Priyanca Rao Photography

Working with Priyanca was an absolute pleasure! From our first meeting, I knew she was the best person for the job.
Priyanca was a recommendation from another photographer and I was so grateful to have found her. My fiancé and I were struggling to find photographers that were able to capture us in a very romantic feel without being so glam. Priyanca fit the bill on what we wanted. She did such an amazing job shooting our engagement and making it a magical moment for us. We gave her artistic freedom and boy did she deliver! Our photos came out gorgeous and have already been featured on a few blogs.
She really took to heart the kind of photos we wanted and what was most important for us during the engagement. I highly recommend her for capturing that special moment in your life. She will go above and beyond for you and you will have amazing photos to cherish for a lifetime.

Thank you so much to Priyanca for doing such a wonderful job in capturing my proposal to now fiancé, Christina! I highly recommend Priyanca for her excellent work product, responsiveness, and talent.
Priyanca was great to work with from the start. Before meeting in person, she was quick to respond to my requests and we thoroughly discussed my plans for the proposal. After our discussions and seeing her work online, I knew she was the right person to capture the special moment.
On the day of the proposal in Central Park, Priyanca and I first met up to walk through the proposal and laid out the optimal areas for the best shots. The proposal went just as planned and Priyanca brilliantly captured the key moments of the proposal such as when my fiancé first saw me and realized that I was going to propose.
After the proposal we did a photo shoot around the area. As we walked along Central Park Priyanca took beautiful pictures. Priyanca had a great eye for color, positioning, and poses. I feel that every picture she took was a great blend of us, our emotions, and the scenery. Within a few days after the proposal I began to see the end product of her work and they were simply amazing. I couldn’t be happier with the results and I highly recommend her!

We had our engagement shot with Priyanca. She is very talented and has a great eye, we love our photos. OK, I LOVE OUR PHOTOS BEYOND WORDS. She is very positive and energetic, as she managed to capture some nice photos of my fiancé who barely smiled, or posed.
Priyanca was also super nice to accommodate our last minute travel changes, we really enjoyed working with her. I highly recommend her.

Planning a wedding can be very stressful, but we searched high and low to find the perfect combination when it came to our wedding photographer — someone that is truly talented and expresses care and love for our special day. I must say Priyanca topped the scale with her amazing charm and unique talent to capture US in our moment, something that I will hold near and dear with fond memories whenever I look back at our wedding weekend.
We knew we wanted our memories captured in a way that was artistic, simplistic but contained depth. By nature, I can be very uncomfortable in front of a camera. At our first meeting, Priyanca displayed her portfolio on a screen and we chatted casually about our relationship, what we were looking for, our likes/​dislikes. She is very professional, very easy to work with and we knew she was the perfect photographer for us. She just totally understood us and saw our vision.
Our wedding weekend she did not disappoint! She acquainted herself with key family members, mingled easily amongst the herd of family around me and everyone felt very comfortable around her. She proved to be invaluable, helping us stay calm and focused on the elements on our day even when we were being pulled in many directions from our family members — Priyanca to the rescue!
We received our photos ahead of schedule, for our engagement shoot, sneak peak, and over 750+ pics for each day of our wedding — all gorgeously beautiful!!!
We cannot recommend Priyanca and her team enough — it was a JOY working with her and one of the best decisions we made during our vendor selection process and she will be our lifelong photographer capturing all our precious moments to come!
PS: Wedding weekend was August 14^th & August 15^th 2015.

She is a great great photographer who can create a love feeling in a scene. Those pictures taken by her are absolutely beautiful! And you almost feel like a movie star. She also delivers pictures very fast!

Priyanca is an extremely sweet and talented photographer.
She takes an interest in knowing the little quirks and style of each of her couples. One technique she does that I found very helpful, was to have each of her brides create a pinterest page of photo styles they admire, in order to have a better eye on what to capture throughout the wedding festivities.
She was always on time and understanding of any unplanned mayhem that accompanies a wedding day. She makes you feel comfortable, allowing you take to take natural photos and her style is just amazing. Her ability to visualize and creatively execute a photo are what made her work so special to us. We loved how moments were captured at unusual angles and incorporating different aspects of light and shadowing, allowing for a VERY unique and gorgeous set of pics. I would highly recommend her! Not only she is bubbly, sweet and easy to work with, her professionalism and final works of art are exactly what you would want to remember your special day with. LOVE HER!

