HOW TO ROCK YOUR HIGH-SCHOOL SENIOR PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY SESSION

Hey there, soon-to-be grads! Senior year is the year, isn’t it? Full of “lasts” but also a lot of “firsts,” including your senior portrait session. And with a fresh later summer and early fall weather rolling in (here in Madison, Wisconsin as well as the rest of Midwest), the pressure is on! If you’re wondering […]
PLANNING YOUR COMPANY’S CORPORATE HEADSHOTS PART 1: PICKING RIGHT LOCATION AND BACKGROUND

CORPORATE HEADSHOT LOCATION AND BACKGROUND: SINGLE-COLOR BACKDROP VS OFFICE ENVIRONMENTAL VS OUTDOORS ENVIRONMENTAL My professional corporate headshots are bold and straightforward. They tell the viewer, “Hey, this is what I look like. I am confident, approachable, and professional.” But like anything else, you can refine the message. One way to do that is to determine […]
10 QUICK TIPS ON HOW TO PREPARE AND LOOK BETTER IN BUSINESS HEADSHOTS AND PORTRAITS

PREPARING FOR YOUR BUSINESS HEADSHOT AND PORTRAIT SESSION After nearly a decade of working with people and photographing business headshots and portraits, I’ve found that I need to tell my clients many of the same things to prepare them for their sessions. So here is a quick break down of the topics I feel will […]
PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO FOR RENT IN MADISON WI

PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO FOR RENT IN MADISON WI UPDATE: STUDIO IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR RENT PLEASE CHECK OUT STUDIO 54 AT HINCKLEY PRODUCTIONS INSTEAD Photography studio conveniently located near East side of Downtown Madison WI, about mile away from Wisconsin State Capitol. While photography studio is occupied and used by its resident photographers on a daily […]
HOW MARRIOTT REWARDS CONCIERGE TEAM ROCKED LAMBEAU FIELD

When event coordinators from IMG Live (an Atlanta, GA based experiential marketing company with award-winning strategy) reached out to me late last fall I had no idea who they are nor what they do. Even after talking to them and learning about the company and corporate event that had to photograph I still had no […]
EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS- PART 1 :: FAST BIKES+SMALL CAMERAS

EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS by PAULIUS MUSTEIKIS I am minimalist in life and that fact influences my photography work a lot. You rarely will see me using more than two lights. I believe keeping it all simple let’s me concentrate on my subject rather than the worry about gear. It frees me and let’s me breath. […]
FACES OF BRC 2015 | BURNING MAN PORTRAITS

This year before the event I had an arrangement with few wedding couples that found me via Spark website. I’ve done wedding photography in Playa before. But when putting together ideas about Playa’s personal photo project this year, I decided to take a bit different approach. I wanted to skip conventional approach of Playa art/ […]
MADISON CLUB EMPLOYEE HOLIDAY PARTY PHOTOGRAPHY @ BISHOPS BAY

EMPLOYEE HOLIDAY PARTY PHOTOGRAPHY by PAULIUS MUSTEIKIS It’s 2015 and we just opened up new season for our photo booth here in Madison, WI! Everybody knows photo booths are fun. That’s a scientifically proven fact. Our photo booths happened before and they will happen again in the future! We say there is nothing wrong with […]
I (HEART) FILM | MEDIUM FORMAT TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY

For the recent road trip that to Vermont, North Coast Maine and Canada I left my Nikon’s and Fuji’s at home. This time without too much hesitation I grabbed handful of 120mm Kodak Portra 400 and decided to use my medium format Yashica Mat 124G for medium format travel photography. After extensively using DSLR for […]