GroovyDoodle Photography

We had the pleasure of pulling together a really fun shoot for Opera Columbus for use in their 2009 / 2010 Season Guides and Grand Opera Playbills (They’re doing Pagliacci, a Mario Lanza tribute concert, and Romeo & Juliet).  The theme this year is “Underneath It All Everyone’s An Opera Lover” featuring masks in each of the photos.  The Season Guides were put together by LondyLawrence, and came out fantastic.  We are so proud to have been involved in this project, and while we can’t share the entire season guide, here were some of our favorite pics from the shoot.

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We spent this past Saturday down at Junction View Studios for Agora6 showing off some of our friends’ work like Five Crowns re-purposed computer jewelry and some of Harp Art Brokerage’s current collection. We also were working our mini on-site print studio both during the day and during the dance party that night! We had the chance to try some fun light painting to make the background for every image absolutely unique and gave a little creative spin to your average “photo booth” experience.

Here were some of our favorites, as well as a link to the full gallery.

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We did another model shoot this weekend, this time for Chicks Are Hot Clothing’s web store. We took nearly 1,000 pics in 4 hours and are starting to sift through them for the cream of the crop. Here are some of our favorites so far…

Next month is the big Agora VI art show down at Junctionview Studios. We’ll be doing a huge shoot the weekend of the check-in, and wanted to do a smaller test run in advance. All in all, we shot about 20 pieces this day varying in size from 3″ glass sculptures to a 10′ wide white on white cut paper piece. There were a lot of opportunities for us to challenge ourselves with something new, and at the rate of $10 per piece (which included a free Zapp (TM) file), the trial run was definitely a win:win for both us and the artists!  We were even able to upsize the files without distortion for giclée printing of some of the larger paintings at the artist’s request.

We recently did a huge shoot for the Harp Art Brokerage, who is currently featuring the work of French artist Corinne Beaussier.  Like many of our canvas art clients, we upsized her files for special giclée printing of her work later.

We spent Valentine’s Day down at Junction View Studios working our mini onsite print studio for their themed art show I heART: Sweet. Hot. And Bitter. Aside from the standard couples shots, several of the artists brought in their objects of affection – anything from chainsaws to cookies!

We had a really great time, and are looking forward to the big Agora show in May.  In the meantime, here were some of our favorites, as well as a link to the gallery.

We brought some of our favorite subjects back to model our friend Curt’s jewelry. There were so many great pieces to try on, everyone had a fun time. Of the handful we’ve shared with Curt so far, these were his favorites:

Here’s what Curt had to say…

I knew we would get nothing less than spectacular photo’s and you delivered. We are already picking out items for the next one.

Thanks!

Our friends over at C&T Designs sent us some of their latest chainmaille jewelry designs to take some shots of. We’ve been harassing Curt for quite some time about doing product shots of their jewelry. Unfortunately he’s in Colorado which makes it a little more difficult than driving across town during our normal monthly photo shoots.

Curt recently sent Adam this chainmaille bracelet as a gift, a completely new design he’d been working on from his new “Industrial” product line and the first one of the series. Of course, as soon as Adam got it home he couldn’t wait to take a few shots of it then sent them right over to Curt. Needless to say, Curt was pretty blown away with the photos of the bracelet.

Fast forward a couple weeks, and we now have a giant box of C&T’s amazing crafts to photograph! Not only are we doing some standard product photography, but we’re having a few models come in for the Saturday shoot and model some of this really unique pieces. Last night we spent some time going through it all and took some sample shots to give some of the models coming in an idea of what they’ll be wearing, so we thought we’d share with all of you too!

Take a peek!

A colleague’s wife heard about some of our other product photography and asked us if we would take some shots of his wife’s products that she creates for kids. She creates really cute embroidered items like cloth diapers, onesies, and hooded towels perfect for little ones straight out of the bath. One of the neatest products we saw were these very cute embroidered blankets with dozens of different tags along the edges. We’ve never seen anything like that before!

Here, take a peek…

Mel’s family was in town from Texas this week, but shutterbugs are never far from their cameras.  She caught these fun shots at various houses along the Columbus Garden Railway Tour.