Tom Fritsch

This is by far the best song ever written about Halloween.
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Here is a old transfer that I did in the early nineties. Happy Halloween.

I added two new shots to the “Lucent” gallery on my site. I have been shooting this series over the last four years and have quite a backlog of these shots. Posted below are the new shots and one from my archives.

These shots are just about the colors and the movement in the shadows. I needed some color to brighten up my rainy day.

A couple months back I made a book through Blurb and was fairly pleased with how it reproduced. The one thing that did bother me though was the weight of the paper. It was a little thin for my liking. I wasn’t the only one who had this complaint, I found several posts on their forum [...]

 I was talking to friend and photographer Chris Dicicco about how much time I spend on a shot when I’m trying to create something new. I told him that there are times when I feel that I have fallen short of my own expectations when the shot is finished and wondered if I had spent [...]

The other day I was in my garage when I kicked over a tub of plastic BB’s. They rolled all over the place and as I was dropping F Bombs I noticed that they made a cool pattern on the floor. Suddenly my rage turned into joy and I started thinking about how I would photograph [...]

This week we take another trip back to the mid nineties for some manipulated Polaroid Time Zero shots. Everybody has there own method of manipulating their shots. I used a metal pottery tool that was much like a pencil but rounded on the end. You can see it’s effect in the meter shot below. I believe it [...]

Here are two recent additions to the site. I tend to gravitate to objects that have a lot of texture. That seems to be a recurring theme to a lot of my work. The backgrounds are the backs of old metal Pepsi and 7up signs from the fifties. It’s hard to recreate fifty years of aging. 

My Father-in- Law was a collector of many things. He passed away a few years ago and my wife and I have been going through some of his treasures. He loved music and had a fairly large record collection. I was gathering his records together to give to a friend of mine when I noticed [...]

I love to photograph plain and ordinary objects and make them into something visually interesting.I also like changing the look of the object to the point of not being able to tell what it is. The shots above are of masking paper. Sometimes you need to do a shot about nothing.

Today is the official launch of my new website. I took my time putting it together and thought at times I would never finish it, but having been through this process in the past I knew that time was my friend. It’s never really finished but a starting point were it can continue to evolve [...]

Here is a look into my archives from the mid 90’s. The two images below are lacquer transfers. Easy to make and a cool effect. Make a laser of a print, lay it face down on water color paper and apply lacquer thinner to the back of image with a rag and the image transfers. Done.

A glimpse into my iTunes Purchased folder.

Here are a couple new shots I have done recently. I usually shoot in 8.5×11 or 17×11 formats. Forcing myself into these formats helps me get the most impact out of the shots and really gives me a good idea of how it will look in my book.I also like to shoot things in pairs [...]

In February of 2007 I joined a web based publishing site called Issuu.It allows you to upload PDF’s into a flip book format that reads like a magazine. You can have as many different books as you want and have the option to embed them into any blog. It’s another online avenue to get your [...]

Lately I have been working on a series of images called “Aged”. The shots are of old rusted/tarnished metal and silver objects that I have collected, borrowed, or inherited. I have shot them on black to help bring out the texture and shape of the objects. My intent was to show as much of the [...]