Headshots

You’ll Love Pie Charts!

October 10, 2010

Detroit Michigan People Photography by Mary DuPrie So I totally got carried away on Skype tonight with Aurora V and missed my class reunion.  I didn’t remember until 11:30pm.   We both can gab.  First we start off typing with one another and then one of us figures out why don’t we just call!?  Dahh, […]

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Getting Kids to “Un-Model”

September 12, 2010
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Childrens Headshots In Detroit Mary DuPrie Getting kids to “un-model” can be quite a task.  Kids as well as adults have an idea of what modeling is.  I call it “vogueing” or better yet “face-booking”. Really trying too hard to model, over the top, stiff poses.  I want a very relaxed almost bored looked.  When […]

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Childrens Dance Headshots In Michigan

September 10, 2010
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Childrens Dance Headshots In Michigan by Mary DuPrie My affinity for shooting straight on serves me well when shooting headshots.  I love a model to look directly into my lens.  Not an easy task at all.  It looks quite simple but is actually quite difficult to do. Maddy is a talented dancer (another category of […]

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Photographing Kids Headshots

September 4, 2010
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Kids Headshots in Michigan Kids are great.  It’s a wonderful change of pace at the studio.  I had two young sisters (about seven and nine) today and it was interesting to watch the younger sister study the older.  The girls were having a great day, having their hair done then going to lunch with mom. […]

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Fun Experience For The Day!

August 29, 2010
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Michigan Comp Card Photographers Mary DuPrie I’ve been a model photographer mostly with an occasional commercial job thrown in.  The problem with that scenario is that your livelihood is in the hands of just a few people.  If those people move on for whatever reasons or you fall out of favor you’re screwed.  The agency […]

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Children’s Headshots

August 17, 2010

Childrens Headshots in Michigan I had a phone call last week from a potential client asking  if I photographed children…hummm.  It made me take a look at my website with a critical eye towards children.  I only had one image of a child.  I can definitely see why she asked. I added a children’s  category […]

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She Looks Like An Angel

August 13, 2010
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I first handled the Canon 85 1.2 when an attendee brought one to my workshop a couple of years ago.  I have to say I lusted after it.  It was heavy but in just the right way, balanced beautifully.  I use the lens every chance I get. This beauty headshot of Karolina was simply shot […]

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I Love Headshots

August 11, 2010
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Larry Peters, Actor As everyone might know by now, Detroit has been given a business boom with the film industry now in town.  It’s been great for a lot of business owners here in Michigan.  There was a booming business years ago and it’s been quiet up until now.   Actors that haven’t been doing […]

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