Archive for February, 2009

Piece of Potthast History

After years of searching we finally found a picture of the studio. It originally was a Levys department store. I love to look at past photographs and to see where we came from. Bob Gernert at the Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce found this photo..

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iPhoto Feature

I upgraded to iLife 09 for the family photos and such over the weekend. One really neat feature uses the iPhones GPS to geocache the location where the photo was taken, you can then take a quick look at the map to see where you have been.
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Making crayons out of crayons

Recycle old crayons for a fun low cost craft. Peal paper off old crayons take an old muffin tin or make your own molds out of aluminum foil. Cut up crayons and place in mold. For fun colors match light colors with a drop of dark colors. Bake in oven at low heat 150, until melted. Let cool then color with your new crayon.

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Lubitel 166

Found this old camera in the antique shop up the road from the studio. I had a friend in town who holds on to and uses old vintage cameras. There is something exciting about those little plastic cameras. We checked the shutter, works perfectly no flaws so far, and purchased the camera with a mission to shoot with it. I just happen to be carrying around some 120 BW film that I purchased prior. Loaded up the film, reels fed the film in to a sure fit. It was fun to go out there and literally paint with light. 

http://www.lomography.com/lubitel166+/

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Foil Box

This was too cool not to put on our blog. My mom emailed it me. I had to go into the kitchen and check this out for myself. Whoever looks at the end of your aluminum foil Box? You know when you try to pull some foil out and the roll comes out of the box. Then you have to put the roll back in the box and start over. The darn roll always comes out at the wrong time.

Well, I would like to share this with you. Yesterday I went to throw out an empty Reynolds foil box and for some reason I turned it and looked at the end of the box. And written on the end it said, Press here to lock end. Right there on the end of the box is a tab to lock the roll in place. How long has this little locking tab been there? I then looked at a generic brand of aluminum foil and it had one, too. I then looked at a box of Saran wrap and it had one too! I can’t count the number of times the Saran wrap roll has jumped out when I was trying to cover something up..
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My Shoot Today

shoot_021109Producing a video with the art director on my shoulder is always fun :)    She was very good though..  It was a great shoot Kristie.  Will look at post next week.

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Saturdays Shoot was a Real Ass. Literally…

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Attention iPhone Users

Did you try our blog on your iPhone?  We built an iPhone web app into our blog so you can quickly link to our site from your iPhone or iPod with web capabilities. Our mobile blog is at the same address:

http://www.potthaststudios.com/blog/

Once your there you can bookmark it on your home screen. It looks like this:

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Capturing kids

At a local park trying to get some action shots. Here is the subjects and most shots. This is with my iPhone camera. Amy

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New Window Color

Okay so it’s time to update the windows and today we painted both windows for the Spring.  Drive by and let us know what you think.

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