Gift Certifcate Sale

The holidays are the perfect time to purchase gift cards and certificates for the ones you love.

From now until December 23rd you can save up to 40% on portrait gift certificates.

$100 GC can be purchased for $80
$250 GC can be purchased for $175
$500 GC can be purchased for $300
(not valid with any other sales or discounts)

The Importantance of a Family Portrait

One of the most special gifts you can give your family is a portrait. Family portraits create a photographic history for future generations.

Child psychotherapist and author, Stephanie Marston, says that having family portraits displayed in your home, reinforces your child's self image and self confidence. It also has a very positive impact on your child's perception of family and it's importance.

We'd like to extend an invitation to you and your family.

Have your family portrait created before December 21st and your studio session fee is on us.

That's a $150. value absolutely free!

Don't Delay...

We will only be accepting 20 family portrait commissions during this sale.

Call 248-560-3100 or email send us an email for your reservation.

Website Updating

A little bit of knowledge can be dangerous. It can be a lot of fun as well.

I've been playing around with the code on our website, trying to update the information and make in Search Engine friendly.

While I was dabbling, I almost crashed our site but quickly realized that the index page was moved to the wrong area of the site (WHEW!)

Anyway, I updated the Photographers Resources page. Have a look and tell me what you think.

Thanks!

Sara and Geoff

Sarah and Geoff were married at the Somerset Inn a couple of weeks ago. The venue was lovely and Hollye Mackler did a great job on the flowers as usual.

Sara wore her grandmothers wedding dress - which is absolutely awesome!

Introducing a striking new way to display fine art, portraits and wedding images

We are offering a new and exciting product for you in 2010.

Metal Mural technology reproduces our high quality imagery on metal in a modular design, perfect for reproducing art, portraits, wedding photos and more on a durable, scratch resistant metal.

Metal Murals are available in 12”, 9” or 6” metal squares that are assembled for easy wall mounting and other display applications. Metal Mural printing allows you to display your images on the metal media while preserving true color and resolution of the image. Metal Mural size is limited only by the size of your display area and your imagination.

Prices for a large (12 inch tile) mural starting at $450.

The Express Fundamentals Collection ~ It’s all about you.

A brand new package designed to stretch your Bar/Bat Mitzvah budget further.

• You want photography that is professional
• You want to look your best at your event
• You want to have fun and not worry about your photographer
• You want value
• You want your finished album in less time than most studios take to deliver previews.
• You want David M Deutsch, Master of Photography to capture every priceless moment which makes up your wedding or mitzvah celebration.

We’ve listened to you and removed some of the more costly add-ons from our traditional Event Collections and designed an economical alternative for every quality conscious person.

If you are planning a wedding or bar mitzvah for 2010, this new package can save you thousands of dollars!

The Express Collection for 2010 ~ $2010. (plus tax)

Includes: Up to six hours of continuous coverage by a professional photographer and assistant

An artistically designed leather or canvas covered premium photographic album with 80 images

Online image viewing gallery for 21 days

BONUS

As an added bonus: Reserve your date by November 30, 2009 and you will also receive additional location coverage (at the Synagogue or Temple) and one soft covered duplicate Mini-Book of your main album. ~Call for more details. Restrictions apply. New contracts only.

Lexie Gives Us The "Thumbs Up"

It's always a great feeling when your clients appreciate you.

We had a very cold portrait session with Lexie and McKenzie at the Orchard Lake Country Club a couple of weeks ago. But both girls we're really good sports about the chilly temperatures and allowed us to come up with some really pretty portraits.

We always love hearing from Rob and Mary Beth, and love photographing the girls. Their personalities are something that.... well, you must experience for yourself. She is really a character and her sister, McKenzie is just the cutest little fire ball.

A career as a professional photographer is very rewarding. Now that I have the official "thumbs up" from Lexie - All is good in the word. Seriously, It was hard to hold my camera still after that image. It was truly hilarious!

Zack Roschak - Brother Rice

I've been photographing Zack since - well forever! As memory serves, almost every portrait session we've done for him has been outdoors.

So, when it came to having his senior portraits created, he (and his mom) chose to do a combination of indoor and out, while the weather was still nice enough to allow us to do so.

