Professional photographers employ tricks to create desired images, shooting from low angles to make short subjects seem taller and filming action figures on pita bread for fake moon landings. Benefit from an original perspective with today's Groupon from AGinsberg Productions LLC. Choose between the following options:

• For $179, you get a photo shoot experience (a $650 value).
• For $500, you get $1000 worth of video-making credit.

Photographer and videographer Alan Ginsberg travels within ten miles of Topeka to shoot portraits and films for personal or professional use. Alan will arrive on location and click his camera for two hours, providing his own professional lighting equipment to create a rock-star setting or using the closest real star to illuminate outdoor sessions and photosynthesize lunch. Experienced in action and still shots, Ginsberg chooses 20 retouched images from the shoot that showcase candid moments or evoke speed and motion. Subjects select their enhanced pictures from an online gallery then receive a DVD loaded with the full-size shots ready for printing, plus Facebook- and email-optimized pics for social networking, a digital-only slideshow of the shots, and a holographic blueprint of the Death Star.

Ginsberg plies his ocular eye to framing a wide range of moving pictures, employing cranes and sliders to track subjects with sweeping shots. For $1,000, clients could commission a basic business tour, ten-minute two-person interview, or a 30-second product shoot for commercial use. Budding musicians can also use the credit towards a music-video shoot where Ginsberg works with the artist to bring their vision to life by providing all the lighting, editing the footage, and waiting for a bolt of lightning to strike and upload the component parts onto YouTube or Vimeo.

There is an extra fee for Grouponers redeeming more than 10 miles from Topeka or Lawrence.