want him to shoot my engagement, my engagement shoot, my wedding, and to be honest... any huge life event that I experience from here on out.
His work makes it feel more than a picture, it becomes a piece of art. The effort and time he takes to assure he gets the right shot and that his editing is perfect does reflect in the end gallery you receive back. If you want something that is different than your mainstream instagram feed photographers with the same presets, do yourself a favor and work with Ivory Season. You'll get your pictures back and feel like you should be the cover of BRIDE magazine.
But aside from his obvious talent of photography, he is a great person. He made sure throughout my wedding day that I was okay, that my family was okay, and that everything was perfect for me and my husband. He goes above and beyond being a photographer. Scott has become a great friend to me and I will never regret telling him years in advance that he has to be the one shooting my wedding (even before meeting him). I am so thankful for everything that he's done for me and can't wait to continue to work with him for the rest of my life! -
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Volnei Sent on 07/18/2021
Very nice, super recommend him
Very good photographer, so nice working with him! -
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Volnei Sent on 07/18/2021
Very nice, super recommend him
Very good photographer, so nice working with him! -
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Samantha B. Sent on 02/26/2020Great Experience!
My fiancé and I loved working with Scott! He was very flexible and easy to work with. He was extremely creative and adapted to what we wanted/liked but also put his own flare on it. We loved all of our photos!!!! -
Marjan Sent on 11/19/2019
Talented photographer
I should say Scott made our day in our engagement party. He is super patient and try to calm you down. Once we met him, he turned to our friend and that’s why we enjoyed our photography session a lot. He valued our ideas and did his best to shoot what we wanted. highly recommend him if you want a talented and friendly photographer. -
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Myranda E. Sent on 02/04/2019
Incredible
I had never had my photos taken before and I was extremely nervous upon arriving. He was punctual and brought all of his own equipment. Scott kept me laughing throughout the entire shoot, but somehow managed to capture a side of myself I had never seen before. I left the photo shoot feeling beautiful and confident. His creative eye produces an aesthetic that will leave any client speechless. I will continue to recommend him to anyone who wants professional photos taken, for any occasion. -
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Jake G. Sent on 02/02/2019Extremely happy with our product!
Scott is very flexible and easy to work with, had so much fun on our wedding day! He has an amazing personality and made us feel comofortable and relaxed throughout the entire day! Very happy with our final product and custom album! -
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Valerie A. Sent on 09/25/2020Our terrible experience with Scott on our wedding day
I almost never leave a review unless someone’s work went above and beyond OR our experience was completely awful. You know when people say "I wish I could give less than 1 Star"...yep it’s one of those and hopefully, you will see this and choose a different photographer who is way more professional and provides the services you are looking for! Working with this photographer for a one on one shoot was OK. But working with him for our wedding was a horrible experience, we think he lacks experience and focus. We originally did a couples shoot and really liked his 1-on-1 work and our 2 other couples friends liked him too and I referred them to him for their weddings as well, that were coming up in the year after we booked him for our wedding. Scott offered us a $50 referral credit for each referral, sounds OK right? I was just going to use it towards some service of his and do another shoot with him, well fast forward to our wedding and he never sent us our correct finalized contract, we asked him numerous times when we saw him for our engagement photo shoot. He told us he just copied one he found on the internet and he had to find it to resend it to us. We continued to give him the benefit of the doubt and maybe this is where we should have realized the red flags and backed out. On our wedding day, we expected him to catch the super important moments, and unfortunately, we feel that he has failed us. I have received very minimal photos with my mother and grandmother even though Scott asked us for a list of photos we wanted to be taken and he made claims he would take them but on the wedding day, he did not follow any of that list. His hired second photographer Faye did a great job and we thought she had the experience that was needed for a wedding. We ended up hiring a second photographer to do a second-day shoot to get some more photos after we got back from our honeymoon. Then we were supposed to see Scott at the second couples wedding August 2020, he was supposed to give us the 2, $50 referral credits he even messaged me about it, so total $100, (EDIT: he claims to the knot that he gives clients $100 a piece not $50 so therefore we are owed $50 more since he only gave us $50 for the one, the second couple cancelled on him so we never got a chance to see him in person to discuss this.) for the 2 weddings he got from us referring to him which I honestly didn’t care much about but he brought it up and he said he only owed us 1 credit for this upcoming wedding because he had to cancel on the backyard wedding. I was immediately confused because the wedding he claims never happened, already did this year which included my cousin and my family attending it, and we saw him in attendance. I confirmed with him by sending him a photo from the wedding, asking if this was his work. He then continued to say he couldn’t make it but then flipped and said he was there as a guest and the food was good and he was there as Santa’s little helper?!? Like what? He was talking bad about our friends as clients and our other couple friends behind their back and that he only took their pictures because they are an easy couple but they are bad people. Who knows what he said about us? We do not recommend this photographer, especially when there are so many other great ones in the WNY area.Ivory Season Photography's reply:
