What´s going on in the studio?
Spent the day shooting food with catering chef/food stylist Maria Dahlquist from The Food Company for a magazine article later this spring.
The idea is to produce pictures with strong, saturated colors , in contrast to traditional scandinavian food photography. Lets see if it is possible. We´re not really used to that…
More pictures to come after postprocessing. Here is one I couldn´t resist to upload.
Food styling: Maria Dahlquist, The Food Company
Coffee!
Java Jive! The old jazz song from long ago. Spotify tells me that it was The King Sisters that played it. An ode to coffee! Sweet! And that was long before Cappuccino, Espresso, Macciato, Latte and all that was in reach for us common people.
I love coffee!
We are lucky enough to have our studio in the same block as the fantastic Patisserie David. Nothing is like his pastry! Or his coffee! This is located in the older part of Malmoe a block called S:T Gertrud. Sometimes when I wait for the coffee tho get colder I shoot a picture or two of the coffee I bought from him. Perfect for selling on stock.
We drink lots of it! I truly think that there is an almost visible connection between coffee and creativity. But thats just me…
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A while ago I was lucky enough to do a shooting with Mariam. A truly talented musician. And an overly talented model as well. We shot several scenes in different lightning, but our main purpose was to make pictures in a 1970-1980:s stylish, soul inspired way, with clear light and strong colors.
It´s real fun to shoot on blownout white background.
The images are going to be used as portfolio for Mariam, in my portfolio, maybe be used on a coming album, and part of them sold on stock. And every other use that may show up.
To our help we also had Sandra, a really skilled stylist, working hard all day.
We had also planned for some really moody, dark pictures with an on stage-feeling.
Lots of Photoshopping…
Mariam in moody jazz shot
I love pictures! I believe we all do! Pictures are everywhere, all the time! Champions and masters in memorizing recommend us to visualize in pictures to be able to memorize strange combinations of numbers and such things. Then pictures simply must be good for our brains! Just think of all pictures that have been made since the beginning of picture (when was that?). Everybody is sometimes drawing and photographing something. Sometimes I think everything has been drawn or photographed already, bearing in mind how many pictures are being made each day. By amateurs and by pros. 24-7! But I may be wrong.
Often when starting a new photo or illustration project for a client I check up whats available on iStock or Shutterstock or maybe I Google it. First impression is often that everything of that topic has been covered. (When designing a brochure or similar for a cost sensitive client its often sufficient with some good stockphotos.) But taking a closer look of whats available it shows that there is always a need for one more picture. A search on a stockphoto site for “woman, bicycle, outdoors” can give 2 000 – 4 000 hits! That´s a lot! There is a picture for most needs. But if I want a specific environment, color of the bicycle, clothing on the woman, lightning situation or anything else specific, it may have to be one more picture made! Luckily!
Do we need more pictures? Of course! Definitely! Let´s go on and make pictures until exactly everything is pictured!
Torbjorn
