Barbara Stitzer Photography

Welcome

Thanks for stopping by! Since we have known each other for, oh, let's see, a half of a second, we're close, right? so I have to share a secret with you. I'm that person who looks too long at other people. I see all kinds of things, some of which I wish I wasn't privy to, but mostly I just look inside and See who you are, who you want to be, who you could be, what you want and need me to do, and then finding a way to put it all down in film and digital paint. I love it. It's the only thing that I'm passionate about except for my husband and little girls, Zoe and TT. I guess I should mention that I have won more than 200 local, regional and national Addy awards, and many more as well, and my pictures have appeared in magazines as diverse giants like Time for Kids, Vogue, Seventeen and National Geographic to amazing locals like AZ Society and 85255, as well as tons of calendars, catalogues, food, product, fashion, tourism, and tons more stuff. I love shooting private citizens to look as if they were in magazines. My 8 year old daughter, Zoe, has been to 16 countries and 16 states shooting with me, and she has been in more than 400 publications herself. I always think out of the box, because I don't know where in the box really is. So you always get something totally different. That's just me. I always say that I never said having your picture feels good...if you're too comfortable when your photo is being taken, it looks funny! I was a model for a long time, and now I've been a photographer for a long time, so I understand what youre going through. My new passion is digital painting. It really elevates your photograph to a truly amazing work of art, especially when you put it on this killer gallery wrap and mount it flush to the wall. People actually gasp when them come into my home or studio and see these cool paintings. Thank you Marilyn Sholin, for bringing this amazing side of things into my life! I am the Grand Prize Winner of the International Digital Imagemaker’s prestigious Painter IX Award 2006. The painting that won sold for $25,000 to a collector, a new high for digital paintings, which was pretty cool. I have been teaching private and group modeling classes ever since my stints in Kauai and North Dakota, where I needed models to do major ad campaigns and had to go find them, train them to move well and took them on the road with me all around the world. I had 19 regulars, and now 12 are working models stationed in Milan, Paris, Japan, LA, New York and Minneapolis, some of them with amazing careers going. I'm totally so proud of them. I shoot up and down the California Coast all summer long for your California Holiday Card pleasure. This summer, I'm booking on the Florida Panhandle as well from June 30-July 10. I've been getting very booked, so please, respect my and my assistant's time if you need to cancel, and cancel 48 hours in advance, so that we can call some lucky wait-listed people and get them in. A Cancellation fee off half of my daily rate will be charged to all commercial clients who cancel with less than 48 hours notice and may be charged the full day rate if they cancel less than 24 hours in advance. Sorry, There's only so much of me to spread around. :) It is a matter of personal pride that you are ecstatic about your pictures. It's really important to me that every time you walk by them, you send out some love to me, so I guarantee my work, 100%. If you aren't feeling like you should bake me cookies after you receive your prints, please let me know. I will shoot until I have my baked goods on the table, or at least until you're really , really happy. So now that you know a little about me, please check out the pics! Looking forward to working with you, Barb