This month i’m featured on Profoto’s blog under Lightshaping Tool of the Month! The post is about how and why i use the Profoto ring flash. It was really nice to be asked to participate since i just love their blog and been following it ever since it started!
Last tuesday i shot another portrait for LAJV Magazine. This time it was the airbrush artist Linda “Flickan” Tolind. And as i knew that she had begun doing some tattoo’s as well my idea was to shoot her doing a nice tramp stamp on a guy in a suit in some kind of garage, why? I don’t know, it just felt cool some how 🙂
I called up a garage in town and asked if it was ok to shoot there. They were thrilled and we where welcome to use it!
Since my model who was to wear the suit didn’t have a tatto and didn’t want one either, especially not a tramp stamp, i had to draw one in Photoshop. Since i was doing it in PS i put in the text Bad Ass as well 😀
The lighting was set up as follows. Two Profoto Magnum reflectors with grids and a soft light reflector from the sides and the back as rimlight. A 3×4 softbox from my left and the Profoto ringflash with the white softlight reflector.
My latest exhibition Work is finally up and last tuesday i had my opening! The exhibition is in a big shopping center, Birsta City, and it’s really great having it displayed there as there are a lot of people passing by here that probably never would have seen it if it had been in a gallery!
Here are links to some articles about the exhibition (in swedish) Dagbladet, Sundsvalls Tidning & Fotosidan.se
Last thursday i shot new images for the hockey team Timrå IK. It’s for the last fight in the series. A lot of sweat and serious eyes 🙂
The images are being used in ads and posters during the last games in the series, the theme of the campaign is “it’s time to fight back!”, so there where some really determined players i shot.
As i had limited time and the art director in the studio, we used Phase One’s Capture Pilot, sending every exposure to his iPad. That way he could make his selection “on the fly”!
The lighting setup was two Profoto Magnum reflectors with grids 45 degrees from the back, one normal reflector with grid giving some light från above from the back, a softlight reflector with grid straight from the camera and a softbox behind me just helping with the harsh shadows in the face …
Today i shot for Permobil again. This time the idea was two friends sitting and fishing on the ice and getting a really big fish!
Permobil really makes great electric wheelchairs, but i don’t think they where designed to be driven in wet snow out on a lake 😀 But with some raw strength and willpower we got it into position.
all the equipment was pulled out with a small sled. The fish was pre-fixed, i bought it the day before 🙂
I got a little bit worried this morning when it was grey and raining outside! Last time it rained during a shoot one of my Pro-7B burned due to water getting into it! But we decided to give it a shot anyway and just in time when everything was set up and ready the sun came!
The models did a terrific job and after a lot of screaming and tossing fishes where done! Now there is some retouching that needs to be done before it is ready for print!
The lighting was two Profoto Magnum reflectors with grids 45 degrees from behind, one softlight reflector on my left side and Profoto ringflash with the white soft reflector. This was powered by two Pro-7B’s
Yesterday i shot some jewelry. It’s a new line of jewelry that is designed here in town. They wanted pictures for a catalogue and also images that would work in adds etc. I made some testshots for another company long time ago that never was used for different reasons, so this was a really great opportunity to use the same theme as then, jemelry shot in charcoal! 🙂
I got a table on which i built a small landscape of charcoal in which i placed necklaces, rings and bracelets. It really turned out great! I’ll post some images here when they are all done!
There was a big trade fair in Germany recently, ISPO, which Prosharp attended, in their booth there was two big prints of my images.
Sometimes some things has to be done fast without the possibility to put in hours of Photoshop into an image. Just like yesterday when i helped Per, the drummer of Corroded, to shoot two images to his sponsor Paiste. I think we worked alltogether 20 minutes, 10 minutes of shooting, 10 minutes in Capture One and then the image was more or less finished!
We chose two images and then with the help of masks and the possibility to copy settings to several images in Capture One we did all the work in C1. Basic settings as Saturation, Lens Correction and Clarity can make wonders with a rock drummer! 🙂
The lighting was super basic, one Profoto 3X4 softbox form the right, nothing more …
A couple of days ago i shot the last of a bunch of new images for YOHIO to be used during his (yes, he’s a he) release in Japan.
We shot for two days and he has two characters which we did. 19 images where chosen, so i had some editing to do …
For the lighting i used both the Profoto ringflash and the Profoto softlight reflector, used together to make everything so even as possible without making it totally flat!
Soon i will open my new exhibition! Starting in january there will be an exhibition inside Birsta City. I’ve actually already started by hanging some of my recent exhibition, but in january i will officially open with a lot of new material. Ofcourse there i will have some of my old favourites but also a lot of new ones!
The exhibition is titled Work and will show just that, work i’ve done during the past years!
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