Three minutes about my grandfather's espresso recipe and how it became our brand. Em captured the soul of it. My grandfather watched it three times and could not speak afterwards.
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Three minutes about my grandfather's espresso recipe and how it became our brand. Em captured the soul of it. My grandfather watched it three times and could not speak afterwards.
I used three other photographers before Em. None of them flew drones in downtown because none of them could. Em files LAANC and gets it done.
Em's author portrait runs on the back of my novel. My publisher said it was the best author portrait they had received in five years. The book is doing well.
A 14-minute mission documentary about our north side branch. Em's portraits of the kids are heart-breaking. We used the film in our $2M capital campaign.
When you are Albanian, you know how loud a wedding gets. Em never flinched. The audio on the toasts is perfectly clean despite the band that started 20 minutes early.
I was uncomfortable being directed in front of a camera and Em could tell. He stopped giving instructions and just let us walk and talk. Those are the photos we chose.
Em's editorial portrait of me at my desk is on every speaker page I get featured on. Booking inquiries from speaking events have tripled.
Three-day legal conference. Em's team covered every panel and delivered same-day social cuts every day. Our registration for next year is already at 80% of capacity.
Our annual gala at a downtown hotel. Em delivered the highlight recap by 9am the next morning and we used it in fundraising appeals all week. Brought in an extra $42K.
Em made a five-minute film about three generations of Italian bread. My father wept watching it. My customers stop me in the bakery to talk about it.
Em's HDR doesn't look like HDR. The interiors look like the room you actually walked into. That is harder than it sounds.
A founder profile for a women-led real estate brokerage. Em's framing centered my story without making it feel like a lecture. Won me my LSA spotlight feature.
Monthly retainer for construction progress photos. Em files LAANC every flight, never misses a month, photos are time-stamped and organized by trade. Professional.
Came in under budget, delivered ahead of schedule, exceeded every expectation. I tell every engaged friend I know to book Em before he raises his prices.
Em filmed our independence day celebration. The footage of the Albanian flag with the children dancing underneath is on our homepage now. Goosebumps.
Em filmed a documentary about domestic violence survivors in the Albanian community. He protected every subject's identity while still telling their story. The film won an Emmy nomination.
Twilight shoot on a $4.2M North Shore listing. Sold above ask within a week. The video was the bait. Em was the line.
My fiancé hates having his photo taken. Em made him laugh four times and got the only good photo of his face that exists from 2024.
Chuppah, hora, bedeken — Em knew the order of every traditional element better than my husband did. The photos of the hora are kinetic.
Aerial-only shoot on a Lake Bluff estate that had 1.4 acres. The photos showed the property in a way the interiors never could. Buyer flew in from California.
Our annual interfaith iftar. Em was respectful of prayer times, of women's spaces, of every concern we had. The footage is dignified.
We had a Lebanese ceremony and an American reception in the same weekend. Em delivered two separate films for the two sides of our family. Both feel completely true to what they were.
Em has never tried to upsell me on something I do not need. He tells me when a listing needs the upgrade and when it does not. That honesty is rare.
Em filmed our muralist festival. The footage of the artists at work is now educational material in CPS art classrooms. He made something larger than the event.
My headshot got me 4,200 LinkedIn impressions in a week and three new business inquiries. Em is now in my pitch deck as a recommended partner.
I have a phobia about photographers running long. Em is in and out in 90 minutes for a standard residential. Has never delayed one of my showings.
The dua portrait of my parents praying over us is going to be in our living room forever. Em waited for the moment. He did not stage it. You can tell.
I have looked at hundreds of wedding galleries online. Ours is the only one I can stomach looking at. That has to mean something.
Em's portrait of me on the trading floor — golden hour through the floor-to-ceiling windows — looks like a finance industry magazine cover.
The vertical social cut Em made for us got 40K views on TikTok within a week. We didn't even ask for that — he just included it. The man knows what he's doing.
The twilight upgrade on the luxury listings has converted four buyers who saw the photos before they ever walked the property. That is the ROI conversation.
I cried when I got the gallery. I am not a crier. The photo of us laughing on the bench is going to be hanging in our first house someday.
Em's 30-second TV spot ran on Albanian TV in Chicago and got our cousin in Tirana to call us asking what we had done. International reach.
The henna night photos are framed all over my mother's house in Amman. She called me at 2am her time after the gallery dropped. She was crying.
Em filmed a documentary about my family's 100-year history in winemaking. We use it in our distributor pitches. They tell us no other winery has anything like it.
White balance consistent across every room. Verticals straight. Windows exposed. No fish-eye distortion. This is the bar. Em meets it every time.
I gave Em a list of seven specific moments I wanted captured. He got all seven plus about forty others I never would have thought of. The first-look footage is my favorite thing I own.
Our flower girl had a meltdown twenty minutes before the ceremony. Em quietly photographed her dad holding her, both of them in tears. That photo is the one we framed.
Aerial included as standard, drone authorized for Class B downtown, color-corrected interiors, vertical lines straight. I do not know why anyone uses another vendor.
Eid family photos in our backyard, all six of us in coordinating outfits. Em delivered the gallery in nine days. Eid mubarak indeed.
The photo of my dad alone at the kiddush before walking me down the aisle — composed, calm, breathing — is the photo I will frame for the day he is no longer here.
Property in Park Ridge for $1.1M. Em's aerial showed the deep backyard that the wide-angle interiors could not. Three offers in week one.
Em's documentary about Syrian families resettling in Chicago premiered at the an independent theater. Sold out two screenings. Funded our next two years of operations.
Em's color is unreal. The reds in my mother's rebozo are correct in every single photo. Anyone who has tried to photograph a mexican wedding knows what I mean.
Annual benefit at the a major Chicago museum. Em's recap played at the start of our next event and our top donor said it was the best fundraiser video he'd ever seen.
Booked Em to second-shoot a major industry awards show. He was faster than my A-camera operator. Hired him permanently after that night.
A 22-minute film about Italian-American Chicago. Em's footage in the old Taylor Street neighborhood — what is left of it — is a historical document now.
Two boys, ages 4 and 7. Em did not try to make them sit still. He played with them and the photos are the truest version of them that exists.
Em's drone footage of the dabke dance circles is now the festival's identity. Used on all our promotional material for next year.
Em's broadcast-quality portraits gave my career a new visual identity. My contract was renewed with a substantial raise three weeks after the new headshots ran.
The portraits at the lakefront, my hijab in motion, the wind catching everything — I have never felt more myself in a photograph.
Em's portrait of me at my drafting table is the press headshot every interview now uses. I get tagged in articles I did not even know about.
Em's aerials of my West Loop development closed the construction loan. The bank had not seen progress documentation that detailed before.
Em's headshot of me is now on the cover of my firm's new website. Three clients told me they hired us specifically because of how I looked in that photo.
I am Albanian. Em is Albanian. We work in shorthand. He knows what I want before I ask. That alone is worth the booking.
The candid of my grandmother lighting the seventh candle of the menorah — she passed two months later — is hanging in our hallway. We see it every morning.
I am Greek and my husband is Albanian. Em filmed both ceremonies with equal care. My mother said the Greek dance footage made her feel like she was on Naxos again.
Em waited through three takes of my father attempting to give a toast in English. He filmed all three. The final delivered version is the second take, which is the most him. I trust this man with my memories.
The shot of my husband's reaction during the bride entrance is the most honest photo of him I have ever seen. He looks like he is being undone in slow motion.
Em caught the moment my grandmother first held our nephew during the cocktail hour — eight seconds we didn't even know were being filmed. That clip alone was worth the whole package.
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