Photographing in the Fall is really awesome. It can be a bit chilly, but the portraits are cool! (OK ~ Pun intended) :)

Jake Winicki - Brother Rice

Check out these awesome images from Jake's senior portrait session. I'm sure that most of Jake's friends thought that hey would have to settle for the run of the mill senior pictures.

Wait until Jake's friends get a load of his awesome senior portraits!

These are only a few of the best senior pictures you will find anywhere!

Enjoy.

Class of Twenty10 ~ October Savings

Now that school is back in full swing, you've probably spent all your money on new clothes and the coolest new I-phone or Blackberry. That didn't leave much for those senior portraits you've been putting off until now, did it?

Here's a way you can still get quality senior portraits and save a little money in the process.

The Deutsch "ESP" (Economic Stimulus Plan- You knew that, right?) for high school seniors. Our total Plan only costs $550.

Here's how it works:You pay $100 to reserve your session.We'll spend 45 minutes photographing you in up to 2 outfits.

You get 5 Gift Selections (8x10 or 2-5x7) and 48 wallets.

You'll see and order your portraits at "view and choose", image presentation appointment.

You get your finished portraits back in 3-4 weeks. We can even make a yearbook photo and have it in time to meet most deadlines!

Give us a call for more details. 248-560-3100

Creating a Family Legacy

Family portraits capture the love, the relationships and the feelings that we share with one another. It is something that may seem costly at first but families that take the time and invest in professional portraits create a legacy for themselves and for future generations.

As time goes by and one year slips into the next, I realize how important it is to look back on old family portraits. I am comforted by seeing the beautiful images of my family members who are no longer with us. Fortunately for me, my family took the time to create that legacy... that memory.

You never can tell what the future holds. The time to create your family legacy is now.

During the month of October, we are offering specially priced portrait packages for anyone who would like to create a legacy of their own. These exclusive portrait packages represent a substantial savings over our regular portraits.


Mention this post to receive up to an additional 25% off selected "Creating a Legacy" portrait collections.

Call now 248-560-3100 or email a note with Creating a Legacy in the subject line. Don't wait until it's too late.

I Do

September 19, 2004 was a day not unlike today. The sun was shining and there was brisk breeze blowing as we prepared to publicly join as husband and wife.

There was excitement in the air. I can close my eyes and think about the day and all of the events like it were yesterday. Still, memory begins to fade as time marches on.

I'm so excited and blessed to do what I do (Photography). I am able to capture joyous events and milestones in the lives of our clients and friends. This has become even more "real" to me after looking through our wedding images five years later.

I was able to relive all the joy and happiness that we shared with our family and friends. But most importantly, I remembered the love that I felt for my beautiful bride.

This post is dedicated to you Tammi. I love you more today than I did 5 years ago. If I was asked the question again today, to have you and to hold you from this day forward, my answer would be an emphatic "I DO".

I love you honey.Happy anniversary

Radhika Gutta - Grand Blanc High School

Another successful, artistic senior portrait session for Radhika. She came all the way from Grand Blanc to have her portraits created here.
How cool is that?

Lauren Sankiewicz -Plymouth Christian Academy

Lauren's portraits are soooo cool! Take a look and see what you think. I think they're awesome!!

Check out Lauren's slide show here:

Mickey McNeece - North Farmington High School

Click the play button to see Mickey's Rockin slide show.

Personal Assignment

As many of you know, my mother in law (Tammi's mom) is in the final days of her battle with cancer.

A few days ago I felt compelled to document the effects of his horrific disease and the toll it takes, not only on its victim, but also that of their loved ones.

I drove Tammi to her sister's house where my mother in law is living her final days on earth. I felt a little funny photographing her but as she was surrounded buy her loved ones, the uneasiness soon faded. As mom (Diane) was being comforted and touched and kissed by her daughters, I knew somehow in some strange way, that what I was doing would help my family eventually get through the grieving process.

I captured some more images this morning. Oddly enough for me, I hadn't looked at any of them until today. I usually scroll through the images on the back of my camera right after I'm done photographing. I didn't this time. Why? I don't know.

What is to become of these images? I don't know that either. Part of me wants to post them and make them public. Part of me wants them to remain private. -The Jury is still out.

