In the last summer weeks it was time to produce some new activity pages for Hemmets Journal. As usual the work on this batch has been going on for a couple of weeks. They are fun to do and they keeps me a little in touch with my former work as a comic illustrator. As I have said earlier I draw some of the pictures, but to be able to keep the whole production slim I often by illustrations from the collegues on iStockphoto. I then make and construct the puzzles.

I really hope the kids will like it!

Ever wondered how it would feel to be in focus by paparazzi cameras the whole day?

I read on The Insider that you can rent a paparazzi for a day, to be treated like a star. Obviously many people around believe you are a star for real and you will get V.I.P. treatments in bars and clubs. Silly!

In this shot Mimmi is the model for a stock shoot, and I was the one pulling the trigger

Last weekend we did a trip to Österlen to look after our cabin and to visit my parents in law.

The apples in Kivik are beginning to be ready to harvest and we took the opportunity to take some photos for stock.

In the shadow from the mid day sun. Axel and Mimmi posing.

This is a fantastic mess of people  working on the little pizza, trying to make it look as good as possible.
There is also a hand model talking about the art of holding a pizza slice the right way. This is a nice bts movie that itself alone would be a nice ad for the pizza company (Dominos Pizza). It shows the hard work making a pizzaslice looking good enough for for us to eat.

Last week we shot some “live” pictures for the pub Kuntze in Sankt Gertruds Restaurants.

I got help from Erik, Mimmi and charming Maria who is working at the pub, She had some time over for helping us being a talented model. The pictures should have a snapshot feeling and have the light of a warm summers evening.

“Coorporate, Cecilie Stranger-Thorsen, independent media consultant based in Malmö, Sweden

She works in all of the Scandinavian countries, focusing on cross-media and media education projects, arranging seminars, writing and lecturing.”  She is also a witty facebooker with a lot of humor.

It´s easy to get inspired by David Hobbys STB (Shoot The Bloggers) project wich he just started, but have several interesting thoughts about. In short, the idea is to shoot freelance corporate portrais while you get the opportunity to pull the camera trigger and experiment with ideas of portraits on different personalities. It´s a win-win!

We had fun and altered between full stdiolightning, available light in the studio and mixed speedlight/daylight. All this to get a broad range of pictures useful to Cecilie in several occasions.

Luckily the studio has three large windows at northwest and if the weather is good they provide a nice, soft natural light to use. In worst case there is one or two huge trucks parking outside the windows, delivering beer, wine and food for the restaurants in the block. The only chance to get decent light then is to trigger the Elinchrome studiogear…

Once a week Sanna (from Veckans Middag.com) is providing a nice recipe and a cooking tutorial for the online grossery store Hemmalivs. My pleasant task is to shoot it and to taste it now and then.

This time we decided to shoot outdoors since the light seemed to be nice. A small Speedlight as fill, and a silver reflector whas all it took to even out  the soft evening light.

The peppers were among other delicious things stuffed with cottage cheese, bacon, Feta cheese, fresh cheese and garlic!