So, awhile back I was doing a bit of blog reading when I came across this post about light painting. I, being the moron that LOVES to take pictures but HATES to use a flash (and therefore has almost ZERO picture taking opportunities in the dark, dreary winter) immediately grabbed my camera and started trying to make my very own light painted Christmas tree picture.
(All of the following pictures are straight out of the camera. I haven’t edited them at all.)
As you can see, I didn’t really master the technique. It was fun trying though.
I showed Cleatus the pictures and then googled light painting and then demanded that Cleatus turn off all the lights and play with me. He was pretty excited until I explained to him that we were going to be taking pictures and not, well, doing what he was hoping we were going to be doing.
We flipped off most of the lights, but left the lights on the tree and the lights in the other room on. I put my camera on the tripod, set my exposure time to six seconds and handed Cleatus a flashlight.
Here is what he came up with:
“Mom.” I tell ya, I am always amazed at my husband’s lack of creativity.
The room was too bright, so you can really see Cleatus standing there. After a few more tries, we realized our mistake and turned off every light we could find. I dug up an old glow stick that I had gotten the kids for Halloween and forgotten to give them and we had a bit more luck.
Not too bad!
From there we moved on to using a lighter and that was what we had the most success with. Cleatus really enjoyed using the lighter to light up himself for the picture. I’m not sure if that’s still light painting or not, but the pictures turned out pretty awesome.
Here Cleatus was trying to give himself a crown. The three lights are the points of the crown. It didn’t turn out great, but it’s still pretty cool.
And, yeah. Ok. So we had to get dirty. We took quite a few pictures of Cleatus making out with himself. This was by far the best shot we got. In most of them his lips were nowhere near the right spot. But this one? This one was good enough to gross me out. Other men making out? Not gross. My husband making out with a man (even if it is himself)? Gross.
It got more gross from there, but Cleatus has PUT HIS FOOT DOWN. I am not allowed to share the dirty pictures of him with himself that ensued, but just trust me when I say EW. I even got a little jealous at one point. Of Cleatus and, well, Cleatus. The cheating bastard.
Moving on from the guy on guy action, here is a picture of Cleatus worshipping himself. Just like he does every other day. Because he is JUST THAT COOL. (Or so he thinks.)
And there he is again. Just look at the awe and love and TOTAL ADORATION with which he is looking at HIMSELF! Imagine trying to live with this man. It’s hard, I tell you.
And this one we call “The Many Faces of Cleatus.”
There are a couple more shots on flickr, if you’re interested.
feener says:
ahhhh, very strange, i like the first xmas shot…
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December 15th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Cameron says:
Oh My God…I was totally wrong. Cleatus is way funnier than you are!! Just kidding, but that is DAMN FUNNY. The making out one, AWESOME. I hereby retract every nasty thing I’ve never said about Cleatus. One question – how do you get your spouse to play your puppet whenever you want? Probably the boobs, right? My man boobs don’t have the same appeal.
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December 15th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Karen Sugarpants says:
OMG I’m DYING laughing here…I fucking love you guys. Move to Ontario!
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December 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Karen Sugarpants says:
Oh and send me the other pictures or POST THEM!!
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December 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
kd@abitsquirrelly says:
Does Cleatus know that he has humiliated himself on the blogosphere? Just wondering…
December 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Christina says:
CC: me on the email to Karen Sugarpants. LOL
That’s totally awesome. I just had a baby a few weeks ago so I’ll have to wait a few more weeks before I have anything to offer the hubby so he’ll “be my puppet” But I’m totally gonna try this!
December 15th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Mrs. Schmitty says:
Very Creative…though the kissing one was gross…can only IMAGINE what the others were like. Um Ew.
I loved the one on flickr with the “Hear No Evil…etc., etc.”!
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December 15th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Aliceson says:
Very Cool! That would have been fun to do last week when the power was out.
I’ll have to try that with our Christmas tree.
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December 16th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Auds at Barking Mad says:
Ya know, in the wrong hands (or the right hands, depending on how you look at it!), Cleatus could become viral. In the interwebs sense of the word. That could have some benefits Karly.
Or maybe not.
*lol*
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December 16th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Michelle says:
Oh come on. Just post the other pictures. this is only the internet!
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December 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Travis Erwin says:
Freaky stuff
December 16th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Zephra says:
That was so cool…the pictures not your husband and your husband stuff. I have to try that. Not your husband and husband but taking the pictures.
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December 16th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Petra says:
so cool! Really neat effects you had going there. I love the Cleatus worshipping himself ones!! LOL
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December 16th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Vicky (Secret Mom Thoughts) says:
I love the effects. I’m so going to try this tomorrow. Cleatus is such a good sport for playing along with you.
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December 16th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Pocklock says:
I sent this to my husband. I know he’ll want to play. And I LOVE Cletus’ sense of humor! LOL!
December 17th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Kelley says:
They are awesome!
My husband would have drawn boobs or something equally graphic with the glow stick…
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December 18th, 2008 at 5:15 am
Lani ~ The Wooden Porch says:
That is awesome!!!
December 18th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Swistle says:
Those are SO FUN.
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December 18th, 2008 at 7:40 am
jerseygirl89 says:
Those are awesome. Frankly, I’m impressed that you got Cleatus to do anything but dirty poses.. . .Hot Guy’s would have all been dirty.
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December 18th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Nan says:
Wow!! That is so cool!
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December 19th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
that girl says:
Is it wrong that I love this post so much?
December 19th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Stacey says:
That’s pretty cool. I will definitely have to google light painting today.
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December 20th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Jenni Jiggety says:
Cool pictures! I will have to figure out how you did that because I think I need to try it!
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December 20th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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December 21st, 2008 at 10:22 am
Leslie says:
“The Many Faces Of Cleatus”
HILARIOUS.
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December 30th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Affairs with Married Men says:
I love your writing style, wish i could write articles as well as you. Do you write all this yourself?
August 26th, 2009 at 9:45 am