Priyanca was such an amazing photographer. My fiancé and I are from San Francisco and wanted to take our engagement photos in New York. It was so hard to find one since barely anyone responded to our emails, but Priyanca was great in responding right away and even worked within our budget. I liked how she took natural shots of us, ones that didn’t seem too «posey.» Everyone is raving about how our pictures turned out. I’m so glad we chose Priyanca. She’s truly amazing!

Priyanca was amazing! We had our engagement pictures taken in Central Park this last June. She was helpful every step of the way and we got several amazing pictures to remember this time in our lives forever.

I am so happy we chose Priyanca as our wedding photographer! From our first in-​person meeting she’s been a dream to work with, responding to emails promptly and giving insightful suggestions on logistics, timing and everything in between.
On our wedding day, Priyanca and her second shooter Lacey got to work right away and were excellent at corralling my large family together for our portraits. Lacey got some great candid shots of the guys getting ready, and Priyanca managed to capture all the excitement and emotion on the girl’s side.
About 8 days after the wedding Priyanca sent the sneak peak and I almost started crying the pictures were so beautiful! Priyanca managed to capture so many intimate moments, like my mom’s face as she watched me get ready or my bridesmaids wiping a tear from my eye. She’s also incredibly creative and really puts you at ease in front of the camera.
I recently received all 700 + photos from the big day and I’m seriously blown away. The pictures truly capture the emotion, spirit and joyfulness of our wedding. I would highly recommend Priyanca to any bride-​to-​be!

Priyanca’s work is artistic, tasteful and really captures the subjects’ personalities! We got engagement photos in east and west village. Priyanca was receptive to our ideas in terms of locations and she offered great ideas as well. She was a pleasure to interact with and made us feel comfortable in front of the camera. Highly recommend her! Our family and friends agreed that the pictures turned out beautiful!

Priyanca is a great photographer. She photographed amazing photos for my fiancé and I during our two hour engagement photo shoot. The images are creative and natural. She captured our special moments beautifully. We totally and wholeheartedly recommend her.

Priyanca is one of those photographers that have that special something. She’s able to take brilliant, creative photographs in an unassuming space and make them look remarkable. Her passion is infectious — she gets excited by the thought of a great shot and makes lots of suggestions/​gives direction which helps immensely if you’re a novice at being photographed, like my fiancé and I were.
I found Priyanca after some research on Instagram, Unilocal & Pinterest and reached out to her via Unilocal message. She was quick to respond and we moved to communicating via email about what exactly I was looking for. I ended up booking her for my engagement party in NYC and for a preshoot session in the cloisters (location suggestion was hers). She was very flexible and easy to work with in terms of scheduling, and was always punctual and professional. She sent us an email with suggestions on attire a few days before the shoot, which we found helpful.
She sent us a sneak peek a few days after both events which was so fun, since we were itching to see what the pics looked like! I also got my full portfolio of pics within 2 – 3 weeks of my shoot. Needless to say, my photos are amazing!!! Truly time pieces. She’s fantastic, and I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone looking for creative shots! Priyanca is going to be incredibly famous once people get wind of her talent!

Priyanca was our wedding photographer and, boy, did she do a great job!
Before we «sealed the deal», as they say, we met up with Priyanca at a coffee shop to talk about everything. She was very professional and brought examples of her work (which is amazing, creative, romantic, joyful [insert more positive adjectives]).
Once we had our venue locked down, Priyanca came with us to check the place out and find good places to shoot from and whatnot. We even walked around the neighborhood to find some cool outdoor places. I think it really showed dedication to getting beautiful pictures that would blend her style with ours! There’s nothing worse than getting generic wedding photos, am I right? Huh? Huh?!
So we had some drama with our wedding venue (google Rebar wedding) and had to change venues 2 days before the wedding. Priyanca was a champ and we worked with her to figure out a new plan that included moving from our hotel in TriBeCa to DUMBO to our new venue (which was now outdoors) in Downtown Brooklyn.
After the wedding, because of the fiasco with our venue, we needed a couple wedding photos earlier than the predetermined time frame and she was able to send over a handful of really great shots!
When we got all the photos, they were gorgeous. She got ALL our guests and some really tender moments as well as those great classics like the cake cutting. We were beyond impressed with her work and work ethics! We love you, Priyanca!!!

Love love love Priyanca! I did a last minute engagement photo shoot in NY and I couldn’t be happier with the results, this girl is fun, artistic and knows how to make you feel comfortable in front of a camera. My friends and family were blown away by her pictures. Would recommend her to anybody and will use her again for my photo shoots.

