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We want your PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS,

not your money.

-Photographer, Michael Stewart

Washington Dulles international Airport (IAD) has a new people mover system called the AeroTrain.  The system utilizes 29 Mitsubishi Crystal Movers.  Last week we photographed the AeroTrains for Mitsubishi.  The Aerotrain is a welcome addition to Dulles Airport.  As a photographer I travel frequently with lots of heavy bags of camera gear, so I appreciate riding on a shuttle train instead of walking.

Unfortunately, there was still too much snow on the ground to do any outdoor photography.  It was a real rush to get the trains lined up in the maitenance facility before they went into service for the day.  I hope to go back and shoot the trains in motion with some planes in the background.  I love doing this kind of industrial photography of planes, trains and automobiles; most photographers like big shiny stuff that moves fast.

Nothing Fancy; that’s us on the way out to dinner.  Lynne, Michael, Carson (7), Barrett (9).

I took the picture, on a timer. ..lighting was set for one dude.

I’m frequently asked to create architectural and real estate virtual tours .  These are a very interesting form of architectural photography. I’ve been generating these virtual tours for the Virginia real estate  industry since the mid 90′s.  My  proprietary process for creating virtual tours is complicated, but it yields a very high quality virtual tour.  Each VR tour image starts with 25 fisheye exposures which are processed through a series of 5 programs to generate a single virtual tour image.  Once merged and stitched the resulting 360 degree panoramic image can be displayed in a number of  ways: Quicktime VR, IPIX, Flash and Java are the most popular.  IPIX virtual tours are used by many real estate companies.  Below is a Quicktime VR version of the above flat image. This image is from a Virginia virtual tour  of a model home done recently for a Virginia home builder.

Stewart Photography now does acting and modeling headshots in our Herndon, Va Studio (Studio 76).  In the past we’ve turned these jobs away, but I’ve really enjoyed doing these lately and I’m happy with the resulting images.  It’s refreshing to do a little work that’s not “guys in ties” or other business portraits, so I want to promote these portrait photography services.  It’s difficult to do a really good single portrait at an affordable price for an individual starting out in modeling or acting.  Ideally a makeup artist would be on set, but this added expense is hard to justify when your just starting out in acting or putting together a modeling portfolio.

We are offering two packages for modeling and acting head shot photography:

HEADSHOT: A headshot is $385 for the portrait session in our Herndon Virginia Studio.  This includes changes of wardrobe as necessary to get one spectacular portrait, but it’s head and shoulders only.

COMPOSITE CARD: This $685 package includes three looks that are radically different from each other. The package is designed to be laid out as a group of photographs for a modeling comp card.  We also offer layout of the modeling comp cards for an additional $160 and can submit the  final product to Washington DC’s top modeling agencies for $80.

These prices are for Personal Promotion only.  Head shots for commercial advertising purposes may be priced according to usage.

We also do free model testing on ocassion, so send us a JPEG image and we will keep you on file. Model testing is our way of trying out new photography techniques and equipment before we bring them out on assignment.  Model testing is play time and sometimes yields the very best photography.

Nile Style: Egyptian Cuisine and Culture has won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best Arab cookbook . Stewart Photography produced the food photography and a portrait of the lovely and talented author,  Amy Riolo.  We congratulate Amy on winning this award  for her wonderful cookbook.