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 […]
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 […]
CASUAL HEADSHOTS OF AWARD-WINNING FREELANCE WRITER
Photographing casual headhsots of an award-winning writer As an editorial photographer, I get to work and meet some interesting and amazing people. And not just people directly involved during editorial photography session. But also, people who do heavy lifting behind the scenes: art directors, writers, other freelancers, etc. In 2016 and 2017 I had a […]
7 Key Differences Between Headshot and Portrait
In article below, I’ll briefly discuss several key differences between headshot photography and portrait photography. I will also include some photo examples from my portrait and headshot images from my archives. I hope this guide will help you to learn more about differences between headshots vs. portraits and learn what suits your needs best. 1. […]
BUSINESS PORTRAIT OF MADISON POLICE CHIEF
Photographing Business Portrait Of Police Chief Mike Koval I’m sitting in a small room with two doors. I entered the room via the one on the right. The one on the left one has sign. Sign says had “Restricted access”. I’ve been staring at the “Restricted access” sign latter for about 10-15 minutes now. Suddenly, […]
TRAINS, MILKWEED, LITTLE PEOPLE AND OTHER MIRACLES OF FALL
TRAINS, MILKWEED, LITTLE PEOPLE AND OTHER MIRACLES OF FALL Fall is my favorite time of the year. Partly because I finally can spend more time with my family after a busy editorial and wedding photography season. But also because of tranquility. Long walks. That damn delicious fresh air in my lungs. And definitely fair amount […]
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 […]
ONLINE FARMER’S MARKET | PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHER MADISON WI
For one of my recent work projects I did some product photography for Madison WI based online farmer’s market with home delivery for local food called Square Harvest. Square Harvest online farmer’s market store is scheduled to fully launch in April 2015 and will feature a wide selection of produce, meats, fish, dairy and eggs. […]
ISTHMUS FOOD ASSIGNMENT | MAD CITY FRITES POUTINE + TEDDYWEDGERS
MAD CITY FRITES POUTINE AND TEDDYWEDGERS So yesterday I got a new assignment from Carolyn, art director at Isthmus. This time I had two stops. Both very conveniently located with three blocks on State Street. I put Teddywedgers and Mad City Frites on my stop list. After a nice 30minutes winter walk I meet Anthony […]
MADISON MAGAZINE: SANDWICH FEST | SHOOTING MAGAZINE COVER
SANDWICH FEST: SHOOTING MAGAZINE COVER I’ve been photographing a lot of food lately. Maybe because food and winter go well. Maybe its because my food photography network did increase exponentially. Maybe a little bit of both. (: One of the bigger recent assignments was an article called “Sandwich Fest” with 9 sandwiches from 9 different restaurants […]
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 […]
PUBLISHED IN “FOOD AND WINE” MAGAZINE!!! | PROFESSIONAL FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY
PROFESSIONAL FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY by PAULIUS MUSTEIKIS So here comes good news from Food and Wine magazine. One of the images of pig skull nicely decorated with escargots+ fried headcheese I took while ago for Heritage Tavern made it through editorial selection and got published in 2014 July’s issue. Original Blog post of my that talks about this particular […]
SHORT SUMMER NIGHTS | KODAK EKTAR 100 LIGHTROOM PRESET
So I just picked up couple galleries from last year’s summer. Couple of those that hibernated on temporary backup hard drive and afterwards went straight to storage drive. It happens a lot. Life. Family. Responsibilities. Laziness. Work. One things get all the attentions and others get thrown into dark corner. At least for a while. […]
PIG FARM WRESTLING
So that Sunday bunch of food people from Madison, WI came together to help out Dan Fox with movie production for 2nd SloPig event. Meeting took a part in private farm in Blue Mounds, WI. Q: What do you get when you mix together bunch of food industry people, few cases of PBR, some creative […]