7 reviews about Top Gun Photography

verified email - 07 Jul 2011

What a rude and arrogant man!!
I was working as a hair and make up artist on a wedding he was shooting.
He tore strips off me in front of the bridal party that I was running late ( No I wasn't - I was right on schedule!!)
I have never had this attitude from any other photographer in the 11 years I have been doing this for.

I saw some of the images of my beautiful bride after wards and the silly poses and the dreadful angles that he shot her from made her look terrible.
His post editing work was non existent!!

She was really disappointed in the work he did
She looked beautiful and he could not capture that in any of the images I saw.

verified email - 21 Oct 2009

Very rude photographer. Seemed very irritable on the day, and thought that making rude comments about our guests would draw a smile--problem was, he was really insulting! Impatient and really jacked off that in the end we purchased just the basic package because we thought we could do a better job putting an album together--we could and we did. Photographer seemed pleasant at the initial meeting but turned into a monster on our wedding day. Would have paid much more for a photographer with a better personality.

Approximate cost: $1200

jerrodk 05 Aug 2010

Sorry to hear you also went through the same others and also ourselves, and your comments are a repeat of our dealings with this company / person

verified email - 11 Aug 2009

The photographer was appallingly rude to our guests and upset several members of the bridal party. Comments such as 'you're doing a terrible job as a bridesmaid' and 'that guy has a good head for radio' were frequent. The photos we were shown at the start in the example albums are exactly what you get. That is to say, you will be forced to reenact every pose without variation whether you like them or not or feel uncomfortable. Lack of creativity and customer service. He also fought with us over what had been purchased and tried to provide us with a different, lesser, deal to that which we signed up for. Took an extra roll of film on the day without asking, or advising us, and then became very angry when we refused to pay for it.

pbrew 03 Dec 2009

He is currently trying to charge us 200 dollars for printing an album 'of shots' that we didn't ask for and are refusing to pay for! he says he printed them as a favour and that we 'must' buy them! he is also charging us to buy the dvd of all our shots and renegged on giving us the leather box for our shots beacuse he got them printed in the 'wrong' size! sad that we both had this issue with this company.

jerrodk 05 Aug 2010

adding to Punnky's comments, he trys to put the hard sell on after the day, wanting you to buy more / pay more for what is an average services

verified email - 01 Jun 2009

We used Top Gun for our wedding an would highly recommend them.

Wonderful photos, they are really beautiful. Fantastic service and exceptional value for money. Our photographer was lovely and very professional the whole time, even when we were painful!

I was a little hesitant at first since they were so cheap, but this isn't a case of you get what you pay for. They are a top quality company with an excellent product, for a fantastic price.

Approximate cost: $1495.00

Anonymous
verified email - 10 Mar 2009

ABSOLUTELY UTTERLY disappointed, my friend with an SLR actually honestly took better photos. They are cheap but we would rather pay $4000 for someone else we knew that's the quality we were as going to get.... Shown us an album before we commit but final album is TOTALLY different and size of the album is a LOT smaller~!

Approximate cost: $1500

pbrew 03 Dec 2009

we too are curently fighting over the album size...and have one missing album that was promised and paid for but now noone from that company has any recollection of that! feel your untter disappointment - we feel the same. and as the time draws near to pick photos for the final i dread talking to this mob again...

verified email - 11 Jun 2008

Absolutely fantastic service - Barry kept all my guests happy, laughing & smiling throughout the capturing of my fantastic wedding day. We found the whole business very professional, welcoming, helpful, joyful & value for money definitely. Most photographers are so expensive but top gun is well worth checking out their prices & service.

Approximate cost: $1600 - upwards

verified email - 30 Jan 2008

We used these guys for our wedding, and we were thrilled with the results. We started off with an appointment with Barry, the head photographer, who asked about the wedding, and admitted that he wouldn't be the best photographer for us, as he worked with more classical style and we needed something different. So he showed us examples of his other photographers work, and we were able to choose one we thought did the type of shots we would like.

We were very impressed with our photographer (Justin). He was happy to listen to what we wanted and took some interesting shots that I don't think other photographers would have thought of. We even got him to go around and photograph the guests, so we got some excellent casual individual photos to give as gifts and include in our album as memories of the day.

Best of all is that this is one of the cheapest wedding photographers we found (about $500 for memory - 4 years ago) - That was for a couple of rolls of film's worth of pics (no album), and they give you the negatives! So you can get reprints of the photos yourself. We bought a fancy photo album and made up our own wedding album including some shots relatives took that we liked, and we were able to take reprints of our favourite shots and make albums for our parents. So we found them to be excellent!

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