85mm test shoot with Brita

In my last entry I wrote about the new camera lens that I got. Shortly thereafter Brita and I went out to Berthåga, nearby where we live, and took the lens for a test run. She's wearing a second-hand dress and jacket that we got really cheap. Second-hand could be such a great place for modeling outfits, so much cool (and many more weird) stuff!



These photos are all shot with f1.6 and ISO 50, and the only things adjusted are some colors, vignette (actually the lens did most of the vignette job though) and post-resize-sharpening.







Last one at the fence is my favourite, and Brita's too I believe. :)



I have a bunch of more photos to finalize, pics of Steph and Jözz, Ophelia, some more from an other shoot with Brita and some cosplay sets. Currently no photo jobs which actually is a good thing right now, makes me able to have some more motivation and extra spare time to actually clean up the backlog. :)

Ophelia Overdose - Photo shoot

Last week I had the pleasure to shoot together with multi-talented German model Ophelia Overdose (@miss_overdose), while she was visiting Stockholm and Sweden - she's not only an awesome model but also a costume designer, make up artist, hair stylist, etc. Here's a few previews from our session.



I was quite nervous before she arrived at Emil's place (thanks for letting us be there btw!), but I'm really glad I got to meet her; she was very sweet, helpful and GREAT to work with.

We shot two different outfits. First a set with her own designs, in an area that were a bit steam-punk-ish / post-apocalyptic. From this set I have a whole bunch of photos that I really love. It was below a bridge that I go past twice every day, commuting.





Afterwards, Ophelia changed into a army style latex dress from the fashion brand "Westward Bound" and we went down to Gamla Stan and "Riksdagens hus" for the second set of the day.





More photos will be up when I'm done sorting and picking out my favourites. There's so many of them! However, I wished that I would've had more time to plan a cooler setting for the shoots - next time! All in all, it was a great experience and it was so much fun to meet a model that I've followed, both on deviantArt and Facebook, for quite some time.

Photo Competition - demo dreamland

My photo of Brita got accepted to the photo competition and was just shown on the big screen at Revision. In total there were around 30 entries, some really good, some were bad - so quite a variation. Here's my contribution, it's called "demo dreamland".



I'm totally excited that it was approved and shown. Now just hope that other people here like it and will vote for it. I like it, do you? :) Cheers!

Sneak peak from the shoot today

Shalom.

Today I shot together with Verena on an ice-queen-themed set, she's the winter fading away. Here's two preview photos until I can get to selecting, sorting and editing the rest of them.



Verena did an awesome job and we also had assistance of Stephanie and Josefin (thanks!) with make up fixing and pose-help. All in all, a great photo day and I'm sure I'll shoot with Verena again.

Going strong

Recently I upped a few shots from my shoot with Júlía that I'm quite satisfied with, if you haven't seen them yet, go look at http://www.carloscar.se/photos/view/id/1750-julia___sweet#/.



Tomorrow I'm off to shoot together with Verena in Stockholm, the plan is to do something on the winter/cold-theme maybe with a spring/warm twist. We'll see how it goes, but I'm certain we'll manage to produce something nice.

By the way, I've also ordered a white wig (!!) that should arrive in the coming week that we'll try to make something cool with. Maybe it just sucks, maybe it's awesome kiva! ('kiva' is the new cool word in town.)

Development status. Next up I have to complete the studio photos from Confusion and thereafter the set with Helena. I'm also going to put up some pics from the skiing trip to Trysil where Brita, her mom and I were last week - nothing fancy but it's always nice with great views of nature.



More off, I've made some changes to the thumbnails on the site. Hopefully it'll work better and you should notice quite a difference in load times. Oh, and I've switched the facebook comments instead. So now it's easier to comment (and like!) a blog post. Go do it, try it out. :)

Portraits of the latest week

Last weekend some local friends and I went down to an anime convention called Confusion, in Gothenburg. It was their first event and was probably quite successful. I worked together with some nice people in the photography team and you can see some of my photos at http://www.carloscar.se/confusion. It was all fun and I met some really cool people that I'll try to hook up some photo-time with later on.

While I was visiting, a friend that I've met through DreamHack, Annie B. (http://anniebeckman.blogg.se/) offered some space in her appartment where I could sleep (thanks!). We also managed to produce a small set of photos with a couple of small LED-lights. