Frank Amodo Photography

I can not say enough good things about Frank! From the moment I contacted him for info he was responsive and very kind. My family and I were going to Oahu for vacation. My daughter and husband’s first time in Oahu. I wanted memories from our vacation. I was not disappointed in my choice. Frank was always prompt in answering my emails and questions I had. The location we shot at was absolutely stunning! Our pictures looked like we were placed on there from a green screen. I showed my friends and they could not believe the images. We were able to get pics during sunlight and sunset pics. I would use Frank again in a heartbeat. He is absolutely amazing and so friendly. He was great in giving us direction and got the most beautiful pic of my daughter and nephew. I just can’t choose which pic to put on canvas.
If you are looking for a photographer, look no further. I am so glad I found Frank. We will always remember the beautiful time we had in Oahu by looking at our gorgeous photos Frank took.

Frank is so ridiculously talented!
What I love most about him is how personable he is. From the day we had our Skype meet and greet, to the day of our wedding, he was truly so nice and really patient. I felt bad that we were running late but he was still so accommodating.
All along the way, he answered emails and texts promptly even though I know he was super busy.
I haven’t gotten our finals pictures yet, but I can’t wait to share them!

This review is WAY overdue! After we got married, my husband and I decided to do a «trash the dress» shoot exactly a month after our wedding. Frank is so easy-​going and personable– even those who are camera-​shy would feel at ease instantly. We told Frank we were down for anything so by the end of the photo shoot, my wedding dress, hair, veil, my husband’s suit… we were DRENCHED in sea water but the images Frank captured are all breathtaking. Frank truly has a natural talent for photography; the way he shoots, you wouldn’t even think he’s checking any angles or lighting. The depth and contrast he creates is really beautiful and not only do the people in his pictures look wonderful, he really pulls in the scenery to complete the piece as well.
My sister-​in-​law loved our pictures so much that she did a family shoot with Frank. He has three little kids so he is great with children as well.
My brother and his wife will be visiting Hawaii later this year and I plan on booking Frank for them. We couldn’t rave enough about his work and professionalism!

Jaw-​dropping photos. Frank is an artist with a camera. This is a review that is about 5 months over-​due and happy to say that once we got our wedding photos, we were floored! Frank takes some unique pictures and uses the environment and plays with lighting like no one has done before.
If you’re looking for the best photographer in Hawaii, you’ve found him!

If you are looking for a talented photographer who takes beautiful pictures and is a great person, Frank is the guy!
My husband and I found him in 2007 for our engagement pictures. He later did our wedding in 2008, maternity pictures in 2010, newborn pictures in 2012 and our family pictures in 2012 & in 2013.
We fell in love with his photography because of his unique way of capturing the moment. Our pictures always came out the way we wanted and more! Many of our friends have hired him to do their wedding pictures because they were very impressed with our engagement and wedding pictures. We will definitely have him take our family pictures every year!
We have known him for so long that we can call him a dear friend and part of our family! :)

Frank Amodo is amazing! We’ve used Frank for 2 separate occasions. Once was for our wedding in Ko Olina on May 2013 and then again on May 2014 for our wedding anniversary photos in the North Shore.
It was a pleasure working with Frank on both occasions. He makes you feel super relax and has some amazing ideas for photos shoots. Our photos turned out amazing on both occasions. He’s also very prompt at answering emails or phone calls. That was very important to us since we are from San Francisco. I would highly recommend Frank to any of my friends and families.

Frank Amodo is awesome. He was the photographer for my sisters wedding which is how I first heard of him. My husband and I got married in Vegas so we didn’t have the opportunity to work with him for our actually wedding day. We did, however, do a family photo shoot with him. OMG our photos turned out AMAZING (which was no surprise). I told my husband that I want to do family photos with Fank every year.

Ah… my husband was in love with Frank’s work because it was very close in style to a photographer back on the mainland. We immediately contacted Frank and he was quite prompt and professional with emails. Like everyone on here says, «Frank is down to earth, friendly, super nice, talented and you just simply feel comfortable around or with him». This is all true.
Now, I would love to give him 5 stars, except my husband was disappointed with his quality of work. I should preface by saying my husband has a VERY keen eye especially when it comes to clarity and clean shots. He’s the type to notice the smallest and tiniest nick on your car or a dead pixel in your flat screen tv.
So…it took quite a while to get our pictures back from Frank. In fact, I followed up with Frank just to ensure we were on schedule according to our contract. He confirmed that it was on schedule but honestly the finished product delivered a tad later than the promised complete date. Either way no biggie, we got our pictures, yay!
Here is the main issue. As we uploaded the pictures for viewing, we both can tell that the post processing was rushed and was not done with care. Photoshop would have fixed this if done with care and time. Flaws that we saw were bits of the camera stand in the photo still, hubby’s head was photo shopped but it was lopsided, white specs in the bm dresses when they shouldnt be there, Frank’s camera lens was dirty amongst other things. Hubby was really disappointed since he had high expectations. While Frank had a lot going on— its quite understandable, but if you are delivering a service where your reputation matters quite a bit, wouldnt you always want to produce high quality work?
Overall, we still think highly of Frank. He post processed more than what he originally agreed to on the contract which we truly appreciate. However, if he could spend a bit more time and care on the post processing and turning the pictures around sooner rather than later that would make him awesome to the infinity!

Frank is not only a wonderful photographer, but he is also a great guy! He’s down-​to-​earth, so friendly and really made us feel comfortable while being photographed on our special day. Even people outside of our wedding party took notice and told us how nice of a photographer he was. At one point, I even witnessed him OFFER to take a group photo. with THEIR camera!
He was very good about communicating with us before the wedding, and was very quick in reply via email! Even during the weeks leading up to the wedding, he was such a good resource. Talking with him about the shots we wanted actually really helped me in planning out the wedding day details and the final schedule/​program.
Frank and his second shooter, Jeremy (also awesome!) made really good use of the beautiful green scenery and the backdrop of the Ko’Olau range, from many different angles. Everyone so far has been really impressed with our wedding photos and a friend of mine even said that they could be postcard shots or photos you see in wedding mags!
He was also very skillful in capturing the joy and emotion that was felt that day. Looking at our photos brings me back to that happy day, as though I’m reliving it. Being able to take beautiful photos is one thing, but having the ability to transport one back in time through photography, is just magic. Frank did this effortlessly, and this is how I know that he is truly an expert in his craft.
Frank recently contacted me to say that he would be posting some of our photos to his blog, which I’m thrilled about! You know he truly cares about his clients when he carves out the time to do this, despite his in-​demand schedule :)
Great job, Frank! Highly recommended!

This is someone you want to have at your wedding. I hired him for my wedding and I only hearn nothing but GREAT and AWESOME things about our photos. He is so easy to work with and talk to. I LOVE LOVE our pictures. No regrets. He captured my wedding day and all our moments.

Let me start off by saying that Frank is a nice guy and was pleasant to work with. He is obviously very talented which is why we decided to go with him for our wedding (July 2009). Overall, we liked our pictures but the problem is that we wanted to love them. We were expecting our pictures to be more like the ones on his blog but they were mostly standard wedding pictures and poses. There were a few artsy ones (a couple of shots by the beach and one by a beautiful, large tree) but the majority were ones nothing out of the ordinary. Also our package came with a personal online wedding trailer but he did not offer any information on it until we asked (4 months after the wedding).
If I had to give a potential client some tips, it would be:
1). Hire him in an off-​peak time because summers are very busy for him and you could get lost in the shuffle. The wait time on your pictures may also be longer than 3 months.
2.) Be very specific with what you want and ask for lots of direction. My husband and I are not used to taking professional pictures and would have liked a bit more direction on body position and facial expression. We would have also liked a few more pictures during the reception.
3.) Frank is a solid photographer but he’s probably naturally more inspired by some couples and venues than others. You’ll get good pictures but they might not be like the ones on his blog or in the magazines. I’m guessing Frank does a lot more events than the ones he posts on his blog because our wedding did not make it onto it.
I will say that a huge pro for us was that Frank gives you co-​ownership of all the pictures he takes. He’s also just a really nice guy which makes him easy to work with (a big plus since you don’t need any other sources of stress on your wedding day). We were also very happy with the pictures of the actual ceremony.
update: I stand behind my review and think that it is an accurate reflection of my individual experience. I want to respond to Chasity B. who should refrain from calling people out unless she has all the facts.
–Fact: I had a very flexible time line and went with his recommendations on when we should begin taking pictures. Also, our venues were not actually far from each other at all. We took the pictures at Kapiolani Park (his suggestion), the ceremony was by Diamond Head, and the reception was in Waikiki.
–Fact: It is indeed possible for someone to have had a different experience from someone else. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way because I have gotten a couple of messages telling me that they agreed with me.
–Fact: My review was not a bad one. According to Unilocal,three stars is A-​OK and above average. As I said in my review, we liked our pictures and Frank is a nice, talented guy. At the same time, I did not think it was a five star experience for the reasons I mentioned in my review.
Lastly I did want to mention that shortly after I posted my review, I received an email from Frank wishing my husband and I a Happy Anniversary and letting us know that he was going to post some of our images on his blog. I appreciated his email and true to his word, the pictures are on his blog. It adds to my belief that Frank is good guy who cares a lot about making his clients happy on their special day (and even afterwards).

I was looking for a wedding photographer since we were having a destination wedding in Hawaii. I was researching wedding photographers online and ran into — amodophoto. I thought the name was really clever! Then I saw his work and fell in love with the beautiful pictures~ I’m happy to say that we made the right choice by having Frank capture the most important day of our lives. His work is stunning and it’s awesome he was able to do that since we’re the most non-​photogenic people on earth! He can make you look good!
In addition, he is extremely friendly and down to earth. What I’ll remember most about Frank are his little gestures that really made a difference on our big day. For instance, after the wedding ceremony, he was nice enough to get me a glass of water after I had been crying my eyes out at the alter. I was thirsty after all the tears and I think he knew it LOL! Plus, when it was time for the garter toss, we forgot to ask someone to get us a chair, but Frank saves the day and whips out a chair! He went way above and beyond our expectations~

Frank’s work is amazing! We did some shots for fun out on the beach and everyone who has seen the pics asks me if they were photoshopped. Not! The pictures are that good.
He is friendly and funny, and best of all– gets your pictures to you really quick.

Frank’s work is like a still picture that tells a story. I opted not to get a videoagrapher for my reception simply because I knew that Franks work alone will be enough to bring me back to the memories of our wedding. Also, during our wedding he was so nice and even managed to calm my nerves during a «bridezilla» moment.

Frank is frickin awesome. From the moment we met with him he was warm, inviting, and soo easy to get a long with! We just sat, talked wedding business for a brief moment, but other than that just really got to know each other!
His work speaks for himself. He has such a great eye and really captures «those moments». He is a gem of a photographer and person!

There’s just so much I’d love to say about Frank that I don’t even know where to start. Excuse my random thoughts, I’m just going to jot them down as they come to me.
–We *heart* Frank. He was our favorite wedding vendor. Down-​to-​earth, friendly, funny, helpful, and talented. Incredibly talented.
–I love our wedding pictures. We got some obscene number of photos on 4 dvds, an album full of proof prints of the images he hand selected and post-​processed and multiple dvd copies of a photo slideshow he put together.
–I don’t know how he manages to juggle his busy schedule and stay sane but he seems to be doing it very well. I’ve received replies to emails at 2 in the morning from him, because he’s still up working on photos.
–He woke up extra early in order to be at our wedding venue by 7 a.m. Now that’s true dedication, lol.
–My husband and I are very into photography so we were EXTRA picky when it came to choosing a wedding photographer. We didn’t want cheese but we also didn’t want to have to sacrifice any body organs to afford a good photographer. Frank was surprisingly more affordable than I thought he’d be. I was actually scared to contact him because I had already convinced myself that he was beyond what we could afford. Frank was also willing to customize a package to meet our needs.
–Did I say that we *heart* Frank?
We’re 100% happy with our decision to hire Frank. =)

Frank was our wedding photographer. Let me preface this review by saying that my wife was in charge of selecting the wedding photographer, as she has a much better eye for good photographers and what makes a great picture. On a scouting trip back to Hawaii, we met with Frank along with a couple of other photographers. I had a couple of criteria in mind when selecting our photographer:
1. It had to meet our budget (which wasn’t cheap, but at the same time was by no means unlimited)
2. My wife had to like his style
3. (Most important to me) they had to be able to «blend» with our family and friends, and be able to make everyone comfortable enough to pose for a picture, from my 2 year old cousin to my 90 year old grandmother, and everyone in between
Needless to say Frank met all 3 of the criteria and we went with him. Ironically he was the only photographer we actually met with (the other one we had scheduled bailed at the last minute) but honestly he was the only one we needed to meet with. He was willing to work with us and what style we wanted for our pictures, which I really appreciated. Wedding planning is stressful enough as it is, and the last thing I needed was the person I’m paying telling me how I want my pictures taken.
We did 2 sessions with Frank; a 6 hour session for our wedding and a 2 hour shoot for post wedding pictures (instead of an engagement session). For both, Frank was prompt and professional. He was also very well prepared on our wedding day, having already mapped out what shots he wanted before hand. We really appreciated this, as it minimized the transition times between shots and allowed us to spend more time with our guests.
We were really happy with the results overall, and would recommend him to anyone in the future. For samples of his work, check out his webpage and blog (he posts highlights from his shoots on his blog).