My wife really did her homework when it came to the Photographer- So happy she did and that we met Jeff! He really did a great job throughout the night and we just received our pics- Exceeded both our expectations and we are really happy with our choice! Great job Jeff- Thank you for capturing our special day.

Honestly- we purchased a groupon and wasn't sure what to expect but Jeff was great. He made us feel comfortable and took tons of pictures of us in the moment- which was great. Definitely recommend him!

Unbelievable photos from Jeff. His website candidshotphoto.com shows some wonderful photos of weddings and portraits and I've read the other reviews and went to see him directly in his studio. He is friendly, professional and a talented artist with his camera. I have to believe that there is something wrong with some people that they are not thrilled with his work. The service at our wedding was the best. The photos that we got were unbelievable and much better than we expected. He came early, was polite and friendly to all the guests. My guests were thrilled at how he treated them. They said he never missed a beat. I would highly recommend him in a heartbeat. Don't even listen to the poor reviews that are listed on this site. I asked him about them and he informed me that they were the only clients he had that did not pay for their wedding photographer and the only ones that gave a bad review. One was a friend of his wife and the worst of people. Any way, go see his studio in Freehold and do your own judging. Thanks Jeff! Joe M.

Really nice guy. Seemed professional. Great deal. Perfect local. ....No pictures! Called a week after i was supposed to receive the prints and was told "they were sent to you last week". I called the local post office ...nothing. Jeff called back and asked who i was again. I reminded him ..again. This time he couldn't place where the pictures were. Third call back and I am told the pictures are gone. Apparently all of the pictures that were taken were written over at his next event that day. Sorry, but that seems a bit irresponsible when this is the business your in. My wife and are very disappointed over the issue as the picts were for our Holiday cards. But I couldn't imagine if the pictures were for our wedding!

