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Shooting food.Week´s Dinners; our little book

stacked copys of Weeks Dinner

Last autumn we decided to do a little side project, for fun and inspiration.  We thought it would be nice to produce something of our own, with no special customer ordering the job.  Sanna, project manager on our studio Centralateljén (and also my lovely wife) is running a nice food blog, Veckansmiddag (Week´s Dinners (not 100% sure of the translation here)). We decided to work with a little book, inspired of Sannas blog with dinner menus for all days of the year. The book is inspired by the thought of eating low carb food.

We had great fun! Sanna constructed  menus, Peter wrote text and I shot pictures and  layouted. Sanna and Peter even constructed a site, (Enkla Boken.se), as a small web bookstore.

The book is simply a bank of ideas of what to serve for dinner.

Week´s Dinners, spread

Some of the pictures were shot at home at the dinner table, with all the hungry kids waiting for dinner, others were shot in the studio.

To decorate the text we needed several  food objects on white background. I really like to layout with this kind of pics!

vegetables

salt

This was just a couple of samples from the little book. We have quite a few ideas for more books, and are hoping it will be time for us to put some of them together soon.

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TFP, Portfolio and Stock with Mariam

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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Product shot on white

I really like to shoot products on white. No clipping paths. The shadow shall be real. I like to set the lightning so it just needs a little fix in photoshop to be really white. A swedish customer, SBM Fordon, needed some of their products shot for advertismement purpose.

OK! It´s for nerds! I know! But it´s fun! Here is a lighning scheme!

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Do we need more pictures?

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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