Days at work

Now i’ve delivered the images of Hank to their record label. I really like them!

I do a lot of portraits for different companies. Everything from consultants to salesmen and like today a hairdresser! Sometimes you don’t need more than a smile and a beautiful red hair to make a great portrait!

Last friday i went to the university to shoot a portrait of two persons working on some kind of project where they find ways to get companies to go outside their “comfort zone”. At least i think that was what they did, not entirely certain exactly how it was …

The fun part was that i’d found a really cool stairway that they could stand on and then it would look a little bit like they floated in mid air! Little did i know that both of them was really scared of heights!

I lit the shoot with one Pro-7B and i had to raise the lamp head quite a bit, lucky for me that the pack weighs quite a bit so i could use it to prevent everything from tipping down over the ledge!

So true!

Yesterday it was time for some rock’n roll in the studio! The new band Hank releases their first single now on thursday and needed new pictures. The idea was to shoot them real clean without a lot of things and stage cloths. I shot them first with a white background and then dark grey, looked really cool with their black cloths!

You can almost instantly feel when you’ve got the picture, especially when you shoot this clean. We sat and looked at the shots afterwards and could see that even if two pictures almost looked identical, it could be a a pair of eyes or the way someone stood that made one great and the other a disaster.

I used my Profoto ProBig as the only light source in front of the band. It’s amazing i don’t use it more often since it gives such a great light!

Our soccer team GIF Sundsvall is getting ready for the climb up to the top this season. I got the mission to help them with som pictures. We shot all the images inside the arena, the sun was shining even if it was kind of cold. Lucky for my i could take the car all the way in where we was to shoot, so no more carrying to day!

I set up my gear and my computer and we started shooting. I used my car as a desk/sun protection since the sun was so strong.
We took both action and more posed pictures, we got some clouds at the end of the shoot but it turned out great anyway!

When i had packed everything in my car again and was getting ready to go home the car didn’t start! I had by accident left the ignition on and the battery was dead! Lucky for me one of the guys working at the arena helped my out!

OK, weird ideas usually is my thing, but to put a man in a badrobe in a GoCart while he’s eating a pizza and getting a massage at the same time actually came from someone else! It was the idea for a car repair firm that offers their customers free Gocart racing, massage and pizza while their car is being serviced.
So after a lot of setting up, moving and lifting go carts and of course shooting we had a image we where happy with. Now all that i had to do was to sit down with my computer for some hours!

SPV has been a frequent customers for the last couple of years, it has been everything from stock-like images to shots for specific campaigns. Yesterday i shot images for a conference they’ll be having later this year.
The idea was to shoot images of a cone filled with candy and the candy would symbolize the different options you can do with your pension.
The ad agency was there and had their hands full, literally, with candy. Trying to get the cone to look as good as it could!

About a week ago a shot for a campaign for a car repair and sales place. We shot in the middle of nowhere and it was really cold, the sun was great though and the sky was as blue as can be! The idea was to shoot a guy looking really lost in front of two road signs that we’d got made for us. Of course i had found the perfect spot to shoot which forced me to stand in the middle of the road, having to run back and forth the camera, ringflash, computer and all the cables each time a car came!

The add just started running and it looks great, let’s hope it has the desired impact as well!

Just had a another shoot with YOHIO, it was an extra picture for his japanese album release. Just as usual his whole entourage came with him to the studio I think this had to be the fastest and most effective shoot we have had together, everything just fell into place! And as soon as he had found one shot he liked we where done! But as no big surprise it was panic to get the image ready, so i spent the whole day after retouching it to perfection!

The finished image turned out great, the combination of a super rad artist and a cool guitar just can’t go wrong i guess!