Days at work

I shot together with Sweetpop the word Vardag (An ordinary day) in different ways in the studio the other day. It looked kind of fun when i took a shoot when they were adjusting the letters in the word so i decided to take a group photo from above. I first time here on my blog! 🙂

I do some assignments for the The National Government Employee Pensions Board (SPV) and yesterday it was time for another shoot! This time it was for a yearly event they have. The idea was to have a little girl hold a giant piece of a puzzle in which she is portrayed as an old version of herself.
We started setting up for the little girl with the big piece of a puzzle (which we had to hang from a rod as it was so heavy). We took some versions without the piece as well just in case.
After we where finished we did i new setting of the lights and shoot the “older” version of the girls. Now there is a little bit of post production left before we can deliver the finished image!

A big thanks to André for the “behind-the-scenes” images!

Actually i do shoot other persons than YOHIO 🙂 but the last couple of weeks i’ve done two times. This time it was for the new album that’s coming out soon. We’re going to composite this image with some other stuff so it’s gonna be real cool! We shot two different poses and one of them will be used, shot some close-ups and details too, this will probably be used in the album booklet.

YOHIO made it to the finals in the Melodifestivalen this year as well, not too surprising! Images for press, new album and posters are needed right away!
We did a little new more modern lighting on these pictures! It felt really good!
I shot some pictures with YOHIO standing on his knees and as i often want to shoot from a very low angle we ended up building a podium for him to stand on!

Now they have chosen seven images so i have to get to it!

Thsi week i went out to shoot a cover and portrait for a magazine about the forest industry. The images was to be shot in the woods. A lot of snow and a temperature way below freezing did the assignment a little bit more interesting!

I went out some time ahead and found a perfect spot in the woods. Really great trees i could have as a background and also some trees they could lean against.
After some carrying my stuff there and setting the light and my computer up i was ready to start! One thing about shooting outside when it’s really cold is the red noses and the big jackets etc. The red noses can easily be fixed in Photoshop and all the big warm clothes we fix with a little bit of persuasion.
After som shooting with all the wark clothes on i asked if it was ok to take som quick shots with just the shirt, and he said no problem. I really tried to be as quick as possible 😀

I think it was about 20 years ago! 20 years since i shot Kingen Karlsson the last time! Then it was for a CD-cover together with Evert Ljusberg.
This time it was images for a new CD and tour.
The pictures needed to have an old feeling. Not old as in old, but old as in classic. I set up the light to look a bit like in the 50’s.
Kingen sang and danced and i kept on shooting. We did some pictures with a glass of whiskey in his hand, but as i didn’t have any whiskey in the studio we used washing-up liquid. 😀

I do of course shoot a lot of “ordinary” images too, maybe i don’t blog so much about it even though they are a very frequent kind of job for me.
Today i went away for a typical ordinary job. Sundsvall Elnäts board wanted a group image for their annual report. We had a big room that was just renovated with big white walls that worked perfect as background! And of course, like always, not everybody could be there att the same time so we had to shoot one guy separately and put him in the picture in post.
Just another day at work!

Just after christmas i went up to Tänndalen to shoot for Volkswagen Magazine. It was a piece on their VW Passat Alltrack. It was a one day job so i went up 33 swedish miles and then back 33  again, took me about 7 hours just driving 🙂

Started 05.30 in the morning and came back at 20.00.

We shot at a location ner Fjällnäs hotell with the mountains in the background. The first image will be over two pages, the piece will be in total five pages.

The weather was kind of hazy, but nothing a Profoto Pro7B couldn’t fix!

Just the other week me and Jonas (on his last day!) went up to Sollefteå to shoot Jörgen Brink for a magazine. There was not a lot of snow but they had prepared all the cross country tracks so we had some snow there!
After som location scouting we found the perfect place, unfortunately there was not possible to take the car there! So we had to carry all the gear through the woods!
We set up the lights and shot both action images and more portrait pictures. I really wanted some out of focus trees in the foreground, since we couldn´t find a spot with that we took some pieces of a fallen tree and held in front of the lens 🙂

After some carrying, lying around in the snow and shooting we hauled all the gear back to the car and went home!

The last two images for Sundsvalls Tidnings campaign we shot last monday, outside! So i guess you can easily say that we got our fair share of fresh air! 😀 We had people in their PJs and robes, three french bulldogs and a dachshund! A really great day! Unfortunately i only got two “behind the scenes” pictures.