Days at work

Last week i shot the cover of LAJV Magazine. It was a portrait of the General of the big festival “Gatufesten”.

The idea was to use his title as the general of the festival and use it in a military way :D. So the hunt for props began some weeks ago, but as usually everything wasn’t ready until just before we drove away to the shoot.:)

We found some really cool guys who collected old military vehicles and stuff, they agreed to both let us use their jeep and themselves as “models”. The movies “The Pluton” and “Full Metal Jacket” flashed in front of my eyes several times during the shoot 😀 The really rocked!

The clothes we used i got from several places, borrowed some and bought some …

The location we used for this shoot was beside a big concrete factory. It was a big field where the trucks empty old concrete before they clean the tanks, this is later crushed by big tractors and but in a big pile. It looks like a real war zone! Around this field i found a lot of old barrels, car tires and wooden things we could use! Anything you would need in a war 😀

But because the wet concrete is all over this place, some kind of wet concrete mudd is everywhere. Luckily i had some mineral water and an old sweater which i used to clean all my cables and stands with.

During this shoot Hansa from Goecker had travelled all the way up to me to let me try out Hasselblads new camera H4D-60. A really nice camera almost like my Hasselblad H2 with a PhaseOne P30 back, with the only little difference that the H4D-60 has a full sensor and 60 megapixels! Thank you Hansa for the “behind the scenes” pictures as well!

The lighting was created with two Pro-7B’s, a Pro-B3, ringflash, Magnum- and softlightreflectors.