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January 31st, 2012Fritts Photo and Fitz and the Tantrums in Spin
November 7th, 2011So I got to work with popchips again, always fun, and this time to go get some photos of Fitz and the Tantrums just enjoying some popchips at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO. Well, the photos made it into Spin Magazine, or at least on to their website, no word on whether they’ll go into a print issue or not yet. See it here!
http://www.spin.com/gallery/outside-lands-gets-crunched-popchips?page=1#main
And a couple more bonus shots. Fitz and the Tantrums were great, nice and relaxed, very cool to meet them.
Playing a little chip toss.
Mmmm, try this flavor!
Trying out a new service called Thumbtack
November 7th, 2011So Thumbtack.com is a website that helps me promote my business and put me in contact with potential customers. For those potential customers I’d like to share a little about myself. I’m a Denver based photographer who does weddings, engagements, event photography, family photos…. product photography, dog photography, I’ve dabbled in a lot of things. I have a portfolio that you can look at some of my past works here at FrittsPhoto.com
Check out my Thumbtack.com profile here.
Motor Cycle Racing Photography
October 4th, 2011So originally I was going to do a piece just on going out to the track and show photos and talk a little bit about it. But one thing I’ve learned on this fancy internet thing is that people looking at photography stuff seem to much prefer learning about technique and how they can do something themselves. So with that said I recalibrated my head and instead decided to talk about the actual doing of the photos and show off a little of what I did, although to be honest, I’m definitely no pro at this and really just did it for fun and had to learn as I went along. I’d assume a lot of what I learned would apply to racecar photography too.
Real close up! 1/250s @ f/7.1, ISO 400, 125mm
So, first things first. My buddy and I went out to the High Plains Raceway and worked the the MRA here in Colorado and got some media passes. It wasn’t too hard to do, lots of paperwork, waivers, agreements, and all that jazz to go through (including who you’re insured by, ouch!). If you are interested I’d suggest starting there, contact your local raceways and clubs that race and see what ones will allow you to get a pass, without one getting the really fun photos will be a lot harder.
Second, be safe, seriously and follow all the rules of the track. You don’t want to end up getting hurt or getting someone else hurt or having your day cut short by getting kicked out.
This guy laid it down easy, with speed it really could hurt
Now, I’m going to break this blog post here, otherwise it may fill my whole homepage, click on through for more!
Bulleit Bourbon at Interstate Kitchen and Bar
September 16th, 2011So Bulleit Rye (a really delicious rye whiskey) can hardly be found here in Denver right now but it just so happens that there was a wonderful dinner hosted by Interstate Kitchen and Bar here in Denver that I got to attend in its honor. The food at Interstate was very good and and bourbon complimented it well. With that said, let’s get to the photos.
Awesomely done soup of the day
Bulleit and Interstate Together
More through after the break as always.
Wow, I’m behind
September 16th, 2011Sorry to the readers, I don’t know why I haven’t been able to find time to update the blog. Well I have a general idea, I was recently married, wedding and honeymoon planning is lengthy and stressful, but the posts really don’t take that long, it’s just fallen to the back burner. I have plenty to blog about. So with all that stated, I think I should get started again, and now to it.
Short Website Announcement
June 16th, 2011Alright, short website related announcement. I’ve had enough of Godaddy, too much down time, too long of responses, too many crashes, too slow. I don’t know how many times I’ve had people email me or tell me the that it’s down or incredibly slow, dialup isn’t great for a photography website. I’ve tried to tell Godaddy about it but they tell me everything is fine and I’m sick of arguing with them that there isn’t so I’ve moved on.
Onward, u2-web.com hopefully will do better for me. I moved everything last night and hopefully all is working. If something isn’t or you find some broken links please email me or comment on this post. Thank you, hopefully all the web woes will be solved!
Crown Royal Bottle Photo
May 26th, 2011So this is a quick post mostly in response to a call from the Crown Royal Facebook page. They’re asking for some of people’s most recent pics. This is one that I took back in March that I’m especially proud of. I think I like this style and am going to do a few more like it and will post a how to and my completed photos.
Crown XR Bottle
Spring Back to Vail / Captain Morgan
April 28th, 2011So sadly the majority of the snow season is over, probably no more snowboarding for me even though A-Basin is probably still in decent shape. I did get to close the season out in style though at Vail for the Spring Back to Vail Festival which was great! Captain Morgan was on the mountain to help keep spirits high in the dark times of the countdown to closure and to help promote and get the word out about the pond skimming competition on Sunday.
I got to follow the Captain around and get some photos, including one in which he actually got the Captain Pose while in the air, it was great!
Then on Sunday I got to go to the Pond Skimming Competition which was amazing. I’ve never been to one but it’s quite shocking how much skill it must take to do. You hit a jump which launches you up in the air and then you land on the water. Gotta have enough speed to make it the rest of the way and hopefully have some experience with water skiing.
The Captain held a competition to see who wanted to dress up as a Captain and take on the mountain. About ten people wanted to take part and take the Captain’s place. The Captain held a vuvuzela blowing competition, a pose off competition and then a quiz about what you think “your best night out” is. Of course the Captain is all about drinking responsibly and dropped a few hints about it, two people picked up on the hints but Jimmy took home the prize. Jimmy got dressed up quickly by the Captain and the Morganettes in the Captain suit and climbed the hill. If that wasn’t enough he totally succeeded at crossing the pond having never done it before and then pulled the Captain pose when back on dry land! Youtube video here (sorry about the shakiness, it’s my video but no tripod).
Photos of the fun event below.
Captain Pose in the Air
More from the event after the break!
AuNaturAlice 8
April 9th, 2011Alice 105.9 holds a yearly event where they invite bands to come and perform “Au Natural,” acoustic sets here in Denver. It’s a very cool event, this year Hanson, Default, Parachute and Andy Grammer all performed (you can get some audio and more info here).
Outside the event before it started I landed a gig through Pop Chips, which if you haven’t tried, you should. The gig was take photos of concert attendees in front of the step and repeat wall. Pop Chips brought the wall, Pop Chips models and props for people to pose with. It was a lot of fun all around.
Oh and if you’d like to see more photos head on over to the Alice 105.9 facebook page. The ones from the step and repeat are mine, not the ones from inside the show.
Slacker and Steve
A wizard ninja and a cowboy Charlies Angel with money?