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TFP, Portfolio and Stock with Mariam

Published on March 23, 2010 in Photography. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

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

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Camera shutter in slow motion

Published on March 20, 2010 in Photography. 0 Comments Tags: .

This is cool! What happens when you pull the trigger? With 2000 frames/sec it´s easy to see. Canon 5d. Found this on Robert Bensons nice blog.

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Illustration to photo

Published on March 19, 2010 in Photography. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Its so hard to describe an idea of a picture with just words. I try it occasionally. And it often shows up that I gave the wrong explanation, or simply the client visualized it another way. Then its nice to have some kind of visual idea of what a picture would look like. To be in sync with the client, even a loose sketch on a napkin can make the two of us think the same way. And I am not depending on the clients ability to interpret me.

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Annie Leibovitz opens Fotografiska in Stockholm!

Published on March 18, 2010 in Photography. 0 Comments Tags: .

194 pictures! Great news for us living in Sweden/Scandinavia! The Grand Opening of Fotografiska in Stockholm will be May 21 and  Annie Leibovitz and her  exhibition “A photographers Life 1990-2005″ will be opening the museum. Many of the pictures are showed for the first time.

The exhibition takes about 1000! square meters and is organised by The Brooklyn Museum, New York.

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Do we need more pictures?

Published on March 18, 2010 in Photography and Thoughts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

dilemma

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

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A picture? What is that anyway?

Published on March 18, 2010 in Thoughts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Well, according to  common knowledge it may be a photo, an illustration or some kind of reproduction or this or that and so on. In communication we don´t analyze this much, do we? We see pictures and images everywhere in our everyday life. A photography can be digitally altered or not, it can be black and white, it can be lightened with virtually thousands of lighning modifiers including available light. What we see is a picture. An illustration can be made in thousands of ways on thousands of materials, and we still recognizes it as an illustration – or simply – a picture. That´s nice! (A Google search of the word “picture” gave 532,000,000 results. Thats a lot!)

In a small design studio we have to deal more with what kind of expression we want to give the product than should it be a photo or an illustration. It is often no borders between brush and ink, illustrator/photoshop or photos taken on location or in studio. Its about to choose wich manner that suits the project.

Since this is the first post on this blog, this is an explanation of the mix of photos, pictures, images, layouts, logos and designs that will show up on the theme “what is going on in the studio. I try to erase the borders between illustrator/photographer. I make pictures. Hope it will be inspiring!

Torbjorn

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