Days at work

Summer is here and so is vacation, may it’s not hard to notice on the amount of posts i’ve done lately 🙂

Here is the finished image from the shoot we did earlier this summer of the barbeque-guy! It’s used in ads where there is text over the cars.

Shot a new image for Bilhallen this week. Their mascot, Stefan, was standing in front of a grill with a bunch of cars behind him. The agency had already found the location for the shot so all i had to do was to go there and start setting up the gear. I had the art director as astand in for Stefan as he would come when everything was all set. As the sun was on it’s happiest mood today Jimmy had to lay on the ground with a jacket over his head to be able to see the screen as i shot 🙂

I had some issues with the reflections in the cars, but i shot all the cars individually so i fixed that in post!

Permobil is a company which i have been working for quite some time now, and the other day i went out to their division for custom fitting to shoot some new pictures of their operation. The models, besides their chairs :), was of course the people that work there!

I lit the images not to advanced since it’s supposed to look natural. I had one light in front that was mixed with the ambient light and then one back light to make them pop out of the background. We did five images in total this day and now there is just some fixing to do before i can deliver them!

Just found an article about me and how i photograph on a russian web page 😀 I guess much of the content is gathered from the article on Profotos blog, but great to see that it spread to a russian site! Now i know how to spell my name in russian!namn stavas på ryska!

Link to the article (in russian)

Last week i started shooting a new campaign for Bolagsverket (the Swedish Companies Registration Office) to promote their services over the Internet. I shot two persons at their head quarters in Sundsvall. Now i will continue with six more images on different places. I’ll start by heading off down to Lund, Landskrona and Halmstad next week.

I’m just about to pack and go back after a couple of great days at Fotografiska! I’ve attended the Commercial Portfolio Review, which basically is like speed dating but with international reviewers. Friday night they had something called Open Portfolio Night where reviewers, participants and any one interested could come and look at all the participants portfolios. I had a lot of people looking at my portfolio and a lot of nice words!

From the feedback i got during this weekend it feels like i’m on the right track 🙂

Yesterday i shot some new images for the band Soreption. I had found a really cool place where we did three different locations. If one is afraid of getting dirty this was NOT the place to be 😀 I spent quite some time cleaning my gear afterwards! It was kind of hard setting the light as i wanted, alot because all the rocks and stuff that was there, but on the other hand the rocks worked perfect to put the lamp head on when i needed a low light!

Now there are a lot of images to sort and choose from before i can stort working on them in Photoshop!

Today i have been shooting clothes in the studio all day. It’s a company named Mittplagg who needed some new pictures. We made them a little bit different than before, we let the models use a small trampoline to jump up on each shot! This was to show how easy it is to move in these clothes. There was quite a lot of different clothes to shoot, both on models and on a puppet.
We had a great time all day! Everybody did a terrific job!

Just got this picture from Prosharp. They just hanged the four framed prints they got from me! Looking good! 🙂 Printed and framed by Procenter in Stockholm!

SVT Play has a documentary about YOHIO (whom i shot a couple of times). Check out episode 3 for a glimpse of another cool guy 😉

http://www.svtplay.se/yohio (in swedish)