Back to the 90s!!!

This part is so good in so many ways. Makes me a bit nostalgic.
We need more dirty raw street skating now. Less millionaires on skates...

Ricky Oyola - Eastern Exposure 3

K-O!!!

Shot this as a comment to Kelly Kline´s photo of Matthew Polly getting a punch in the face for his book cover that I had some problems with earlyer this week.

Kelly used 4 1DmkIV and 8 (I think) Profoto pro 8 with 3 strobes for every camera, getting 40 f/s in total.
In the "behind the scenes" video it seems that this is the only way to do it.
Well I just had to do it with one frame.
Took my brother who is a boxer and had a friend puch him a few times. Came out good, have a good one on probably 8/10 frames.
This took me about 10 min to get the lighting right, 10 min to shoot and another 10 min to retouch.

Lighting setup:
One sb 800, 2.5 m up, behind the camera on 1/4 power.
And one quadra from behind on each side on about 1/4 also.

I want to say that I don´t compare us as photographers, just wanted to make a point.
Everything is possible with imagination and knowledge.

Look at her blog to see the youtube clip and some text around the photoshoot.

kellyklinephotography.blogspot.com/2010/10/tapped-out-boo...

Kelly Kline:

Boonphotography:

Nova got pop!

Just did quick tryout of the new elinchrome quadra-kit I just got to the office.
2 acc on full power on each side with the 18 cm reflectors.
Looking forward to put them to the real test...

Just wanted to try this

Just took some sand paper to do some kind of border on the actual 4x5 neg.
Not really how I wanted it to be, but I´ll keep experimenting and see what happens.
Shot from the boat from Helsinki back to Stockholm earlier this year.

Don´t know about this...

If you need that amount of cameras and flashes, I would say you are more of an technician than a photographer.
This is exactly what a skate photographers do with one camera. Capturing a 1/1000 of a sec when the trick looks just right with one push.
I often hear that I need a "fast" camera to shoot skateboarding so that I can pic out the right frame. Skate photography is more preparations and experience than anything else.

Yes I know that this is a promotion film for Profoto, but I just felt it needed to be said that it can be done done with out a +50 000€ equipment.

Stockholm finest!

Today I got up early to go downtown to shoot the RONIN bike-messengers for a collab with them, D.A.M.P. and S.O.S. clothing.

I know most of the guys from before and it´s always fun to meet up with the them.
I have to say I admire there love and enthusiasm for riding there bikes, even on a cold and wet morning like this.
I have a series of portraits of them that I´ll have a look at as soon as I have the time.

Ride safe guys!

Ali for HUCK magazine

Shoot some photos of Ali for HUCK magazine a few weeks ago.
Here´s two of them...