Sara Hertel Photography

Great 4.8(16)
Great value
  • 17 hires
  • Based in Oregon City, OR
  • 27 years in business
  • 1 employee
  • Background checked

About Sara Hertel Photography

Restoration: Photos are irreplaceable treasures...So are families. For 25 years, I have had the honor of repairing precious relics with the utmost care they deserve. The joy that comes from helping my clients rescue a part of their family history is indescribable. Photography: In describing her art, Sara Hertel says, "My work is a reaction to beauty; The less obvious the beauty, the greater my captivation. It's my aim to sneak up on the world-- to quietly capture what is real and true." It is with this appreciation for authenticity that Sara archives the intrinsic elements of her subjects and events. Her work seeks to evoke emotion by capturing the subtleties of her surroundings organically. Sara is a native of Portland, Oregon. Her work has been exhibited in multi-format installations and published internationally. She concentrates in music industry publicity, freestyle portraiture, and gritty street photography.

Reviews

Janeen B.May 2026

Sarah was able to restore several creased, crumbling and fading old photographs into photos that looked like they were just taken! She was incredibly professional, kind, listened carefully and delivered beyond my hopes! I never thought the photos could be saved, and that that families’ history would be lost, but I was so pleased at the final outcome. She is incredible, very reasonably priced and quick to deliver the final product. I highly recommend her work!

Leisa F.Dec 2025

Though it's been some years now, I am still pained by the fact that she lost some of my most treasured originals.. All I now have are very shoddy copied pictures.

Ava H.Jan 2025

Sara communicated very clearly what she would be able to do and her reasonable cost estimate. And she lives in Oregon, my home state.

AJ M.Dec 2020

Sara was great to work with! Very friendly and Professional. Punctual, which is important in a time crunch. It made my “one last project” so easy to accomplish. I couldn’t be happier!

Brenda H.Sep 2020

Responded quickly. Reasonable price. Done in one day

Robert b.Aug 2020

Sara is an outstanding professional. She digitized over 100 years of family photos and portrait photos. We gave her the photos organized in a do zen shoe boxes and in a week got our pictures back. In another week or two we picked up the zThumb-drive with 5-6 copies (4 our kids) Everything was done by drop off, phone, email and text. Perfect for COVID 19. Throughout Sara was great to work with: friendly Considerate. Professional Knowledgeable Capable organized and she exceeded our expectation. I recommend her without hesitation . We are thrilled with the results ( a TEN).

Teresa H.Sep 2019

She was wonderful. My mom passed away and my dad wanted a old picture of her restored. She did a amazing job.

Cynthia B.Aug 2019

Sara was great!

Gerald G.May 2019

The quality of her work was superb considering the original picture I loaned her to fix was really damaged. Other vendor had turned down the job. The cost was very reasonable to me. I was expecting it to cost even a lot higher. And she did the work in just a few days.

Jennifer h.Mar 2019

So far things are very good

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