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30Oct/102

Working in Forum

Now three weeks ago, I've spend a total of 38 hours in Forum where I've photographed 319 individual covers for the participants of the Lifestyle convention for the danish magazine Femina.

I was hired by Girlsquad, who had a booth at the convention, so with a white backdrop, my beloved octabank mounted on my Triopo 600w, and some rimlight shaped by my big softbox on my Boling, I started shooting.

When I say 319 covers, I mean shooting from 1 to 5 people at a time, choosing the final image, open it in Photoshop and applying the graphics - a process that ended up taking 2 minutes in total. I was the bomb.

I shot in Lightroom 3, which was the easiest thing I've ever experienced. The tethered shot function worked without any low key engineering needed, and I was able to do some presets, so that the images came with higher contrast, increased vibrance etc. (I had no time to photoshop, so this solution was a fine one).

Check out the   Friday gallery for examples.

My good friend and colleague Bertil-Melhof Pedersen over at fragmenter.dk did some BTS shots of it all.

29Oct/100

Interview on Somethingwelike.com

"What do you think about the Internet and how it is affecting our lifestyle?
The internet is my only source of living, promotion, getting out there. It’s the absolute most vital piece of gear I have to work with."

A while back, I was contacted by the person in charge of the photo/graphics blog somethingwelike.com and asked to do an interview.

Today, this interview was released, and if I wasn't me, I would read it - it some quite interesting questions in it.

The interview

28Oct/100

Controversial Photography – Jonathan Hobin

The image above is by Jonathan Hobin, a canadian photographer and art director who just happens to make awesomee and provocative scenes - especially in his latest series called "playroom".

In short terms, he uses kids plays to illustrate taboos in the grown up worlds. Provoked?

Check out a bunch of the images at  THECHIVE.COM and read all about it at his website.

25Oct/100

Arev Manoukian creates art – a fantastic short film

Some of you might have noticed a shift from only focusing on photography to also paying a bit more attention to music videoes and the film media.

A month back, I decided to explore the world of film- and video making and have had my first short film experiences as a film photographer. I've also joined forces with Copenhagen Records, more specifically their "BETA" department which makes documentary videoes on their artists. So far I've worked with Peter Sommer, Simon Quamm, Silja and Carpark North - which have all been fantastic people and experiences.

But this does not mean that I'm leaving behind photography or is converting this blog to something different. There will still be lots of photo geeking, photoshop and me doing tutorials. Fear not.

That being said, do yourself to check this short film out by Arev Manoukain. I saw it about a year ago, but was reminded of it today:

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

and the making of it:

Making Of Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

22Oct/105

Next big photo event – your ideas

God created the world and said "Let there be light"

And finally us photographers had something to work with.

After the light came the SPARTANS

and the AMAZONS

followed by a FREAK WEDDING

which resulted in WOMEN BOXING

Next year, YOUR idea for a shoot can be the one we do in the streets of Copenhagen.

So post your best idea for the Annual Photo Event in Copenhagen in the comments below, and become a part of the crew and storywriter of these kick ass shoots.

17Oct/100

Mom, look I’m on TV

A few years back, I was called out as a assistant/computer tech for a photographer, who needed someone to manage the computer while a film crew was shooting for a tv show about people loosing weight.

That computer techie was me, and three days ago, I found the clip, seeing it for the first time.

So I present - myself:

The photographer is Heidi Maxmilling.

15Oct/100

Shooting Rachel once more

Not long ago I shot some press photos for the danish musician Rachel which actually ended up in C'est magazine.

This time, the beautiful Rachel was made a bit more predatorial, and all though I can't reveal the final image yet, I CAN show you the video made at the shoot:

The video by Bertil-Melhof Petersen

9Oct/100

Video: Understanding sync speed with studio lights

Surfing the web has proven to be good idea time and time again for me at least.

My latest discovery is these very well executed videos on photography. Do yourself a favour and watch it.

And link to the video

7Oct/100

Video tutorial: Portrait of Kasper Købke

Earlier this summer I did a photo shoot with danish upcoming artist Kasper Købke, an amazing artist who does drawings in huge proportions as you can see HERE.

A reader of the blog asked me how I did this specific image in the postprocessing, so I decided to show it in this walkthrough video - enjoy:

link to HD version

1Oct/101

Photoshop: selection and extraction techniques

Photoshop can be used for many things regarding retouching and image optimization, but when it comes to photo manipulations, extracting parts of images and making composites plays quite a big role.

As with everything in photoshop, there are many ways to make selections and do background extractions.

You might know the old extraction tool which has been excluded in cs 4 and 5.

You might know magic wand tool and it's successor quick selection tool.

But there are also things like color range - using channels - background eraser tool.

Here's a quite useful link going in-depth with the different ways to make selections and extract along with guides to the specific tools used.

Enjoy the link

   
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