Paulina Simankowicz Photography - Bruno-Marek-Allee 15/5/20/1020

If you are looking for a great personality and a professional photographer in one, then you should choose Paulina. We are not a top model couple and photo sessions aren’t our daily bread, but the photo shooting was for us like meeting a good friend with a chatting, laughing and in the meantime Paulina was catching moments on picture. So there was no place for stress because of the posing. Paulina managed to capture the special moments on the photos, she chose fantastic background scenes, made us act naturally, and the outcome (the photos) very really impressing and very satisfying. Don’t hesitate to hire Paulina for your photo session, you won’t regret it.

I just have received printed photos and can’t wait to share my happiness! I believe it is very important to capture moments of our life especially such imports ones as a birth of a child. Paulina made a magnificent job to show one hour of our everyday life with a newborn. And believe me it was not easy! There were moments of happiness and moments of sadness. As the result photos are very natural, emotional, such, as you look at them and every time you find another beautiful detail. Paulina is great with babies and with their parents too. She is very professional during a photo shooting and delivers photos quickly. We have ordered as well a photo book, which I can’t wait to see!

Paulina is one of those photographers that really listens to what you what and tries with you to achieve the best possible results. I did with me photos for my CV when I was looking for a new job and she did amazing job! So nice and sweet and I got the job as well :) Will go back to her as soon as I need anything else to be done ✅

Paulina is not just a good photographer, she gets the vibe of the person and reflects it in the photographs. I needed to renew my pictures for my website and other professional purposes, I found Paulina and never regretted choosing her. She dedicated a lot of time to our photosessions, she made sure that we got a big variety of shots, she made every possible effort to accomodate my very specific demands. I'm incredibly grateful to her for her work and for the variety of wonderful and professional photos that I now have.

Paulina photographed my maternity. Initially, I was very reluctant to do a maternity shoot as I do not feel comfortable in being on camera. However, I am sure I would have regretted not having photos of this magical time. And I am so happy that I found Paulina for this job! She was incredibly friendly, professional and responsive. Before the shoot she gave me thoroughly advice on the selection of suitable clothing. At the shoot - which was done at Wienerberg, a beautiful location with not too many people at this time of the year - she made me feel comfortable in front of the camera. She is really good at giving direction for poses. I was very happy with all my photos. Her work is excellent, reasonably priced, and the photos were ready promptly. Highly recommend!

I can highly recommend Paulina as a family photographer. She truly loves her job and does ist with heart and all the skills she has gained during the years of collecting her experience. We've had already two home photo shootings done year by year and what I could say this is the best thing I could do for my kids as a material gift for them for the future. Paulina has a very good contact even with the little children, is charming, talkative and open minded person. Her photos show the important things - emotions. The background of the home is only a canvas for the picture, blurred and not significant, this is what I wanted to! Five stars fly for the best Family Photographer in Vienna! ???

Paulina was simply superb. We had a maternity photo session in nature with our toddler and not only was it a very memorable, fun experience, we are also delighted with the stunning photos. What we especially liked about her were the following points (and we've had experience with multiple photographers in the past): 1. Great communication. From the first contact she was very communicative and responsive, respecting our wishes but also being very forthcoming with helpful suggestions and directions, e.g. wardrobe choice that goes well with autumn colors; at the beginning of the photoshoot she explained her style and how we can position ourselves with respect to one another to show a closer emotional connection in the pictures. 2. Good choice of location: she suggested a beautiful location off the beaten path, which allowed us to have our photo session undisturbed by passers-by and which formed a wonderfully colorful autumn backdrop for our pictures. 3. Skilflful control of lighting/color: she has a deep understanding of natural lighting and color, and how to capture the best lighting by timing the photo session well and picking spots where to position us. 4. Easy-going, friendly personality. Like other reviews said, from the beginning it's like meeting a very good friend, and you're just hanging out together having a good time. You're almost forgetting that you're being photographed, so no forced smiling on pictures--you're just being captured having a good time with your family and a new family friend. The joy shows in the pictures. 5. Great with children. Our toddler always tended to look grumpy/disaffected in previous photo sessions and we have come to accept he's not one to smile for the camera. Not with Paulina. Very few minutes in the photoshoot our toddler warmed up to Paulina's friendly, outgoing personality and glowing smile. He kept wanting to play with her and it's visible in all the pictures how he genuinely had a great time during the photoshoot. A tall order for a photoshoot with a toddler who is supposed to be in his terrible twos! 6. Good eye for detail and composition. She picks out details and moments and manages to capture the love and joy of our family with beautiful compositions. 7. Quick turnaround time for photos. We got our high quality processed pictures within a few days after the photoshoot, which we were very happy about. 8. Enthusiasm for capturing unique moments. This last point I find the rarest of qualities in Paulina that I believe is essential in a photographer. With other photographers we've had in the past, it's often noticeable that once they've captured the formulaic shot they wanted in their mind, they tend to be disinterested in shooting more photos in the same setting and urge you to move to a different scene to get their next formulaic shot (even when our toddler was spontaneously doing something supercute and in my mind I go "Dang, why didn't the photographer capture that?"). Not with Paulina. She went with the flow, and observed our natural interactions, and enthusiastically kept on capturing the unique moments along the way. So when our toddler became fascinated in playing with the autumn leaves and kept wanting to gift them to the adults, she captured the joyful expressions on his face while holding the leaves. It's these unique unscripted moments that were captured so adeptly that made our photoshoot especially memorable. All because of her enthusiasm to capture our precious moments, rather than just going for the next formulaic shot. In all, we were extremely happy to have her as our photographer, and can't wait to have her to do a newborn photo session with us as well.

It was the first time that we had had photos taken at home and we are so happy with how it all went and the end products. Paulina put us all at ease and is friendly, knowledgeable and professional. She is easy to contact and answered the many questions I had before and after the session. I would recommend Paulina to others and would definitely have her take our photos again.