Thursday, November 13, 2008

Comedian and a nice ass

Dropped dead in my flat at about AM 2 on Thursday, got some hours of sleep and then packed all the gear in the trunk of a SAAB and headed for Malmö.

There I had a shoot for LKPG Magazine - a portrait of a Swedish comedian, Anders, from the creative duo Anders & Måns. The written piece for the magazine I got hold of minutes before I got in the car gave me nothing about him, just what he had done.
Not having an impressing means no angle of attack. For this shoot that was not all - I did not even had a location!

Thank god I have some friends running the restaurant at Mayfair Hotel in Malmö and they also have an old nightclub, Tunneln (The Tunnel), for rent. They kindly allowed my to use it for free and even gave me food and loads of Coca Cola, badly needed after days of traveling and lack of sleep.

Due to no input and lack of sleep, I was really blank until I met Anders. He showed out to be smart, fun and energetic so I just took it from there.
The good thing of working with an actor/comedian is that they are daring and have a lot of good faces to deliver. For them, a shoot for nothing compared to standing alone on a stage giving a stand-up.
To get some cool shots, I was running around in the abandoned nightclub turning sofas on their end just to get a colorful red background, using a half-dead plant I thought looked hilarious, and the lack of interesting clothes I gave him my favorite wool sweater and told him to ware it backwards.

Well - you tell me what you think of the images. The difference between these pictures and the finals ones is mostly the lightened plant and some small skin-errors that I corrected.

After the shoot with Anders, I had a training session since a friend of mine wanted a some nice pictures of her beautiful behind. The "poor" waitress of the restaurant had to volunteer as an assistent and had to apply the baby oil. As she said: That is not a bad start of getting to know someone. :-)

After the shoot, I once again find me driving late a night and of course it was horrible weather. Really glamorous job being a photographer...

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