Adam Sunds blog on Photography

2Jan/124

Video strobe review: Dison and Oubau – Danish

Jeg har arbejdet med flashlamperne Dison og Oubau, begge 600W, og tænkte at det med noget erfaring i baggagen var på sin plads at lave en forhåbentlig brugbar anmeldelse, hvis du går og overvejer køb af flashudstyr.

Det er ikke smukt, og lyden er kun lige på den gode side af forfærdelig, men indhold burde der være noget af.

Anmeldelsen tager sit udgangspunkt i de billige lamper, og jeg kan kun tale ud fra hvad jeg selv har erfaringer med, der bla. tæller Interfit, Boling, Triopo, Walimex, Profoto, Oubau og Dison.

Tagged as: dison, flash, oubau 4 Comments

27Dec/112

Get featured – show your work to the world

Every once in a while, online magazines contact me in order for them to feature some of my photos. This is a product of having your work available around different websites - some have seen my work at deviantart.com, others on modelmayhem and such. I have learned that you can never have your images too many places - all it takes is a little bit of work, but brewing a full pot of coffee and spending a late evening working on it, should do the trick.

This time, Uptempo magazine were the ones to feature 4 of my icy photos, which can be seen here on page 42-44 if I'm not mistaken: uptempomagazine.com

Last time was in Klassik magazine issue nr 9 and 2 other magazines have my images featured soon.

I've decided to add a list of places you can have your images showcased other than your private gallery on facebook. Not all of them are equally as good, but they all serve the purpose somehow - I'll leave you to decide which ones to visit.

Deviantart.com - the biggest art site world wide to my knowledge and therefore easiest to drown in.

modelmayhem.com - huge site with models, photoshop wizards, makeup-artists, stylists and photographs sharing and caring.

model.se - mostly used by danish models, photographers and stylists - somewhat less professional than the other sites.

findfotografen.dk - a list of photographers in Denmark. No reason not to be in here.

fotostart.dk - once the biggest forum for photography in Denmark - it still has a puls I think.

1x.com - Submit your images and let the other photographers decide if you're hot enough for their exclusive club.

flickr.com - create your own webgalleries with good old flickr.

500px.com - Thank you Frank

Now get to it!

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7Dec/110

Draw your world

DYW_DrawingWorkshop_PhotoBy_FlemmingHansen

My good friend and artist Kasper Købke, who you might know from this post, has started a non-profit organisation with danish cinematographer Kenneth Andreasen of staalfilm.dk, and dutch photographer Gaby Thijsse.

Their vision is to engage children all over the world in creativity - allowing them to be children and creative without concerns of what might else fill the daily life. This project is to be a much needed space to allow children to be children.

And where do I fit in?

I've worked with them from the start as a film photographer, and made this pilot video

The next step is South Africa:

In collaboration with the Dutch Tjommie Foundation (www.tjommie.nl) DYW will in late January 2012 together with an international team of creative people travel to the village Elandsdoorn in South Africa for about 8 days.
The village is a unique project for HIV/AIDS-affected families, where they have the opportunity to live together, and also have free access to schooling, shopping, sports and leisure activities, and most importantly medical care.

As all non-profit organisations, they rely on donations, so if you're interested in either the concept or even making a donation, swing by their website at:

www.drawyourworld.org

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15Nov/110

Putting new equipment to the test

I've recently purchased a bunch of new equipment from from flashogfotobutikken.dk. I've added some gadgets to my video setup, but we will go through that later.

But this time I bought two new oubau 300w flash heads after being quite satisfied with the bigger 600w version. But in this post I'll focus on something else - my new bag for lighting equipment. The brand is the Chinese boling, which is why it costs 995 DKK instead of 4000 DKK which is price of a similar Bowens or Tenba version. I purchased it knowing I had a job across sea where I had to fly back and forth. I've tried this once before with a bag from interfit that failed miserably. Now was the time to see if my new carrier would stand the test.

Attitude Hair booked me for a job in Aalborg this week, where I had to fly to their headquarters (and back again, so I could make it to the movies in the evening), so this was an opportun moment to put new bag to the test.

Here's a photo of the bag after the first part of the trip - proudly holding my 3 Oubau flash heads along with 3 light stands, a reflection umbrella and 3 keylight modifiers. The bag did what it was supposed to do - carry my equipment, and carry it well. I saw the flight crew toss around with the bag before takeoff, but everything still works.

I will of course show the finished photos from that job soon enough - Until then, here's me having fun the prints of some of my photos at their offices.

Tagged as: Boling equipment job No Comments

9Nov/110

Retouch Copenhagen – learn about photoshop

During the first 11 hours, 14 of the 30 seats at this years Retouch Copenhagen has been taken. If You want to be a part of this great initiative hurry up and visit the website of the man behind it all - Michael Bang.

He will be teaching about his approach to photoshop, where I will be doing the same.

When? Saturday 10. december from 10-17

Where? Go sign up and find out.

Peace out!

Retouch Copenhagen

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6Nov/118

A photoshop video on Youtube going through the roof

April last year, I posted a video tutorial on Youtube. It was my first tutorial in english, which doesn't come as a great surprise to those who watch it.

It had been generating a decent amount of views, but then all of a sudden this year, the amount of viewers started to climb.

1. October 2011, It had 250,000 views - one month later 500,000. At this point, it's generating about 8,000 views a day which is pretty damn good for a photoshop video on the internet.

Why so many viewers? I haven't got the slightest idea - but it's pretty darn awesome, and has definately inspired me to start doing more.

So if you have advices for any good screen capture software available out there, write it in the comments.

And what should I make a tutorial about next time?

Filed under: photoshop, Tutorials 8 Comments

7Sep/110

Jeppe and the Jazz hyenas

Working as a photographer I get to work with lots of different people - some more used to standing in front of a camera than others.

Jeppe Vig Find is one of the people very used to acting in front of a camera - he's been working as a host on childens TV and is now working with Jazz for childen.

Here are the final images. He wanted a portrait with a little twist, hence the fur, and another party crazy like photography of him reaching out for a younger version of himself.

Jeppe Vig Find

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28Aug/110

Girlsquad – commercial photography

The agency Girlsquad has been a client of mine for a couple of years now, and each time they need commercial shots done, they give me a ring, like their Christmas card last time.

Some months ago, they hired me to portrait 3 of their lovely employees in campain photos for Toyota and Carlsberg - these were the 2 final images.