Days at work

A couple of weeks ago i made the shortest music video ever! Well, not it was not really me making it. Corroded had shot their new music video in Stockholm and a couple of additional shots where needed to complete it. So of i went to the fabulous parking garage in town 🙂 My actor for the day, Bjarne from Corroded, did a excellent job rocking in front of my camera to the music coming from ur very small stereo!

The finished video looks great! You will see it soon!

So, all the images for Permobil is now finished and delivered!

Unfortunately i’m not allowed to post any images before they “go public” with them, and that will probably not happen before september!

But as soon as i can i will post them here!

About a week ago i went up to Sättnabanan (a dragracing strip) where me and my assistant/son was going to shoot new pictures for hard rock band Corroded. Well, i took some time getting there, i went in the completely wrong direction so we got there about 40 minutes after we where supposed to! 😀
The theme for the shots was, of course, a little bit of the race car/motorcycle-look. But we took some shots with just the band as well.

Besides a smashe lamp Profoto lamp head the shoot turned out really cool. We had some rain just waiting to pour down on us but i didn’t come until we where on our way home!

I’ll post the finished images as soon as they’re ready!

The last picture for this time in France! Yesterday we went up to Annecy, where we was to shoot on a golf course. All night before we left, I had a “charging party” with myself in my hotel room. 6 battery packs to the Profoto generators were all to be charged and only three outlets … Well, it went well anyway 🙂
When we got to the golf course we went past the golf shop and got some props. I just had to ask the girl that worked there, where she had learned English so well, her response was “I’m from Scotland”: D
Then we went with the golf cart to select the best place to be among the 19 holes, of course, it was the closest to the hole that we finally decided on after half an hour of bumping around the track.

The shoot went great despite a number of passing by golfers who probably thought we were really a pain the …. I think it could maybe have something to do with me screaming during the shoot, but i’m not sure 😀 …
Everyone did a great job in the scorching heat, even the Jack Russell dog who acted as himself seemed to enjoy it. And if you’re wondering why one of the guys in the group picture is standing and pointing down, he is saying “sit” to the dog that just when the camera went off, decided to leave the place 🙂

Now i just have to pack everything again and head back home to Sweden and the holi … no, i’ll have to work a little bit more …

This is how the images for LAJV Magazine turned out!

Yesterday we packed the car full of photo gear and wheel chairs and headed towards Morzine, a small mountain village where the next picture would be shot. The model for the image was Yohann Taberlet, one of the world’s best skiers who’s currently training full time for the Paraolympics 2014. An incredibly nice guy, nothing seemed impossible for him!

After a few hours we were finally there and started looking for a good location. Sometimes i had to pinch myself in the arm because it was so amazingly beautiful everywhere we went! Finally we found a hill that was perfect.

For this picture we had rented an old Citroen 2CV that Yohann would “pack” with sporting gear.

After rigging the lights and equipment that would be in the car, we could finally begin to shoot. Yohann was, as I thought, fantastic! We worked for several hours with the image, and in fact it was the very last exposures that turned out the best!

Now it is an image still here in France and it is on a golf course in another city, but more on that later!

Last week it was time again to shoot the next cover for LAJV Magazine. This issue was a special about AIR Festival which is a kind of club / dance festival in the middle of Sundsvall city. The two guys who organize the festival, Eric & Andrew, was to be photographed. This year’s theme for the festival is “circus”, so not to surprisingly, I wanted to do something on that! I thought it would be cool to mix up a little Slipknot / the Joker / Blues Brothers in the picture!

Sometimes you have to have some luck, especially with these shoots since it’s often quite short on time. But the same weekend as we were going to shoot this there was in fact a real Circus in town, Cirkus Brazil Jack!

Anyway, Eric and Andrew had to get up early to get their make-up while I went out and checked out the circus. They had not yet raised the tent, but all the cirkus trailers were there. I met a super nice guy who worked there who helped us get into the area and let us borrow one of the trailers for the shoot.

The sun was really hot all day! I had to lie under a blanket to see anything on the computer and Robin from LAJV acted as a lens hood for me. After we had photographed at two different locations at the circus, we were finally ready! The results coming soon! : D

Now the the first day of shooting in Lyon is finished. Today we photographed at a top arestaurant, TETEDOIE, with 180 degree view of the town Lyon! Extremely cool. The restaurant was as fine as they come!
I had rented some photo gear from Marseilles, which came delivered just about 10 minutes before we head out to our location! The guy who owned the place drove the gear all the way down to Lyon, which is a two and a half hour drive! Very good service indeed!
After a bit of looking around the restaurant deciding where to shoot, we began setting up the lights and props before the model arrived. The scene for the shoot was a guy proposing to his girlfriend, and they are at this romantic place with a kind of crazy waiters, sort of …
I must say that I often get surprised by how some extras just amaze me on the shoots. The guy who acted as the waiter (after quite a strong persuasion from my part: D)  just became exactly the french waiter we where looking for. He lifted the image to a new level with his behavior! It was wonderful!

Now I’ll sleep like a baby before it’s time to get up super early tomorrow to go on a three hour trip up to the mountains where we will shoot tomorrow!

The images for Birsta City Magasin are now ready and even printed! It was quite a lot of work with them, especially the cover. The weather was not on our side that day, it was more or less a storm and it was snowing! But i think they turned out really cool!

Last week i shot the cover for LAJV Magazine again. This time it was three persons that were to be on the cover. They are opening three different shops in an old dance place here in town. One café, one clothing store and one place with retro furniture. My first idea was to shoot them as three super heros, but since the place they will be opening in is from the 60s and the furnitureplace deals with retro furniture, i thought it would be cool with some superheros that felt a little bit like Batman/Superman in the 60s!

So we went out and got some props and then for a couple of hours we created three retro super heros in my studio. And then with great help from Finn at LAJV the finished shot has exactly that feeling i was after!