I can say this. I think there are some powerful images in there and maybe... just maybe, I have come close to making a difference in this world using the gift I have been given.

~Perhaps I have created a living legacy.

Please leave Tammi (Gabrielle) your thoughts on her Facebook page. I'm sure she will love to hear from you.

Michael Coyle - Cranbrook

I love watching families that we have been photographing forever, grow up.

Michael is another one those people we've been photographing since he was a baby.

We decided to create his senior portraits at Governor's Mansion in Farmington Hills. The same place we created His sister Julia's portraits last year.

What a great day for photography! Mid 70's low humidity; is this Michigan??

Anyway I love the way we're were able to use the architecture and manipulate the lighting for some really cool images for Michael!

...Should this guy be modeling, or what?

Repost- The importance of hiring a professional

Found this article on Andrea Solomon's blog.
Worth reading:)

http://andreasolomon.blogspot.com/2009/08/importance-of-hiring-professional.html

Lindsey and Assaf

We had the pleasure of photographing the wedding of Lindsey and Assaf last Sunday. It was an absolutely gorgeous day... not to be matched by the gorgeous couple!

I've known and have been photographing Lindsey her entire life so it was very special for me to share in her marriage to Assaf. Together they are just so darn cute.

We worked with Alex Bitoff and his crew from Fifth and Main Productions who produced an awesome on the fly video recap. Also present was Dee Dee Hoffman, Gerychs Flowers, Paul Kohn Catering and of course the Simone Vitale Band.

Click here to see the video recap from the wedding.

Click here to see a short clip of us in action.

Nice Article in JN

The Detroit Jewish News did a very nice article about the five studios this week.

We are a group of like minded professional photographers dedicated to the art of image making.

See it here
page 2

Studio Lighting in Small Spaces

Many of my students ask me about creating a camera room in their homes. It seems that the main concern is space, or more accurately, the lack thereof.

I was at Botsford Hospital this morning creating head and shoulder portraits for the incoming "First Year Residents"(Oh, side note... I have been told that if you get sick and need to go to the hospital, this may not be the best time to do it... see "first year" title.)

The space I set up my camera room in was a hallway just outside the meeting room. It was roughly 12 feet wide and I could back up about 10-12 feet. Even with the space limitations, I was still able to set up my Larson 4x6 soffbox. In my opinion, it's one of the finest light modifiers available.

Leila's Sr. Portraits

Ok, so I haven't written anything in ....well, forever ;). I'll try to make up for it now.

We decided to postpone Leila's portrait session from last Saturday to Sunday due to all the rain we had. I'm glad that we did!

We met Leila an Sonia (Her mom) at the Cranbrook House in Bloomfield Hills. We created a bunch of images on the grounds of the house as well as in the garden behind Kingswood school.

Now, mind you... I have been photographing Leila her whole life. When she was a year old she cried like a baby during the session (pun intended). Mom was sooooo happy that she didn't give us a repeat performance this time!! :)

Enjoy a few images from Leila's session.

Prepping

I just found out that our GLIP (Great Lakes Institute of Photography) is full. That's pretty awesome news considering some classes were cancelled due to lack of turn out.

So as the count down to school draws near, I find myself freaking out trying to get a whole load of work done before I leave for the week. Unfortunately my "studio" work screeches to a halt when I am away teaching.

So, today will be a day of production, new slide preparation, CD/DVD burning and getting equipment ready. And that's just this morning!! :)

Gotta go get to it!
See ya!

More Image Enhancing Techiniques

Check out this video to learn how simple it is to achieve the look in these images.

Making your pictures look like photographs

I came up with a set of actions for Photoshop to help speed up our production time by automating repetitive tasks.

One of the elements included in the action "set" is a method to quickly enhance an average looking capture ~ I'm talking about the image as it comes right out of the camera, not the subject matter.

Many of the actions included in the "Deutsch Production Actions" set deal with cropping and resizing images and preparing them for upload to your lab, while others focus on enhancing your portrait and wedding images.

Click on the image to see the larger resolution before and after image. Then watch he video to see how easily this picture was transformed in to a beautiful photograph.



