Days at work

Yesterday i shot a cover for our “neighbour” city, Timrå. The image was to illustrate how close they have to the nature and do it in a little mysterious way.
The location was a beach by a little lake quite near the freeway, but what may look really boring to one will look great in camera 😀
We didn’t have the weather on our side, almost freezing, clouds and rain. But we packed all the gear and headed out on the cold beach. After some setting up and testing we started shooting. The model was to have some reindeer horns on her head which was kind of tricky to attach. But we got them there. I also needed the grass to be on the other side of the camera so i had to “replant” some 🙂
Everybody did a great job, even though the model almost freezed to death and my computer somewhat drowned in all the rain!

While we’re working on the post production of the second image for Dragons basketball, went and shot the third in the series. This time we shot Alex Wesby in a brass bath at Spa Maskrosen 🙂 A smaller room to shoot in is hard to find i might think, especially if you’re supposed to shoot the image from above more or less. I think i hit my head in the ceiling 10 times!

There will be a whole lot of post production on this image as well 😀 The floor has to be replaced, a shelf built in 3D and so on …

The concept of the image will be more clearly when it’s finished!

The second image for The Dragons Basketball was some what a challenge! As you can see in the behind-the-scenes pictures we had some kind of ancient nordic theme 😉 Lucky for me i had Andreas from the agency ant Jonas, who will do his internship with me for the coming 10 weeks. He’s studying at Fotoskolan STHLM.
They location was the south part of the island Alnö. We had props in form of swords, helmets and other stuff that was borrowed for this shoot. We had to help the players get the chain mails on because the where extremely heavy!! When everybody have gotten there gear together we had to get everybody in the right position, as we will put in some other elements we needed everybody in the exact right positions.

After a lot of shouting and yelling we could rap it up and call it a day! Now we have some time in Photoshop before it´s ready!

I was doing some laundry the other day when i found a sketch för this years firts shoot for Dragons Basketball. It’s always fun looking at the first sketch when everything is done and printed, to see what you changed from the original idea/sketch. I made this sketch during a meeting with the art director for this project, Jocke på Sweet Williams and P&P.

The idea and finished product was very much the same, there where some small changes as there was no audience on the image and i added the theater interior which i found when i shot the chairs. It added a really nice theater feeling i think.

The players was shot at their home arena, the red drapes on Svea Theater and the stage, chairs and interior at the Sundsvall Theater.

Now we will continue with the second image in the series, but more on that later …

Last thursday i went out inte the deep woods of Hälsingland to shoot portraits of a guy driving a big tractor for cutting timber.
I took about an hour to drive down there and about 30 minutes of walking into the woods to get to where he was working. And let me tell you that walking into the woods with one big camerabag on my back, a big case of lightstands, a PRO7B batery back with xtra battery really feels awful 🙂
Anyway, later on it i found out that i’d stopped my car about 300 meters to early and the actual walk would have been would have been about 10 minutes if i had stopped at the “right” place …
Anyway the job turned out really well and the magazine liked the pictures a lot! And the fact that i got some exercise just comes as a big plus!

Last wednesday i shot some new images for Mittplagg once again! Three models and a whole lot of clothes was what we had to work with. I started shooting the product shots as the models where getting their make up made. We had to do a lot of ironing and stretching before everything looked perfect. The images with the models went like a breeze, everyone except one girl had been on these shoots before. Last time we had all the models use a trampoline on the pictures, but this time we made more classic pictures.

Everybody did a great job!

Yesterday a went to shoot a picture in a theater 🙂 I need an image of a red curtain so i found a theater with that nearby. I needed the curtain to be hanged a special way so we had to lower the rig in the ceiling to redo the curtain! But as soon as that was done i could take the picture!

New basketball season means new images 🙂 So today it was time to shoot the first ocf four that we will be doing this year. There will be a lot of work with these images! And as each image is ready i will of course post it here. We did the shoot inside the arena. I went there this morning and started setting up together with Jocke from Sweet Williams & POP and Fredrik from Dragons Basketball. When we where done the players came in. We did a whole lot of adjustments to both light and poses, but after some fixing we got what we wanted! The last thing we did was to shoot a shot of the basket, what that is for you’ll see later on!

The best think with my job as a photographer is the variation of assignments i get! Last friday Kindbergs came by to shoot some new images for their new album and poster. We shot everybody individually so i can put them together later with another background!

Yesterday i was shooting drinks all day! The agency Sweet Williams & POP was designing a new drink menu for the restaurant Invito. I’ve shot their drink menu for three years now, a very pleasant job 😉

I thinkwe shot somewhere between 20 & 25 drinks! Since some of the images was to shot from above i had to climb ip on the bar for those. I guess i was the first to do that, at least with a camera in my hand 🙂