Claire Xu Photography

Very creative photographer, has great ideas for wedding photo shoot. Love all the pictures!

Claire did an amazing job with our wedding. Her work is artistic and her products are beautiful. She is very responsive via email which was extremely important for me during the planning stage of the wedding and the waiting period after the wedding. She was very patient and flexible throughout the entire process and on the wedding day itself.
My, then, fiancée and I first met her at her house/​office in order to peruse her work and we were very impressed. After discussing our photographer choices, we decided to go with Claire because she just had the best products hands down. We were supposed to meet her in Sherman Oaks (the approximate halfway point between my place and her place) to sign the contract, but she got caught up in another shoot with no cellphone service, so she wasn’t able to contact us until about fifteen minutes after our scheduled meeting. She contacted me through text that night and apologized for cancelling the appointment on such short notice, and she scheduled a time on the next day to come all the way over to my place to make up for it.
Claire has an unteachable knack for catching certain moments, which was apparent in how she photographed our first dance. Because we choreographed our own first dance (and Claire’s first time seeing the dance was in real time), I was afraid she would not get certain parts of the routine. To my astonishment, she snapped a photo of every single pose/​move we were hoping she would get with her top-​notch equipment. She captured so many wonderful pictures throughout our wedding day, so it was extremely difficult to choose from the array of photos she provided us. To our surprise, she did not make us choose and she generously provided us all the lightly retouched photos (on a CD by mail) even though it exceeded the amount we had agreed upon. Although it took a while to receive our detailed, retouched photos and the final album due to personal reasons, she did make it up to us by mailing five free, gorgeous 8.5×11 printouts (all of which are on display at our place). Overall, her work is incredible and if we could do it all over again, Claire would be at the top of our list of vendors.

Claire was the photographer for our pre-​wedding photos. She is very professional and sincere to her clients. She took our opinions very seriously, discussed with us many times to make sure what kind of photo we wanted, and also provided useful suggestions. She was very responsible through the whole process, from visiting photo shoot locations, the shooting to final photo retouchment, always with nice attitude. Highly recommended!

Claire is a professional photographer with many talents. She was hired to shoot our products for our online business. She showed responsibility and patience, and provided excellent and flattering photos which really increased our sales. Her service is highly recommended.

This girl is seriously talented. Has an eye for beauty. Artsy photos. Easy to get along with. Great Photoshop skills. Client is super happy. Worth the price.