Shane Long Photography

Shane and Anna are an incredible duo! From day one, Shane was a calming, positive, and professional presence, and he is a big reason why we had such an amazing wedding day. He took the time to get to know us as people and what we valued as a couple, and that authenticity really came through in the photos he was able to capture. We also appreciated how FAST Shane was able to take the photos compared to other photographers (especially great with three flower girls under 5), and we liked how he asked for our input on various shots throughout the day. Anna absolutely nailed the editing and was very communicative with us throughout the process as well. Everybody in our wedding party was asking for his card by the end of the night! Can't recommend Shane highly enough.

Shane and Anna Long are the DREAM TEAM!! From beginning to end, your experience with them will be none other than EXCELLENT!
I first heard of Shane Long Photography from another photographer referral. When I searched to find Shane Long Photography on Instagram, I was amazed by all the lovely photos that were show cased on his page. In his bio, I saw that he lives half of the year in Florida and the other half the year in Minnesota, and I immediately got chills of excitement as I grew up in Florida and was hoping to have our engagement shoot in my hometown. I quickly reached out to see if Shane was available for our wedding date in Minnesota, and thankfully he was!!
After booking, my (now) husband and I had an opportunity to FaceTime with Shane and share a little bit about our love story and talk about ideas for our engagement shoot coming up in Florida. I also was in communication with Shane’s wife Anna too. Over the past 10 months Anna and I emailed back and forth with each other regarding any questions I had, and she was always super kind and quick to get back to me!
When we finally met with Shane in Florida for our engagement shoot, in February 2022, we had SO MUCH FUN! Since Florida is where I grew up it was important to us to have photos taken where I was from. We also loved finding a location with the classic palm trees in the background! Shane made us feel relaxed and had us laughing almost the whole time! We received three sneak peek photos that evening from our engagement shoot earlier that day and were blown away by how beautiful they were! After only a week and a half a blog post was made of our Florida engagement session on Shane’s website, and we also received our full digital gallery!
About one week before our wedding, we had a brief phone call with Shane to finalize the wedding day timeline and to talk about important moments we wanted captured. On the day of our wedding Shane surprised us by showing up earlier than we expected!! Shane arrived and shot some getting ready photos for both the ladies and the gentlemen. He also found time to do some detailed shots of our wedding invitations, my bridal jewelry, and florals. Shane followed us to the church for the ceremony and was ready to go as soon as we arrived. He was wonderful about being respectful during the celebration of our Catholic wedding Mass and afterwards had all the names ready to go for family group photos. Although we had a tight schedule, Shane was able to squeeze in time for my husband and I to go to the exact spot where he asked me to marry him, right on the Mississippi River! Next, we went back to our reception venue for more photos with our wedding party in a nearby park. Shane was super great about making sure everyone was having fun and we all had big smiles on our faces! During cocktail hour, Shane again surprised us with a slide show of photos from our wedding day that were taken earlier in the day!! SO AMAZING!! We had so many guests compliment Shane and say how incredible he was, which we totally agreed with! After dinner, Shane pulled my husband and me away for some sunset photos, and this session was probably one of my favorites of the day! The golden hour was perfect, and it was a great way for the two of us, as husband and wife, to step away and enjoy a private moment alone.
A couple days after our wedding, Shane posted a few sneak peek photos on his Facebook and Instagram pages! We were again surprised and amazed at how beautifully Shane captured our day! And exactly one week from when we got married, Anna shared a blog post about our wedding day and sent us our full wedding gallery! We were truly amazed at how quickly they were able to deliver the finished product! We loved every one of those photos and we will cherish them for a lifetime!!
We cannot say enough fanatic things about Shane and Anna! If I could give them a hundred starts, I would! They are so talented and they are such kind and caring people! I highly recommend them for your wedding day! It will be one of the BEST decisions you make for your special day!

Choosing Shane Long Photography to capture our wedding was one of the best choices we made during our wedding planning! Their communication is incredible, and their energy, positivity, and flexibility made our wedding planning experience so great. They are one of the vendors that DECREASE stress rather than add to it. The photographs are incredible as well. You won't regret choosing them!!

We could not have been happier to work with Shane & Anna throughout our wedding process. Being a bride during COVID was difficult enough that when we decided to move our wedding date up (more than a month) one of our non-negotiable was whether or not Shane could still shoot our wedding. They both made it so easy, were willing to be flexible, and our entire day was more fun because of our photographer choice.

AND WE LOVE OUR PICTURES! I've never had so many people comment on the beauty of our pictures and all of that credit goes to Shane and Anna. Even my brother and his new fiancé decided they couldn't use anyone else.

As videographers, we love working with Shane! He is organized and engaging, bringing peace and joy to every second of the wedding day. He facilitates moments of genuine connection, and captures those moments skillfully and beautifully. Shane is an incredible photographer and an incredible human being!

