Days at work

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.

The advertising agency Sweet Williams & POP is putting together a big campaign for Sundsvalls Tidning (a Swedish newspaper) and was asked to shoot the four pictures they needed. Last friday we went out to shoot the first two. The first one was in a big lunch room and after some up and down-going with the elevator we had everything we needed and could start to set up. After some moving people and lights around we had our picture and it was off to the next place.
The second picture was to me shot in a kitchen. Since i needed some “night light” through the window we put some lights outside the house as well. This picture was shot in two steps, first we shot the person sitting inside the house, and then the picture for the outside part of the picture.

All the images i’ve made for Prosharp is really my little darlings 😀 They have always trusted me by giving me more or less free creativity. The images have been very popular at shows and in print.

The other day it was time for yet another image for them. We had discussed some ideas illustrating the theme they wanted for this years image, speed. They wanted to show that a pair of skates sharpened with a Prosharp skates faster than the competition.
We had ideas of old ladies jumping around on the ice but after a while we came up with the idea of a little boy skating faster than a couple of big icehockey players. Props and models needed to be fixed and Elin from Prosharp did an excellent job interperating my sometimes not so clear thoughts! 🙂
We took the image in three seperate shots, one for the boy, one for the hockey players and on for the background!

YOHIO is an artist i’ve shot several of times, it’s always great fun! Just the other week it was time for another shoot. This time it was promo pictures for his new fragrance! It’s a parfume produced together with FACE Stockholm.

This is how the Lucia-image turned out (you can read about the shoot here). It ran as a full page add, that’s why it’s so “tall”, i really like it! All the models where shot individually and put together in Photoshop. The town below is made out of different images of the old stone houses here in my town. The moon is drawn by me from scratch.