Karen DB Photography

Mililani, United States

5

11 reviews

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+1 808-990-5559
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www.karendbphotography.com
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Serving Mililani and surrounding area
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Voted as 2013, 2014, and 2015 Honolulu Family Magazine’s Best Child Photographer!

Specializes in…

Portraits for children of all ages, families, senior portraits, maternity, and newborns.

Portfolio work for children’s, teen’s, and adult’s head shots, and zed card photos.

Beautiful candid photos, and/​or photobooth services for events, such as, birthday parties, weddings, graduations, and company events.

Meet the Business Owner

Karen D.

Business Owner

Hello! My name is Karen De Borja!

I am the very proud mother of three beautiful little girls.

And a new baby boy! (finally! yey!).

and very blessed to be married to my best friend whom I met when I was just 12 years old!

I have always loved photography since I was just a little girl.

It always fascinated me how a moment in time can be captured forever!

My family is my main inspiration for my photography.

They just grow so fast that I feel as their mom, visually documenting their precious moments in life, will somehow, someway, help me hold on just a little bit longer!

I think there is SO much beauty in every corner of the world, and i can hear it saying «Take a picture of me!».

(or it’s probably my little girls i’m hearing!).

I have been very blessed to have met such amazing people and had the honor to capture once in a lifetime moments for them! For those people, I will forever be thankful! Thank you!

i love God…

i love my family…

i love life…

and i love photography!

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11 reviews of Karen DB Photography

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Place rating: 5
Eagle River, AK
Karen is absolutely amazing to work with. She was able to pose my 3 and 5 year old perfectly. She had very creative ideas for our shoot and was completely open to our ideas as well. In the end we ended up with a ton of beautiful images. We would book her again in a heart beat.
Place rating: 5
Honolulu, HI
This is our second year using Karen for our photos and she nails it each time! She brings out the best in my kids and is able to capture the essence of their personalities in her photos. She is so sweet and such a pleasure to work with too!
Place rating: 5
Kailua, HI
Karen does an excellent job. i used her for my professional photos which will be published in the Honolulu Magazine. She accommodated my schedule and was able to meet me at my desired location on time. She was very professional and has a great eye for what backgrounds and poses will work. I’m not a natural, but the photos came out top notch and I was use her again without hesitation.
Place rating: 5
Honolulu, HI
We can’t say enough wonderful things about Karen. If I needed to focus on one truly special aspect of her work, it’s her unbelievable connection with children. She is able to take otherwise shy kids and make them shine in front of the camera. She has such a wonderful and positive personality that kids just immediately open up and act like themselves. The hidden sides of their personalities that make your kids unique truly come out in her photographs. She is such a pleasure to work with and if I could give her more than five stars, I would!
Place rating: 5
Honolulu, HI
Karen is simply the best! From the very beginning, she was very responsive to my inquiries and made it easy to coordinate and book our photo session with her. I knew she was the right photographer for us. I had an idea of the type of settings/​backgrounds that I wanted and she knew exactly where to go to capture the look that I was going for. She was professional and sweet and was so easy to work with. Everyone in my family loved her and felt so comfortable hanging out with her. Karen has a way with children. She was patient, kind and gentle with my son who does not like taking pictures, but he didn’t mind at all being with Karen and was even suggesting different outfits and backgrounds in which to take his picture! Needless to say, she gave me exactly was I looking for and it was an absolute pleasure meeting and working with Karen. I finally found the perfect photographer for our family.
Place rating: 5
Lompoc, CA
I was on island visiting my mom and we were looking for a photographer in Mililani because we didn’t want to go to Glamour Shots again, wanted do an outdoor shoot and we were crunched for time so we needed to stay close to home. We are SO greatfull to have found Karen. The site was literally a block away from my moms house and we were lucky to have great weather.
Karen was very fun, easy going and professional. She gave easy directions for photos and was very interested in what type of photos we wanted. We gave her free range to do any style and we are NOT disappointed. We are very happy with our pics, so much so that my mom already did another shoot with my grandmother and aunt at the same location. We are anxious to see those photos and can’t wait to get our final prints from out first shoot.
If you are looking for a reasonable, easy going, top notch photographer on island you love Karen.
Place rating: 5
Waipahu, HI
I had Karen take my newborn picture for my youngest son. She is a great, awesome, professional photographer. She is very patient. She knew what to do when my son was getting fussy. She would do other poses to make him feel comfortable. When we received the pictures, everything turned out awesome. It was hard to pick which one I wanted because she captured everything. She is a GREAT photographer and i would recommend her to anyone.
Place rating: 5
Kapolei, HI
Karen DB Photography is AWESOME!!! Went to Karen for our family’s first christmas photos and she was such a pleasure to work with. My 11 month daughter normally shies away from strangers and is usually crying her head off when we take her to the local photo studio for her monthly pictures, we warned Karen about it and wished her good luck. But Karen took the time to get my baby girl comfortable and was actually able to get a photo of her smiling. She also got my husband to smile naturally, which he doesn’t normally do in pictures (including our wedding photos). Will definitely be working with Karen again, next up my daughter’s cake smash photo session for her first birthday.
Place rating: 5
Ewa Beach, HI
Best photographer I have worked with! Karen is easy going and easy to work with. I love her pictures and ideas. She’s very creative and reasonable. Theres never a dull moment with her. I love her energh and determination to get the winning shot. I will most definitely work with Karen again.
Place rating: 5
Honolulu, HI
I took my high school graduation pictures with her. Amazing photos were taken. I like the fact that pictures came out very natural. I didn’t look awkward or smiling like robots how school pictures will show up on yearbooks. I especially loved my cap and gown pictures. I enjoyed the photo session with Karen because she also seem to enjoy working. I was able to pose many different poses as she directs me. She is very creative when it comes to posing for the photos.
Overall, quality of the pictures that you will be taken from Karen will be the pictures that you want to hang on the walls. Well that’s what my grandpa did with my graduation pictures ^_^
Place rating: 5
Wahiawā, HI
Hands down I would trust Karen with all of our family’s photography needs! I love the way she thinks outside the box and catches her subjects being natural and not the cheesy, fake poses other places are known for! She has true talent as a photographer and tells stories with her art!