My parents are going to be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, and they decided to take my siblings and our families to Hawaii with them this summer to celebrate. Woo-hoo! We'll be spending 6 nights on Maui (near Kihei), 6 nights on Oahu (Marriott Ko Olina), and then my immediate family will be tacking on 3 additional nights at Aulani.
My siblings and I decided we would like to hire a photographer to come and do family pictures with all of us as a gift to my parents. As I've been researching this, I've been having difficulty coming up with a good photographer who shoots groups as large as ours (15 people) for a reasonable price (1 to 2 hours for $800 to $1100 or so) who also allows us access/rights to the digital copies of the photos. My SIL would like to do these photos on Maui at the beginning of our trip so we don't have sunburns in the photos and because we have less must-do activities on Maui than Oahu.
I've got three thoughts floating around in my head that I would love advice about:
1) We could hire a local photographer directly. I've been looking on TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google. There seems to be a lot more information about wedding photography rather than large group family shots. Also, trying to find out pricing and availability of the digital photos isn't always easy. I'm looking for a photographer that does a good job of balancing focusing on the people and focusing on the beauty of Hawaii. Has anyone hired a photographer on Maui that they would recommend? I would love some suggestions! Suggestions for Oahu would be appreciated, too. Thanks!
2) I've been looking into flytographer.com and wondered if anyone has used this service and has any thoughts/advice. Probably my biggest concern here would be that we aren't looking for a ton of candid shots. Some would be great, but we're more interested in making sure we get some good whole group shots so my parents can have a really nice family photo to hang on the wall. I would love any input you might have to share about this service even if you used it somewhere other than Hawaii.
3) This may just be a crazy idea, but my husband and I were wondering about using PhotoPass at Aulani to take care of this group photo. Since our whole group will be staying next door at the Marriott Ko Olina, would it be possible to walk over to Aulani one evening and get pictures taken there? Do you have to stay at Aulani to use the service? Also, since my immediate family will be staying there later on, could we purchase PP and use it early before our reservation begins? We love PhotoPass+ at DL and have used PP at WDW several times, but I can't quite wrap my head around the PP process at Aulani. Thoughts?
Thanks in advance for anyone who takes time to share! Mahalo!!
My siblings and I decided we would like to hire a photographer to come and do family pictures with all of us as a gift to my parents. As I've been researching this, I've been having difficulty coming up with a good photographer who shoots groups as large as ours (15 people) for a reasonable price (1 to 2 hours for $800 to $1100 or so) who also allows us access/rights to the digital copies of the photos. My SIL would like to do these photos on Maui at the beginning of our trip so we don't have sunburns in the photos and because we have less must-do activities on Maui than Oahu.
I've got three thoughts floating around in my head that I would love advice about:
1) We could hire a local photographer directly. I've been looking on TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google. There seems to be a lot more information about wedding photography rather than large group family shots. Also, trying to find out pricing and availability of the digital photos isn't always easy. I'm looking for a photographer that does a good job of balancing focusing on the people and focusing on the beauty of Hawaii. Has anyone hired a photographer on Maui that they would recommend? I would love some suggestions! Suggestions for Oahu would be appreciated, too. Thanks!
2) I've been looking into flytographer.com and wondered if anyone has used this service and has any thoughts/advice. Probably my biggest concern here would be that we aren't looking for a ton of candid shots. Some would be great, but we're more interested in making sure we get some good whole group shots so my parents can have a really nice family photo to hang on the wall. I would love any input you might have to share about this service even if you used it somewhere other than Hawaii.
3) This may just be a crazy idea, but my husband and I were wondering about using PhotoPass at Aulani to take care of this group photo. Since our whole group will be staying next door at the Marriott Ko Olina, would it be possible to walk over to Aulani one evening and get pictures taken there? Do you have to stay at Aulani to use the service? Also, since my immediate family will be staying there later on, could we purchase PP and use it early before our reservation begins? We love PhotoPass+ at DL and have used PP at WDW several times, but I can't quite wrap my head around the PP process at Aulani. Thoughts?
Thanks in advance for anyone who takes time to share! Mahalo!!