So let me respond to your initial review before it was re-edited instead of this edited one since I feel like it lacks a lot of information for the audience that you would like to cultivate.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I almost never leave a review unless someone’s work went above and beyond or our experience was completely awful. You know when people say I wish I could give less than 1 Star...yep it’s one of those and hopefully you will see this and find someone who is way more professional! Working with this photographer for a one on one shoot was OK. But working with him for our wedding was the absolute worst, he lacks experience and focus. We originally did a couples shoot and really liked his 1on1 work and our 2 other couples friends liked him too and I referred them to him for their weddings as well that were coming up after we booked him for our wedding. Scott offered a $50 referral credit for each referral, sounds OK right I was just going to use it towards some service and do another shoot with him, well fwd to our wedding and he never sent us our correct Finalized contract (which he claimed he just copied from the Internet and pasted into word) and at our wedding reception claimed we owed him $400 more ON MY WEDDING DAY LOL. We were told by multiple family members he was constantly texting on his phone, drinking alcohol and missing super important moments which makes sense after seeing his final result. His hired second photographer Faye did an amazing job and you could tell she had the experience that was needed. When we met before our wedding we gave him a list of all the photos we wanted with family, i.e. bride with mom and grandma...etc. after we received our photos back, there were a whole bunch of random ones of guests and only a select few with my family and only 1 of my grandma crying. We ended up hiring a second photographer to do a second-day shoot to get some more photos after we got back from our honeymoon. As for our friends, due to the pandemic, they ended up having a backyard wedding that Scott photographed and we were told he fell asleep multiple times as well as got drunk and didn’t take a large majority of photos from the list he requested that the couple gave them. (Sounds familiar?) then we were supposed to see Scott at second couples wedding Aug 2020, he was supposed to give us the 2 $50 referral credits total $100, for the 2 weddings he got from us referring him which I honestly didn’t care much about but he brought it up and he said he only owed us 1 credit for this upcoming wedding because he had to cancel on the backyard wedding. I was immediately confused as I knew he lied because the wedding he already did this year included my cousin and my family attending it. I confirmed with him by sending him a photo of the wedding that she sent me, asking if this was his work. He then continued to say he couldn’t make it but then flipped and said he was there as a guest and the food was good and he was there as Santa’s little helper?!? Like what? Then my friend calls me and said Scott tried to call her just now and asked her to lie to me (she’s someone I’ve been friends with since we were 5) if I ask if he cancelled on their wedding and continued to lie. My friend also told me he was talking bad about us as clients and our other couple friends behind their back and that he only took their pictures because they are an easy couple but they are bad people. We were also informed by our couple friends who married this august that when Scott went up to do their photoshoot he stole some things from their family home after being invited in for a dinner. Super unprofessional. This couple cancelled on them this Aug due to everything." - Valerie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Prior to your wedding day, I had offered you a chance to get some credits per referral ($100 per referral) with the agreement that only once the couple's wedding is thoroughly completed which means, they must go through the entire wedding process with me from saving the date to receiving their photos. Now on the day of, I had requested to be pay with a certain amount agreed to and checked to see that it was missing about $200.00 from what we had agreed to, and your reason was that you referred me to two of your friends whose wedding was not even completed yet. I later talked to Vincent later that night before departing that the amount we agreed on was incoherent and would like to find a solution. Yet somehow he relayed it back to you as missing $400.00, which I can understand that the music can be a bit loud during the dancing so he might not hear me correctly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. I can't consume alcohol due to the allergic reaction I get from it, it's called the Asian Flush, look it up. And if I do, it's because someone pressured me to and I spit it out immediately. Now if I did consume alcohol, you might as well call the ambulance because only them will I be unfit to shoot your wedding. When I am on my phone, you can guarantee that I am looking at the itinerary, checking poses, reading emails, and making sure everything is fine at home. I arrive 30 mins early to your house and left 30 mins after my scheduled time to make sure that I didn't miss anything, and during the wedding, I checked my itinerary multiple times to make sure everything was going to plan, so let me know which part I missed out unless you mean the part where someone was picking their nose was more important to capture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. It's hard to say that I had missed any moments on your wedding day because I had taken around 4000 raw images and given you 700+ in edits. Yet you still weren't satisfied that there was not enough of your parents when there was a time for family portraits. So you hired another photographer to do your family portraits and a few more portraits of the two of you again. Your day was packed with little details and events that were so hard to miss even if I tried, and my main focus is you and everything else is secondary, this is a common rule for wedding photography. And if anything, I would have relayed to my second photographer to make sure she would take care of that for me. An average photographer would only give their clients roughly around 300-500 edited. So please be grateful next time when you receive your images within 2.5 weeks after your wedding day rather than 2 months period, on top of 4 other weddings I have to shoot within that month. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. You can spread whatever theories you have about my company or critique me for not photoshopping your pictures just to make it look ideal. But don't ever accuse me of stealing anything from someone's house. Let alone call me a coward on social media for not responding to your narcissism all while you blocked me from everything and won't reply to my text. If you would like to speak with me, let sit down six feet distance face to face and have a chat. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. The only thing I do believe to be true is the fact that I lied to you about your friend's wedding. Because I knew once I would have said that you would ask for the credit even though I am not finished with her wedding portrait segment of the day. You are lucky to even be receiving $50 in credits since her wedding is not even fully completed so don't complain, also it is entirely up to you to remember my referral program amount since this was binding through speech. This whole thing revolves around the referral credit in my opinion because oddly, none of this issue was ever brought up for a whole year after your wedding and everything since this was civil and no complaint was ever heard. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’ll be more than happy to share everyone the link to your wedding gallery and see their opinions on what’s lacking for your wedding day. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Warmest regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ivory Season Photography
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