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Anniversary Month Equals April Studio Specials

dsmPhotoCompany Anniversary Month Deals!

April marks the anniversary for our studio and we’re offering 2 awesome deals to celebrate.  These specials end April 30th so contact us today at 515.440.1432!

50% off Product Credit

Thru April 30th, you can get 50% off product credit!  Meaning, you can spend up to $500 and get $1000 worth of product credit to our studio.  Product credits can be purchased in increments of $25 and up to $1000 worth of credit.  You can use product credits at any time and they can be used towards products from new or previous sessions.

This is a great opportunity to apply credit toward your new art album or the dynamic wall portrait you always wanted.

2014 Senior Portrait Session Special

When booking your session by April, you will get the entire “session fee” applied as a credit toward your products!  Your session can take place anytime this spring/summer/fall, just needs to be booked by April 30th for this special.  With this special, it’s perfect to apply towards your senior album or high definition metal wall print!

Give us a call today at 515.440.1432 to schedule your personal in-studio consultation appointment.

A jazzy senior portrait session with Jon

Marshalltown HS wouldn’t be the same without Jon – and neither would we after having the opportunity to photograph him. Jon’s very connected to his musical talents and we had a blast creating CD cover-like images for his senior portraits!

Thanks Jon, for jazzin’ up our studio – we had a groovy time!

Check out a few of his favorite images and be sure to watch the image video.

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dsmPhotoCompany Earns Prestigious Awards

Des Moines, IA — February 7th marked a big accomplishment for a downtown Des Moines studio. dsmPhotoCompany earned a pair of prestigious awards at the Professional Photographers of Iowa (PPI) formal banquet. Brian Stevens and Jeremy Orr, co-owners of dsmPhotoCompany, Inc., were each recognized as a “Top 10 Iowa Photographer” based on their print submissions in this year’s competition. The awards were determined by a combined score on 4 artistic prints each – a total of approximately 600 prints were entered by photographers across the state.

“We couldn’t be happier to receive this honor” stated Brian. “We hoped that one of us would finish near the top, the fact we both did just makes it twice as good.” He added, “It was great our beauty team was there to share and enjoy the special moment”. Erin Stevens and Megan Orr serve as the beauty stylists for the studio and their work led to award-winning submissions.

Jeremy couldn’t believe he and Brian’s names continued to be called throughout the night. “I’m still in shock. I knew our portrait art was of a high quality and we could compete with some of the best, I just wasn’t expecting us to be received so well”. Jeremy was mentored by Brian and through that their partnership began. “I owe a lot to Brian for guiding me in my growth process as a professional photographer”.

In addition to the top 10 Iowa photographer awards, Brian and Jeremy had 3 prints that received scores of 80 or more to earn a merit. Less than 20% of all submissions merited. Below is a list of some of the additional awards earned by the studio:

Indoor Portrait of a Group – 1st Place
Indoor Portrait of a Woman – 3rd Place
Mr. Photogenic – 1st and 2nd Place
Ms. Photogenic – 2nd Place
Lil Mr. Photogenic – 2nd Place
Finished Product – 3rd Place

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Brian and Jeremy were also awarded a handful of honorable mentions. “It was a great night for our studio and I couldn’t be more proud of our team”. Jeremy added “We are very fortunate our job includes working with many people and making their day brighter by showing them they are beautiful”.

“We have a lot of people to thank and it could take forever to thank everyone” Brian said. “But in addition to thanking our wives and families that sacrifice time away from us, we could not have done this without fantastic clients”.

dsmPhotoCompany serves clients nationwide and they can be reached at 515.440.1432 or at www.dsmphotocompany.com. Below are some of their winning submissions.

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  • sarah brewbaker - March 3, 2011 - 2:31 am

    Congrats you two! You always have awesome lighting and composition in everything you shoot, very well deserved AND killer images. 🙂

Featured: Mercedes

Pictures say 1000 words – but we’re gonna go ahead and say some really cool things about Mercedes anyway – because it’s just so easy to do!  We were honored to create her senior portraits – she is obviously- GORGEOUS! To make it even better, she has a very fun personality and came to us with some really awesome ideas.

She is a cheerleader and dance team member at her school and her team is very successful – no doubt in large part to Mercedes!  She had to bring her favorite little furry friend with her and of course – we had to photograph the two of them together – so cute.  She was such a trooper (and her mom, Robin, was a fantastic assistant!) because we ran into a mini thunderstorm during her session – caught out in the rain.  Fortunately we could get under an awning and keep shooting while Robin saved some of our equipment from getting ruined – can’t ask for better help than that!

Fortunately it was a very quick burst of rain and it cleared up just in time for Mercedes to get in her amazing prom dress.  Easily one of our most favorite EVER dress scenes – we were even nice enough to let her sit down on our chase lounge in a field – how cool are we?

Our entire team – beauty and photographers – had a complete blast working with Mercedes.  She’s interested in photography herself – so we really enjoyed giving her some tips she can use on her own.  Thanks again, Mercedes – we hope you are having an awesome senior year!

Click any of the images below to see a larger view.

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Also check out this video from her session…

  • Charlene Adair - January 29, 2011 - 6:21 pm

    These are really awesome pictures. Of course I may be just a little biased because this is my Grandaughter and she is an awesome girl!!!

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