Beach Photography Hilton Head

I can’t say enough great things about Marshall! My family and I planned a brief destination Christmas in Hilton Head. We’ve talked for years about doing family photos, but just never did. This year I figured I’d pull the trigger while we were on our trip. I contacted Marshall and the rest is history! As I’m sure most of you know, dealing with family and planning/​scheduling for everyone to be in the same place at the same time can be quite challenging. Marshall was so easy going, flexible, and ultimately able to accommodate our needs to make this family photo thing happen! During our shoot he was super friendly and incredibly knowledgable about the area. Marshall knew just what to do in order to get some really great shots and maximize his time with us. And his prices were beyond reasonable! Overall, it was a great experience and one that I would highly recommend to all!

I’m typically the family photographer but traveled without my camera and tripod this trip so we needed extra hands. Marshall did all the point and shoot work — exactly what we needed. Very casual and inexpensive as compared to our prior family vacation group photos. For an additional investment, he can and will edit shots if you need that.
We’ll see how the photos look on the disc in about a week. Given the number of snaps he made — we’re confident there will be some keepers.
Friendly. Efficient. EASY!
Thanks Marshall.

Definitely agree with the reviewers that noted Marshall as being very flexible and good with the little kids. After reviewing several photographers, we chose Marshall to shoot our 2015 family pictures during our Hilton Head Beach vacation. We had an unruly 2 yr old who had chosen to skip his nap on this particular day, so I was not expecting very good results. Much to my surprise, Marshall showed up with bubbles (something I had never thought of — but will forever take with me on photo shoots from here on out!) and let my son know that he could have them if he smiled big and was a good boy during pictures. Presto! With that promise — and a few bubble blowing breaks in between — we had a very smiley, very cooperative 2 year old. Yay!
Our pictures turned out relatively good. I’ve had better and I’ve had worse. With the Unilocal deal, I feel like we got a decent product for our money (although, to be fair, I don’t think I’d be nearly as happy if we had paid full price.)
My only «complaint» and lack of 5-​star rating stems from the lack of professionalism in the product as a whole. Marshall provided us with every photo he took of my family, on a CD. This is great & we certainly appreciate having such a wide selection of pictures. Unfortunately, a lot of them are simply not good (blurry, too dark, even some with heads cut off!) I understand that obviously, not every picture taken is going to be a good one, but I’m not sure it was necessary to include the ones that were obviously unusable. It’s not a big deal, as we have others we can use, but it was disappointing to see them all on CD and realize which poses we didn’t get a single good one of. It was also somewhat of a pain to riffle through all the non-​usable ones and find ones that we wanted to actually make prints of. (our CD has almost 200 pictures on it — but only 15 that I will actually make prints of!!) Additionally, the package deal says that we get «20 edited prints» but it’s impossible to tell which, if any, were actually edited. I was disappointed by that, mostly because I don’t think that any were truly edited. Lastly, it appears that the pictures were literally copied from his camera to the disk and then dropped in the mail, given that almost all of the pictures were shot horizontally and were not turned prior to burning on the CD. Given that the CD is not editible, we had to view all of our pictures sideways, which was super annoying (and also supports my theory that not a single picture was edited, as promised.) Also, the CD was dropped in an evenlope and put in the mail. No label. No business card or note. Nothing. Just a plain CD in an envelope.
None the less. We got some good pictures to remind of us our family trip in 2015. And for $ 200 it was a lot less than many of the other (more professional?) Hilton Head photographers are charging.

Marshall was great. After having to postpone our session due to rain, he made sure to get us rescheduled before our vacation was over. I also appreciated him coming to the beach area where we were staying since we had two one year old children in our group. It made it so much more convenient. You can’t beat the package deals he offers as well as the convenience of viewing them online and not having to take away from precious vacation time.

Great photographer. We had eight kids, nine and under and couldn’t afford to mess around. Marshall got right down to business and was great with the kids. He even managed to take great pictures – WIN. We will definitely use every time we head to Hilton Head for vacation. Highly recommend!

Thanks to Marshall our family has beautiful photos to remember our time on the beach. He was professional and fun to work with. His prices are very reasonable. He even was willing to work with our dog. We will definitely use his photography services again.

Marshall was wonderful! We were visiting Hilton Head while on vacation with our two young daughters. We have 1 and 3 year old girls and all they wanted to do while we were taking photos on the beach was run into the ocean and play. Marshall was flexible, creative, and entertaining and found ways to engage our daughters and get them to take some beautiful photos. He also was flexible enough to work with us and provide us with different combinations of people in photos, etc… It’s so nice to not have to take studio photos of our children and to be able to have beautiful photos taken of them in such a beautiful setting. It made our trip all the more memorable!