Let me start out by saying we have given Jeff every chance to do the right thing by us which he has chosen not to do. We had our wedding postponed due to Hurricane Irene which Jeff was booked at least 6 monthsin advance. When our wedding was postponed we had a honeymoon that was prepaid for that we had to still go on. From the honeymoon location we got in contact with all our vendors to see what dates would be available to them so we could pick a new date to get married in the same location. We went back and forth with Jeff even though we had only given him a $100 deposit to make sure it was a date he could do. A week before the wedding I personally called him even though all the other vendors had called me to assure everything will run smoothly. When I called him he said no problem. He will see us an hour before the wedding. I told him because my wife isnt really interested in pre-wedding pictures, maybe he could take more during the wedding to which he said he will do the best he can. He told us because we still hadn't done engagement photos that maybe we would like to do post wedding photos to which I said would be a great idea. So we had confirmed our wedding date and time and he reacted like all the other vendors. He was well aware of the date and time and he calmly said he will meet us there no problem. So the wedding jitters were there the day of our wedding. I was running around fixing ties and shaking hands while my wife to be was getting ready herself. I was handing out the checks to every vendor that I saw. About 15 minutes before the ceremony I reached into my pocket to find a check with Jeff's name on it. I said where is my photographer. Nobody had seen him. I called him and he calmly said hello. I said Jeff it's Kurt Mayer. He said yes. I said where are you. He again very calmly said I didnt have your information so I didnt know where to go or how to contact you. He didn't seem to broken up about it to my shock. I tried to stay calm. I said well are you coming now that I called you? (Thinking Jees, How does he not have my information) He said sure. Where is the wedding? I said at the Madison Hotel in Morristown. He said Im at least an hour away which I knew because we lived in relatively the same area. I again tried to stay calm and told him to come as quicly as he could. By the time he got here he would hopefully be here for the reception. I knew already my wife would be devestated there would be no "professional" pictures of her ceremony. To his credit at the time one of the last things he said to me on that phone conversation was that he was sorry for the "mix up" and that this event was on him. I thought well at least he is waiving his fee because of this rediculous mistake on his part and at least whatever pictures we do get we won't have to pay for which would have been nice. I say would have been because after he got there in time for the reception he took as many pictures as he could. It was a little weird because our guests were done with happy hour and we had to try to get in as many family pictures as we could in the beautiful reception room while our guests stood there staring at us kind of taking away from the 1st introduction as man and wife. So all went well enough ( He was more than a little obnoxious about where and how to take pictures but we thought he did a decent job of taking a lot of pictures) for the next three or four hours until the next time we spoke to him. He told us over the phone a few days later that even though HE SAID THE EVENT WAS ON HIM HE MEANT THAT ONLY A LOW RESOLUTION DISK AND HIS TIME WAS ON HIM. He was a professional photographer who brought 10k worth of eqipment with him and if we wanted our high resolution disk we would have to pay him $500. We were so shocked. My wife was flabbergasted. She took the phone from me and reminded Jeff of his major mistake which he acknowledged aagin and what he said to us about not having to pay for anything. He was as cold about the situation as you can't even imagine. He couldn't care less. In my opinion it was as if he knew he was going to pull this from the time he got to the event. He told us it would be on him so we would feel compensated and content at the event and then hold us ransom after. As if he has done this before. We tried to get through to him in different ways about word of mouth advertisment and how he simply just had to stay to his word and we would understand his mistake. He didnt care. He kept saying he was a professional. I asked him what was the most important thing about being a photographer at a wedding? I asked him wouldnt it be getting to the event on time in the first place,(Don't forget he wouldnt have been there at all if we didnt call him) so stop telling me that bringing 10k worth of equip. and snapping shots for 7 years makes you a professional. You made a big mistake and now you are going back on your word for $500 to which our original contrat was for less considering the time he was there. He said he didnt have the original contract even. I told him we did. We had received a 15% discount because we booked early. From there we negotiated down to a possible $340 for the high resolution disk and that he would send us the 5 physical pictures we were supposed to receieve of our choice at no charge. We told him if we were happy with the 5 pictures we would consider purchasing the high res. disk. My wife never wanted to give him a dime because of his nasty, cold persona about the whole thing but I felt badly because these were pictures we were looking forward too. It turns out there werent many pictures Jeff took that were worth paying for. In my opinion the pictures lacked imagination and creativity and besides the camera to which they were taken I would never be able to distiquish if these pictures were taken by a professional or just any guest at the weeding. So per his request we emailed him five pictures we wanted from a low res. disk he sent us. I labeled which ones I wanted as 8x10s and which ones we wanted as 5x7, etc. He sends us the pictures and one of them was the wrong picture. When I made him aware he said well you relabeled the pictures. Next time don't do that. You made me have to guess at which ones you wanted and I guess I guessed wrong. I just shook my head. You should have seen the picture. I looked so bad in the picture so mid blink you would have thought if this was a professional he would have made a quick call or email and said are you sure you want this one? You don't look as good as this one next to it. (There were other pictures on the low res disk that he could have fixed furing the even. For example my father's flower on his lapel was sideways in every picture) We wanted the other one because it was one picture that had a liitle bit of an artsy quality to it. The room was dim and the candlelighting on the table was nice. So he resends us the picture we wanted but took it upon himself to raise the lighting in the picture. Unbeleivable!. He couldnt even recognize the best part of the picture. Who asked him to do that? He also cropped other pictures that we didn't ask him to do. All he had to do is simply ask. Be a little bit professional. Maybe we wanted flower girl in the picture? I called him again to ask him why he raised the lighting in this picture, but I couldnt do it anymore. It wasn't worth my aggrevation. I hung up and we decided that this guy doesnt deserve a dime from us. In my opinion he is lazy, forgetful, unprofessional, cold, and not a nice person to do any type of business with let alone something as special as your precious once in a lifetime wedding day with. I would highly suggest anyone who has given a $100 deposit to this photographer let it go. Don't take the chance of this happening to you. You really do get what you pay for. Can you believe this is somebody that my mother and his wife had a friendly aquaintance with in the antique business to which he didnt seem to care one ioda when reminded of that. Imagine how he might treat you without this type of relation referral. I gave him a 3 on responsiveness because he does answer his phone when you call. I give a 1 for professionalism because he at least gave us 5 physical pictures, did eventually come to the event, and a very low resolutin disk, but I can't give hime more because of how this played out. A 1 on value because I fell like what we did get out of this amounted to a 1. And flexibilty is a joke. He will be happy to change dates for you, but might not show up or save any information to get in contact with you, I look forward to Jeff's response on here!! If he does respond you will have to decide for yourselves who sounds more believable.