Priyanca’s photos showed the kind of uniqueness I was looking for. I was planning a surprise trip to NYC and proposal for my now-​fiancé, and explained what I was looking for to Priyanca. Not only was she excited about shooting our photos, she had some great ideas! Since I was coming in from out of town, she even scouted out the location in advance (Rockefeller Center), and spoke with the guards to make sure she’d be able to get a good shot. She was in constant communication with me, leading all the way up to the big moment. She really thought of everything, and our proposal shots turned out wonderfully (despite the fact that it was rain/​snowing that evening).
The next day we ventured out for engagement photos. Priyanca shot us at the NYC Public Library, Bryant Park and Central Park. Priyanca’s enthusiasm was contageous, and we had the absolute best time. She is very casual and engaging, sweet and funny. She is so easy to work with. Best of all, she knows how to get an amazing shot. We were absolutely thrilled with the caliber of her work, and we will treasure her photos for the rest of our lives. They turned out AMAZING.
I cannot give enough positive feedback about Priyanca. Her work speaks for itself (check out her website), but the best part about Priyanca is her amazing spirit and getting to work with her. Anyone thinking of using her will not be disappointed. I rarely give a perfect review to anyone, but Priyanca was perfection.

Where do I start… Priyanca is great and professional. I have a wife that is in love with pictures and admires memories. So I did the next best thing, I hired Priyanca for our wedding ceremony and after wedding pictures. The wife had no clue and after great communication via Cell Phone/​E-​Mail and a prior meeting at Central Park to determine which areas should be used for beautiful portrait, Priyanca showed up on time ready to snap away the day of the wedding. My wife was surprised and after a short two weeks the results showed. The photos were amazing.
We had an amazing experience and we are already working on our second photo-​shoot. I would recommend her to all that want memorable moment captured in photos.
And I almost forgot… She’s also a very strong women… You should of seen the bag she carried in the middle of July without breaking sweat.
Thank you Priyanca

Priyanca did an engagement photo shoot for my fiancé and I in NYC and we were so impressed! She is creative, easy to work with and we were definitely pleased with the results. The photos were absolutely unique and beautiful. Highly, highly recommend this talented photographer!

We chose Priyanca Rao Photography for our engagement and wedding photographer and are thoroughly impressed! We feel lucky to have found her and were blown away by her portfolio, especially given her very reasonable pricing.
Priyanca was a pleasure to work with. She is passionate about photography and eager to get the perfect shot and craft interesting compositions. Priyanca was loved by all the guests at our wedding, and that was before they saw the final result.
We have gotten endless compliments on Priyanca’s wedding photos from friends and family — the hardest part at this point is choosing which ones to print! The engagement and wedding photos were even featured in online wedding magazines Brooklyn Bride and Carats and Cake.
We wholeheartedly recommend Priyanca Rao Photography to anyone who is looking for an easy-​going, professional, and creative photographer, whether it be for an engagement, wedding, or family photo shoot. Thanks Priyanca!

Priyanca was our wedding photographer, and we couldn’t be more happy about our choice.
We chose Priyanca because she is able to capture images with a very creative, playful, unusual eye. Her pictures are often taken at daring angles, often using ordinary elements like mirrors, or other common decorative elements to create something surprising and unique. Her images have beautiful, rich colors, and she has an amazing ability to use natural light.
Priyanca knows exactly how to turn something ordinary like the side mirror of a car, a lamp post, a taxi cab, or a group of tourists all wearing the same t-​shirt into an extraordinary, evocative, image. She is very pleasant, great to work with, and will always make you feel completely at ease. She is extremely professional, and even scouted our wedding/​reception venue in advance.
Her prices were very competitive, and she gave us a «sneak peek» preview of the photos just eight days after the ceremony. The contract we signed said that she would provide edited digital copies of 500 photographs in JPEG format within 6 weeks of the event, but in fact, she provided all the images (and a few extra more) in half that time, less than 3 weeks after the event.
The final results were absolutely stunning. Beautiful pictures that really captured the spirit, energy, intensity, and magic of the day. I’m also very happy that she took a lot of pictures of all our guests.
Priyanca is an extraordinarily talented photographer and a wonderful person, and I would not hesitate to hire her again. Snatch her before she becomes big.

Priyanca did my engagement-​dinner photo shoot, and boy do I wish she had been available to do my wedding as well! The pictures turned out fabulous, nothing less. Priyanca worked with me in a way that put me at complete ease. I was pretty stressed out most of the time, about guests, food and all other things — but Priyanca worked around me. She quietly followed me around until the moment was just right, and snap snap snap!
Good photographers are not just ones who know their way around a camera, they need to know their way around people. Priyanca’s demeanor put all my guests at ease, and everyone still asks about her. I would not think twice to have her take pics of my family again.