Potthast Studios – Blog

Found this pic online of Shuttle Atlantis with the sun in the background.  An amateur astronomer claimed to take the picture from earth through a telescope.  But then I started thinking this would be a pretty easy photoshop trick too..  What do you think? Real or Photoshop?

The beginning of 2009, I decided to make the investment of buying a newer and better film camera. Everyone always asks why there is still use in these old out of date cameras? To me, its the feeling of knowing that I have captured something, on film and having that hard copy to hold on to. Due to the inconvenience of shooting with film, it has taken me a while to get these scanned. I shot these with my new camera throughout downtown Atlanta. The whole weekend I was there, it was impossible to see the whole skyline as you can see. So we made the best of it, and when we had a good two hour slot when it wasn’t raining, we hiked throughout the city and captured the evening.

This past weekend both Ellie (6) and Isabelle (5) celebrated their birthdays and we made these little treats to send to school for the parties.   They were a big hit!

This was my first shoot and I had to fight off Mike so he couldn’t eat his cake pop.

Helped set up some lights today for Robin. She did a great job, excited to see what she came up with!

Recently I had a shoot, where the idea was to take this Black and White dress I had hanging in my closet and play with the idea of shooting on black to limit what the film registers. So I used the straight lines of the dress and the curve of the body. Simple, yet slightly odd results. 

Winter Haven hosted its first Criterium Bike Race Sunday.  The course was weaved in and around downtown streets.  I don’t know much about bike racing but this was really cool how fast these guys were moving.  I hope we can make it an annual event.

50,000+ for the spring game ?? From the size of the crowd it almost looks like a real game.

May seem quite odd to see a large Publix truck parked parallel to this white wall? This was in the beginning stages of the ‘Publix Commercial’ shoot taking place right across from the Studio. I am sure almost everyone has seen a Publix Ad, they do a great job. As I was leaving work yesterday the crew for the shoot kept growing, actors and actresses holding cash in their hands, Video crew with a large film camera on tracks. It will be interesting to see the new commercial turns out and how they used the huge “outdoor studio” across the street?

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..