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Modeling Headshots

January 27th, 2010 No comments

Stewart Photography now does acting headshots  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 resulting head shots.  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 model headshot photography 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.

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Cookbook Food Photography

December 2nd, 2009 No comments

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.

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Photographic Subject Matter

November 2nd, 2009 No comments
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The keys to making good photography is to get the camera in front of something interesting.  Putting the camera  in an interesting place or looking closely at something of interest usually makes good pictures.  I try to find clients can get me in front of something worthy of  photographing.  If the product, person, or place isn’t of interest to the intended viewer, then there’s only so much I can do to make a successful photograph.  “It is what it is; I just take pictures of it.”  My job as a photographer is to recognize the qualities of a subject that are the most intriguing and focus on those qualities.

Find good subject matter for photographs has been the driving force in my life.  It drives almost everything I do, including having two kids.  I told my wife that I wanted kids so that I would have someone to play with, but the truth is I needed portrait subjects.

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2009 FotoWeekDC

October 23rd, 2009 No comments
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I’m speaking at FotoWeekDC.  The firemen image will  be displayed on posters around town at Foto Week  and in a slide show.

HDR Multi-Image Photography with Michael Stewart

Saturday, Nov 7  at 12 Noon
3338 M Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20007

The traditional laws of photography no longer apply;  see how computational photography  extends exposure range,  depth of field and angle of view.  Take a closer look at HDR, Focus Stacking, and Image Stitching.  Including simple Photoshop techniques and programs like Photomatix, Helicon Focus  and PT Gui.

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Alicia’s Studio Portrait

June 17th, 2009 No comments
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This portrait of Alicia Thurston was made to advertise her morning talk show.  It’s a show for lawyers which airs in spanish.  Alicia is fun, fresh  and entertaining, so the directors wanted to use bright colors to portray her in this way.  It’s not your average legal talk show.

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