Saturday, February 26, 2011

Creep of the Day: "Michell Svensson"

I guy calling himself "Michell Svensson" is contacting models via MSN claiming he got work for them with H&M and SATS, saying they will have a long career thanks to him.
Strangely enough he does not have any pictures on his MB account: http://www.modellbilder.se/portfolio.php?id=60851 and on his recruiting page he can not spell and all model pictures are very small, just like they have been taken from the net: http://www.123minsida.se/modellkollektion1/47899642

His phone number is +46-707-1245XX  and he is claiming he lives in Malmö, and he is very eager to have the models to call him.


Does anyone recognize him?



Update 12:17Z 26 Feb, 2011

The links above do not work anymore since the guy been banned from MB and taken down his models recruiting page. But the model who helped me with this case have a log of his claims and I have saved his pages in web archive.
Thank you all dear models for swift action stopping this guys in a matter of hours!

Update 18:48Z 26 Feb, 2011
"Michelle" just called me and gave sincere apologies promising not to do anything like this again. He also say that it was he who removed the page on MB. He still tried to talk a lot of trying to explain to himself that it was not that bad, even saying a friend got him into it. Yeah, right! "I have a friend who was on this porn site, and he said..." :-)
But I trust him that he learned a lesson, and he promised to give apologies to the model and photographer who's pictures he used.
Lesson's learned... I hope.


/Morre

Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Canon Ixus 75 IWFF project

How many dinners and beers can a professional photographer earn working with a pocket camera in Thailand? I am about to get the statistics!

In a couple of hours I am off to Phuket, Thailand for well deserved vacation. Actually, it is the first one since January 2008. Back then I was on Phi Phi Island with models, shooting for a British publishing house for a month. The stay was so great I still call it vacation. (Thank you super-models!)

When staying at one of our locations, a luxury villa in Phuket, I played around with my Canon Ixus in our pool taking underwater pictures of one of the models. The result can be seen below and I was pretty pleased.





During my VIP tour for Models-n-Shoots I challenged myself shooting "impossible shots"; once again with my pocket camera, this time in badly lit bathrooms! Just shoot and export - no editing allowed (OK, I did make one into black&white).
But hey, it did not turn out bad at all.









So why not raise the bar?
When I am in Thailand, I will try to shoot people with only my Canon Ixus 75 and if they like the pictures, they will have pay me with dinner and beers.
How many dinners and beers do you think I can earn? :-)

/Morre