1Mar/110
Beauty makeup and photography
I've worked with Mia Thielsen, silver medalist in the European Championships in makeup (only beaten by this guy) on a couple of occasions and in January, she asked if I wanted to do some beauty shots of some lips. She would bring the girls - all I had to do was shoot the images. So one friday evening, she showed up with 3 lovely models, who would later be victimized by Mia and Myself. If it looks like green slime, it probably is - there is not signifigant post production here.
Mia Thielsen used Glo Minerals, which has later contacted us and requested the images for print.
Oh yeah, and here's what happens when a photo session gets spiced up with a little bit of Rum and a makeup artist behind the camera.
17Dec/101
Girlsquad Christmas card – photoshoot
The strange thing about blogging is that I often feel quite busy with work, but never really having any new stuff to showcase. This is ofcourse because of the fact that photos often have release dates, which means that showing them before on my blog would kinda ruin the whole surprise.
I've just finished the quite extensive post production of press material for the band Rebound Rubies, and hopefully I can you show that on blog soon.
Until then, here's a shot used as a christmas card for the danish event agency Girlsquad
If you snoop around that big thing called the internet, you might find a picture that looks somewhat like this. While this is not a replica, we WERE inspired. 
The photo is a composite of:
model shot in my studio
The bottle neck of a champagne
Sky
Add a couple of layers with smoke from explosions, some minor adjustments to the whole shenanigan and you've got yourself a christmas card ready for shipping.
30Nov/100
Help portrait 2010 in Copenhagen
HELP-PORTRAIT IS A GLOBAL MOVEMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHERS USING THEIR TIME, GEAR AND EXPERTISE TO GIVE BACK TO THOSE IN NEED.
Yeah, you would think that someone could find a better way of saying it that I would - so I found someone who did - the international help portrait website.
Last year, the Celebrity Photographer Jeremy Cowart came up with this idea to offer his time and gear to those in need and who didn't have the means to pay a professional photographer for images of themselves or family. This concept spread to a bunch of countries within no time, and as far as I remember, 59 countries were engaged in this no-profit concept the 4. of december last year.
This year, we do it again. As last year, a whole bunch of photographers meet at Stilleben, the studio complex in a northern part of Copenhagen to shoot people for free all day.
I did this last year, but there were not that many people taking advantage of it, so I ended up shooting some of the other volunteers and my dad who was a sponsor that year.
Hopefully more will join this saturday, so spread to word or even better, come for yourself - if not for the photo, then just to say hi.
Oh yeah, and here's the danish site.
23Nov/100
General update and old photos
I haven't had new images to show in a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't been shooting.
At this point, I have finishes photos from 2 sessions with artists from Cocoon Music. The images are press material and single covers, but since the singles are yet to be released, all I can do is wait to show you guys the work.
You might remember this video from one of the shoots.
Until then, here are some old images from a couple of different shoots that i dug up and edited.
9Nov/102
Photomeetup Copenhagen 2010
This past saturday, hundreds of models and photographers were summoned to a deserted cargo building outside of Copenhagen. The photographer and blogger Michael Bang had spawned the idea for such a gathering and had hoped for 20-30 insterested, but the facebook event exploded into a staggering 450+ "attendies".
Around 250 people showed up, and without hesitation, models and photographers mingled and started shooting on this fantastic location.
I grouped up with a couple of old faces and a few new, and we did a total of 3 setups during the day. Thanks to Frank Visler, Michael Lykke Fog, Jimmi Larsen, Poul Majgaard and Camilla Hansen (and Bertil Melhof-Pedersen who joined at the last second) for putting up with my crazy and sometimes stupid ideas.
Unfortunately I didn't get to talk with nearly as many people as I would have liked, but I guess I'll just have to make up for that the next time (you already on it Mr. Bang? )
Here's a small video that one of the photographers made
And here's Michael Bang BehindTheScenes photos from the day
4Nov/100
Shooting Rebound Rubies for a JBS campaign
About a week ago I had the pleasure of shooting with the lovely Rebound Rubies once again.
I've shot some of their previous press material, but this time, things were a bit different.
Things had changed a bit since last time, and now the band had just signed with Sony music and were to do a campaign with JBS underwear.
This resulted in us going in the studio to shoot for three different things - all in one day.
We arrived at Stilleben (the studio) at 8'o'clock in the morning, and took a taxi back 19.30 in the evening - in that period of time, we shot the campaign for the JBS which can be seen right here at JBSyourself.dk.
The first pressphoto (comissioned by JBS) is now on Rebound Rubies own website, and soon the cover and press photos will be released.
If you haven't checked them out, do yourself a favour and do so. They sure got themselves some talent.
Until then, enjoy yourself with some behind-the-scenes photos from taken by JBS and my great assistant Aske Rif Torbensen (who's stuff you might wanna check out - he's a rising star).
Here are a few of the final images for JBS - the rest can be seen at the sites I linked to earlier in this post.
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.
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:
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