Television Photography

As I was looking through some of the TTV photography that I had done in the past month, I was intrigued by one photo of my four-legged furry child. I cropped it down to make the black part of the camera to look like an old fashioned television set...does anyone remember the brand "Zenith"?



I love TTV photography and looking forward to producing more of this type of images when it gets warmer and my new job settles down a bit. Oh, did I mention that the studio in which I work was visited by the local newspaper, it seems that the editor came across our video on youtube.com and called up the journal in our county and asked them to check us out. From my understanding, the paper was impressed by our work that they took photographs, videos and will be publishing a story about us in the local paper this week as well as posting a video in their online paper.

Stayed tuned for links and have a wonderful evening.

Happy President's Day

Just a little fun for the day:

http://www.realholidays.com.au/nudedude/index.html

I am enjoying my day off from work, stay tuned though, I just found out our local major newspaper is coming to our Studio in the morning to either check us out or to do a story about our new art studio.

Have a great afternoon!

Here is an image of an item on my antique hunt this weekend. I added some layering to the image in photoshop just to protect my find (copyright CloseUp Photography 2009):


Look for these two young men in the future in some of my art....

Fun things

My son and his friends showed up one night in creative moods and took over the kitchen table to produce their version of sunglasses. Earlier in the week, my son had come across some kaleidoscopes that I was planning on using in an art project. They loved this little plastic toy so much that they decided to make themselves some sunglasses using these little toys. My son decided to use bright color pipe cleaners, kaleidoscopes and hot glue to see his world a thousand tiny different ways! Everyone had fun and here are the results of their efforts!

Lacking in blog

I know that I have been slacking off on the blog, but my new job has opened its doors and we have been extremely busy for the past few weeks. I am excited to have an opportunity to start pursuing my own side projects now that my nights are free.

Below is a sample piece that I started last night using gesso and a matte print of a distorted image that I had found in my digital photography library (when I have the piece finished, I will upload it on the blog and request your critiques):

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Today I spent several hours in a few local "antique" shops scouring over old books, photographs, and suitcases (I love old suitcases) searching for that one item which would jump out at me and scream "take me home"!

I did come across an old game called "Perquackey" that I purchased for $3.00. When I got it home and had a chance to sit down and open the box, I discovered that the sand timer was missing as well as the original can to hold the word dice. The can that was in the box was from a "Yahtzee" game. I was a bit disappointed that pieces were missing from the game, but I think I can find a new sand timer to use and the instructions are printed inside the lid of the game.

To end this evening, here is a another project that I have started and will have to perfect with time and practice---Light Painting Photography!




Have a great evening!