Award-winning wedding photographer, exhibiting and published fine art photographer, polyglot world traveler, I want to find out your vision for your wedding. My pleasure in this business is in getting to know my clients. That's how I help you relax and bring out your beautiful natural self in front of my camera.
Sure, we do great posed photos, but the power of your wedding album or photo collection will come more from my capturing your spontaneous emotion in brief moments throughout the day.
Sure, we do great posed photos, but the power of your wedding album or photo collection will come more from my capturing your spontaneous emotion in brief moments throughout the day.
Services
Every wedding is a unique story-on different levels. For starters there's YOUR experience and then there's how your new spouse, family, and friends experience YOU. I already start telling your story at your reception when I download your prep, ceremony, and formal portrait photos and PROJECT them during the dinner.
Engagement sessions are meant to catch you having fun together in a setting that you love-a park by a lake, the New York skyline in Weehawkin, your favorite haunts in New York or your town, or my studio. You dress casually, and I capture you both spontaneously and posed. And don't worry about posing: it's meant to express your love, and we work on these together.
We have fun with family portraits. First we meet to talk about what to wear and where to have it. This also gives me a chance to meet everyone in the family and show interest in your children. We work together to create strong portraits, then I come to your house and PROJECT the edited results, and you make your selection.
A lifelong photographer, I opened my studio doors in 2006, when I realized that wedding photography could be artistically satisfying. Since then I've striven to give my clients the best in personal service and taken enormous pleasure in getting to know people from many different social, religious, national and ethnic backgrounds.
Reviews (6)
Stefanie Garguilo
Jul 25, 2019
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I won his service at a charity event and I will never use him again. He was supposed to report to my house at 10am. When I called him because he was late he said he was "in bed reading" and he forgot. He came an hour and a half later without the backdrop for my family pictures. The day he came to show us what he took...he forgot the wire needed to project the pictures and asked my husband to help him find a working wire. He tried to sell me several prints, which was to be expected, but what I did not expect was his astronomical prices. He said an 8×10 of one photo would be $375. No frame, just
Linda Rosenwald
Dec 19, 2018
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We hired Joel for my husband's 60th birthday party and could not be happier. His warm personality in dealing with our guests, his sense of professionalism, and attention to detail surpassed our expectations. He produced beautiful photographic memories for me and my husband along with our family and friends that we will always cherish. Absolutely recommend. Linda Rosenwald, Springfield, NJ
Nelida Valentin
Dec 20, 2014
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I had Joel capture our wedding photos and WOW!!! He truly captured some great candid photos of our family and of course of my husband and I. His attention to detail truly made working with him so much fun, especially when it came time to creating our wedding album. He took out the time to make sure it was created to truly capture the essence of our wedding and relationship.. It came out so beautiful...He is so sweet & really great to work with..
Rottweiller
Dec 07, 2014
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Robin Boyd
Oct 07, 2014
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I won a photo session with Joel Simpson Photography at a foundation auction. It was a wonderful experience. Joel was very flexible regarding appointments and this is not an easy task with the schedule of a working mother. Joel made us feel at ease. He was also great with our toddler (again no easy task). Joel took the time to know us and really captured the essence of our family. There was no pressured "sales" and he explained his products in a relaxed way. He was very patient during the decision making process. We are very please with the photos. I highly recommend Joel Simpson Photography,
Bill Galea
May 22, 2014
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Joel collaborated with us on a family portrait of our Mom with her four children. He met us at a location that was most convenient to our family. He was very professional and came to the photo shoot extremely well prepared. He took a lot of photographs along with offering his professional advice throughout the photo shoot.
Subsequently, we met with him again to view a completed slide show of the family photographs. We chose the photo that we liked best to be our official family portrait.
The final product came out beautifully. It was a lovely portrait which had a beautiful frame around it. It
Subsequently, we met with him again to view a completed slide show of the family photographs. We chose the photo that we liked best to be our official family portrait.
The final product came out beautifully. It was a lovely portrait which had a beautiful frame around it. It
