Mooney training

Time to take my favorite airplane out for a spin: Mooney M20J SE-LBV.
This time with an instructor to fresh up my skills on the type, kind of type PC.
The sun just broke out of the clouds so I reallt do not mind!
Good timing with the PC; if everything goes well I can take LBV to Gothenburg to visit the photography fair and do the shoot with Hiram.

See ya there!






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Location:Åkerbogatan,,Sweden

"She said she was 18!"

Yesterday, after a couple of beer, it happened again...

First  time was in 2005 before the days of Morre Photography's now pretty funky models' database. A model sent me an email to our modelsearch email saying she was interested in working with me. I browsed through her specified data and looked at the included pictures of a pretty fit, beautiful, 18 year's old blond girl with seemingly newly invested breast. When looking at her topless pictures an eerie feeling arrived...
"Her name... Her surname... That is the same as my first chairman of the board in my former company Roxen. Could it be? Nah? She lives in this city but do they live on the same address?"
So I checked her up on the yellow pages .
"Pheew! She does not have the same address as him."
A couple of days later I bumped into here down town and after addressing her almost the first thing she says is :
"Yeah, and you know my dad!"
Gaaah! This was her! The little girl I have been playing with at my colleagues house, riding on my shoulders laughing was now grown up, standing in front of me ten years later! Some fuses blew in my head! It is just... weird!
It's like: Does her dad knows about her doing topless pictures?
And the mindset as her as the little innocent, shy girl laughing on my shoulders do not mix at all with the trying-hard-to-be-sexy girl in front of me.

And yesterday it was time again. I was getting home with my friends after a couple of beers, Morre on stage singing karaoke, and the late night kebab when I heard someone calling.
"Morre! Morre!"
I turned around and an 18 year's old blond girl was smiling towards me so I approach her.
She says "Hi!" and she probably see my confused face so she then says "I am xxx" and telling me here name.
The problem is I am horrible with names! I cannot remember them!
But she had a pretty unusual name, so after repeating it and saying the magic words "My dad is XXX" i finally got it.
Oh! Once again pictures of me playing with a little kid rushes over me. I guess it was twelve years ago I saw her at a dinner at my colleague's house, and played with her having fun. She was 6 then!

I learned over the years so this time I do not show at all what is going on inside my, just making some jokes about it, and she continues:
"I wanna take nude pictures or at least really sexy ones! Or nude! I have a friend, I want her to join to! We can be naked both. Yeah, I already had sex with her."
For me it's fine. I have seen everything, heard everything and experienced a lot, and during a shoot it is just work.
So I guess I could help here and her probably also 18 year's old friend.
Or... Well you know... Her dad would kill me if I do!!!

So what should I do? I mean, everyone that is 18 or older has the right to make their own decision and why should not people I know be able to get good pictures. On the other hand that would be risking my friendship with my old colleague.

What is right? Tell me.

/Morre

PS. The title is one of my favorite standard jokes. Why not try it yourself:
If someone yells at you "WHAT have you done!?" and you have no idea what they are talking about, just shout back "She said she was 18!"
Or if someone wakes you up on the sofa just sit up straight and shout the same.
Works every time. :-)

 This is the first one I am talking about. Yup, we did shoot and she is still funny and lovely.

Gah! I seriously need to find my models!

OK. My traveling and shooting schedule is getting a bit out of hand. I really need to get my sh*t together and book the models I need to provide the pictures wanted for my clients, and my own portfolio training.

Here is my schedule and need so far:

•  Gothenburg 10 April: 2-4 models for a hair styling shoot for Hiram
•  Sälen 15-18 April: Fashion shoot for Paula Myo and portfolio shoot for me
•  Bergen & Trondheim 21-25 April: Portfolio shoot for me
•  Ukraine 30 April-9 May: Vacation!!! First since Jan 2008... But I will shoot some there too...
•  Warsaw 13-16 May: Meetings with some new clients and of course shoot
•  Helsinki 20-23 May: Same as above
•  Hallstahammar 28-30 May: Most fun photography meet of the year!! Be there or be square!
•  Linköping 5 June: Release party, hostesses needed.
•  Motala 12-13 June: Miss Bug Run hostess needed

and more shoots during the weeks with model needs will show up.
Right now Nelly.com will take a look at our database and so a company looking for models for a TV commercial.

So if you want to get those jobs/shoots: contact me on Facebook!

First longboard ride

Yeaaah! First ride of this season was done on my way to a business meeting for our secret project. Yup, it will be something nice for photograpers and models.

And I will ride some longboard together with Alex of http://longboard.eu when we take an airplane and go to an event i Norway 22-24 April. And I will go to Bergen & Trondheim on my portfolio tour. So you NO models, keep your eyes open. :-)

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Part of a chain

I'm on a meeting with a client trying to synk whole process from sales team to the final print.

Being a commercial photographer is more about collaboration and communication. A good picture is a lot of time the result of good preparation, at least it inceases the probability to get it right.

What do the client want to communicate? What style do they prefer? And just easy things like who should be in the picture can go wrong if not the sales team do their job.

Free as a photographer? Nah, more like free within boundaries.
I've been framed! :-)


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Ghostbuster's gear: the results

Staying at a three star hotel is not the best location you can get, but what the heck—the shoot was all about testing a new lighting gear and having some beers with friends.
The biggest problem with the rig was getting the light stand to not tilt from side to side in the backpack. When doing you could not move around without being sh*t scared of dropping the beauty dish or getting the light in the right directions. Some assistant from my friends and some silver tape took care of the problem, but I will modify the newly bought backpack so the small light stand I used will not be able to move at all sideways.

The second problem was moving around. You feel like an unbalanced ghost buster moving around with that thing on your back and over your head, and you can easily bump into signs and doorways.
But as soon as you are outside it works ! Even so, I found it better to be alone and not using any B light, since having having to instruct an assistant was cumbersome. With the Ghostbuster gear you have enough to do just handle your own dish and camera at the same time. The light was good though, but I guess two assistants is better for a main-n-B-light shoot.


But I found the way of using it once we started playing around with it in front of the hotel. Since the crowd filling Elmia Motor Show was this weekend, we had a bit of an audience since many of the stay at the same hotel.
Just to give the audience the show they came for a started shouting instructions "as seen on TV" to Angelica and Jenny:
-Work the camera, bitch!
-Yeah! You look sexy! More like that!
-Show me your f*cking tits!
and similar could be heard miles away... :-)

Well, here is the unedited shots from the beer session. More pictures on Facebook.

Satellite shoot?

Sooooo... What do you do if want good light but want to move fast? Normally I have two assistants, one with the backpack and the main light, and the other assistant with the B light. Tonight I will try if you can do it alone or with just one assistant.

Later folks! :-)

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Location:Huskvarnavägen,Jönköping Municipality,Sweden