April 2010

Michigan Photography Workshops

April 19, 2010
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Model Photography Workshops Mary DuPrie I’ll be shooting and speaking on model photography with three other lovely ladies at Essentials for Women. My talk will be centered around model movement versus posing. Agency preferences and testing for the industry. It’s being held again at the beautiful Inn at Bay Harbor. Please go to Essentials for […]

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Michigan Glamour Photography

April 17, 2010
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Bloomfield Hills Portrait Photographers Mary DuPrie The first image of Carly is the most requested makeup that Tammy Pore is asked for from brides and the featured image on her website.  But when she does it like that they want it tweaked, she’s confused.  I mentioned they don’t mean it literally, they just love how […]

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Michigan Bridal Photography

April 16, 2010
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Detroit Michigan Portrait Photographers Mary DuPrie So i’ve been working with makeup artists for the last couple of years which has been eye opening.  Not for me, but for them.  The makeup artists who were contacting me thru model mayhem were just not understanding what makes a good makeup artists book. What and how do […]

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Michigan Plus Size Photographers

April 15, 2010
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Detroit Michigan Comp Card Photographers Mary DuPrie There is some confusion out there being perpetrated by some “agencies.”  They are not really agencies in my eyes in that they require an upfront fee.  We have a local one here that charges $500. to join and a monthly internet fee of about $40.  Numerous people have […]

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Michigan Commercial Photography

April 14, 2010
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Detroit Michigan Commercial Photographers Mary DuPrie I’m often asked “How can I make money shooting models?” I’ve listed a few questions I would ask… what part of the country are you in do you have a studio, do you need a studio are there agencies where you are is there a market what kind of […]

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Detroit Glamour Photography

April 12, 2010
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Detroit Michigan Lifestyle Photographers Mary DuPrie One of the highlights this year was taking the new headshots for our local television station WWJ-TV CBS Detroit.  They requested formals and a look of hipper horizontal web images.  I dutched quite a bit and shot at f.4 to really throw the background out.  For executive type headshots […]

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Detroit Michigan Glamour Photographers

April 11, 2010
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Detroit Michigan Comp Card Photographers Mary DuPrie Well I thought I would give computer hell a rest for now and just do a tech post, yeah!  We all love those. The behind the scenes pic breaks down like this, working from the inside out. The black panels are black Venitian Plaster troweled on a piece […]

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Michigan Glamour Photographers

April 10, 2010
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  Detroit Michigan Glamour Photographers Mary DuPrie I’ve been stuck in some major computer hell lately.  Working on this blog has been way more work than I planned on.  I purchased a theme called Thesis which I didn’t understand what I was buying or how it all works.  I took the advice of a good […]

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