Shane Long Photography provided the perfect experience for our engagement photos and wedding day! As I was planning my own wedding, I greatly appreciated Anna's quick response times and friendly communications throughout the entire wedding planning process. Shane was a wonderful photographer. He braved single digit temperatures for our February engagement session (after giving us the flexibility to change the date/time last minute if we weren't wanting to brave the cold temps), and he captured all the important moments on the big day. He even got a family photo that included five kids under the age of 4 all looking and smiling at the camera! Our family and friends were really impressed with their interactions with Shane, and we are extremely pleased with our experience and the timeless photos we received.

Shane and his wife Anna are absolutely amazing. They truly were the best at capturing our special day and the final product is absolutely breath taking. In addition to being amazing at photography, they were such a great resource when we had wedding questions for that were not photography related. Two of the most kind hearted, spectacular people I’ve had the privilege of working with. Can’t wait to have them capture more special moments in our life

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but we’d need far more words than that to truly convey how much the incredible photos Shane took are worth to us. We feel SO lucky to have found Shane and Anna, and we join the legions of couples who consider hiring them to be among their best wedding decisions. We were absolutely blown away when we got our photos back. From the big moments to the little details, he could not have more perfectly captured our wonderful day! Beyond Shane’s extraordinary photography skills, he and Anna have been such a pleasure to work with! We had so much fun with Shane during our engagement session and wedding day, and our guests/wedding party kept coming up to tell us how awesome he was to be around. We could not have been more grateful for Anna’s kindness, flexibility, and fantastic communication from our first email onward – so appreciated, especially in these uncertain times. Her editing talents elevate Shane’s artistry even further. If you are fortunate enough to have Shane & Anna available on your date, don’t hesitate to snag them! You will be SO glad you did!

Shane and Anna are amazing to work with and such a professional, skilled team of artists. It was important to me to have beautiful lighting and colors and to capture the emotion of our Wedding day in a natural way for us to remember it forever. They over delivered and I can’t recommend them highly enough. Beyond photography, they are an awesome couple and so kind and helpful through the whole process of wedding planning and finding vendors. If on a budget (like we were), consider spending more on photography and less on another area (food, florals, decor, venue...) the beautiful photos will carry memories for so much longer than many of the other things you can spend on. Well worth the investment.

My wife and I now have a life long photographer that we want for our most treasured events. THAT is how much we enjoyed working with Shane and Anna for our wedding. Shane takes the most beautiful pictures and his wife Anna was a dream to work with getting them booked and set up prior to the wedding. Seriously, if you’ve read this far in the reviews, book them right now. You won’t regret it.

We're so happy we chose to work with Shane and Anna. The entire experience was great, but I've selected a couple noteworthy points to highlight:
- Prompt communication. Emails and phone calls were answered quickly. This high level of organization was maintained from first contact all the way through the wedding day.
- Great energy. Exactly the type of personality you want on your big day. Shane is enthusiastic and orchestrated the group shots very smoothly. I also appreciated the subtle tips and direction when necessary to pose the portraits perfectly.
- The photos! We had a perfect balance of both posed and candid shots. The digital gallery was shared with us within a week with download access to full resolution photos in both color and B&W. It almost seems like an afterthought to mention the incredible quality of the photos, which were edited to be timeless and not trendy.

Cannot recommend highly enough, 5/5, 10/10, 100/100

We had a wonderful experience with Shane and Anna Long! They went above and beyond in every way! Shane was fun loving, organized, encouraging, and professional. We felt so comfortable during our engagement photos and wedding photos. Anna and Shane both communicated with us throughout the entire process and their organization and fun personality made our day run so smoothly. Our photos turned out absolutely AMAZING!! Shane captured ALL our moments and we have so many photos to cherish for years to come! We highly recommend Shane and Anna Long. They are truly AMAZING at what they do and made our special day even that more special!
-Megan & James Sterne
July 27, 2019

Shane and Anna made the wedding process a breeze! They answered ALL of my questions and even gave me tips on creating the schedule (which was super helpful). They are such a kind, encouraging team. On the day of, Shane directed people SO well and made sure everyone was comfortable. He was open to ideas and I felt like everyone's needs were heard. My family and friends raved about Shane and how good he was, which says a lot. Shane Long Photography is AMAZING - they really did make our day great. We hope to work with Shane and Anna again!

Absolutely incredible. Shane did a great job. We were so happy with how he handled our people and the final products. We highly recommend him!

Shane and Anna are the best of the best. From our first meeting, through receiving our final images, there was such attention to detail and service. They are truly a talented team! Shane captured our day perfectly, keeping everyone from the parents to the flower girl comfortable and at ease while effortlessly documenting every tender look and showstopping moment. Anna kept us in the loop and made us all look like magazine material before sending us our images less than a week(!!!!) after our wedding. Everyone who has seen our images has raved over them and before my wedding day was even over, I was hearing comments from friends and family about how incredible our photographer was. There's no doubt that we will be turning to Shane and Anna again (and again) whenever the future holds more special moments that need captured!