So easy, even cave man.....ah never mind;) Enjoy! ~ Oh, by the way, see my signature at the bottom? That was created with another action that's included in the set :)

Economic Stimulus Plan

Are you tired of waiting for the economic stimulus plan to kick in? Well, we have the answer!!

Introducing the Deutsch "ESP" (Economic Stimulus Plan- You knew that, right?)for high school seniors.

Our Plan only costs $550.
Here's how it works:
You pay $100 to reserve your session.
We'll spend 45 minutes photographing you in up to 2 outfits.
You get 5 Gift Selections (8x10 or 2-5x7) and 48 wallets.
You'll see and order your portraits at "view and choose", image presentation appointment.

Give us a call for more details.

Creating a Legacy

When tragedy strikes a family, one of the first things people look for are photos of their loved ones.

Portraits capture the love, the relationships and the feelings that we share with one another. It is something that may seem costly at first but families that take the time and invest in professional portraits create a legacy for themselves and for future generations.

As time goes by and one year slips into the next, I realize how important it is to look back on old family portraits. I am comforted by seeing the beautiful images of my family members who are no longer with us. Fortunately for me, my family took the time to create that legacy... that memory.

You never can tell what the future holds. The time to create your family legacy is now.

We are offering specially priced portrait packages through the month of April for anyone who would like to create a legacy of their own.

~Yes. It's that important to me.

Mention this post to receive up to 50% off selected "Creating a Legacy" portrait collections.

Call now 248-560-3100 or email a note with Creating a Legacy in the subject line. Don't wait until it's too late.

Update on the copyright brush

Ok. I just learned something about Mac's today. Maybe that's why my brain hurts. In order to create the © symbol, you have to press option G while in the type (T) tool.

If you are working on a PC laptop that doesn't have a separate number pad on the right and you're forced to use those numbers at the top of the screen, it won't work either.

I will have to look at an old laptop to figure it out, but until then happy computing:)

Creating a custom brush in Photoshop

Spring Cleaning = SAVINGS

...and a rare opportunity for you!

Every year as we clean out our files, we gather all the previous year's negatives and digital materials and move them to our off site storage facility.

Needless to say, we are running out of space! So we have decided to offer them to you.

From now until April 1st you can purchase the digital files or negatives from any previously ordered session. A complete wedding is $300 and each portrait session is $75. Both include shipping. If you would like to take advantage of this offer, please email us at info@davidmdeutsch.com.

Hurry, the month is almost half over!

Senior Models for the Class of 2010 = Free Money!

We are currently look for Senior spokesmodels for the Class of 2010.

If you are an outgoing Junior, we would like you to help us so we can show off all our crazy new ideas for next year. The ideal candidate is socially active, in and out of school... AND ON FACEBOOK!

Each model session will be created between March 1st and April 30th. We will create model cards with a few of the images from your session for you to pass out to your friends. The rest will be posted in your gallery on Facebook.

Every model selected will be eligible for a FREE regular Senior Session that MUST be used anytime June through July. Any other sessions during your Senior year are 50% off. PLUS you can earn up to $25 for every one of your friends that turn in your model card when they are photographed!

What a great way to make money this summer without really doing anything more than talking to your friends. How awesome is that?

Call 248-560-3100 or send me a message on Facebook for more details.

PPM Competition Results

Well, I'm back from Lansing and I'm happy to report that my images did pretty well in the Professional Photographers of Michigan print competition.

My combined score for my top 4 prints was 346. That was the fifth highest score in the state.

My image of Dario Faruggia from Wyandotte High School scored a whopping 95 points! A bridal portrait of Ann Marie (Bailey) Moran scored 80. The image that I created outside the Luxor Hotel for My friend Jim Churchill scored 81.

I entered a couple of images that I created a GLIP last summer too. The image of Justyn that was captured on the campus of the college scored 87 and my composite of Anna Marie scored 83 (I think it was under scored).

I was happy to receive the following awards:
~The Professional Photographers of America CPP Award for the highest scoring image submitted by a Certified Professional Photographer.
~The Kodak Gallery Award, for Photographic Excellence in the portrait category.
~Court of Honor in the wedding category.
~Michigan Top Seven Master Photographer.

The next step is to enter the images in PPA's annual print competition to see if any of them will be accepted into the traveling Loan Collection. -Wish me luck :)