A studio that photographs first
Northlight Headshot Studio is a headshot studio at 418 Kellerman Avenue in Minneapolis, building generated headshot sets from a sitting it photographs itself.
The studio takes six services and nothing else. Each one has a written scope, a published price and a stated turnaround, and the brief is read against that scope before a date is held. A result that needs more than the booked service is re-quoted at that point, and the visitor decides.
Every set starts in the chair. A sitting is photographed under controlled light, and the generated frames are built from those photographs and from no other source, which is why the studio spends its attention on the forty minutes with the camera rather than on the software afterwards.
Three principles
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The brief is read back before the price is fixed
A published price applies to a published scope. What the images are for is described back in the studio's own words first, and a difference is named then rather than on delivery.
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A generated frame is still the photograph underneath
The set can only carry what the sitting gave it. Frames that drift from the person photographed are discarded before delivery rather than sent for the customer to find.
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No promised outcome
The studio states what it will produce and by when. It makes no claim that a set will win work or an audition, and it does not describe any generated likeness as exact.
What an appointment looks like
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Step 1
The brief is taken
What the images are for, where they will be published and when they are needed, said out loud before a date is held.
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Step 2
The scope is confirmed
One of the six services, or a plain statement that none of them fits the brief.
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Step 3
The sitting is photographed
In the studio, under controlled light, with the framing and the expressions worked through at the chair.
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Step 4
The set is reviewed, then delivered
Against the scope that was agreed, within the stated turnaround, with anything the studio could not reach named in writing.
What this studio does not do
Northlight Headshot Studio does not generate a likeness of anybody who has not sat for it, and it will not work from a photograph taken somewhere else. It does not claim that a generated frame is an exact likeness, and it makes no claim about what a headshot will do for an application or an audition. It also takes no walk-ins: every sitting is arranged in advance so the room and the time are genuinely free.
A question about a service, a sitting or a price
The contact form takes a question and sends it to the studio. Book goes to the arrangements page; neither one confirms a time by itself.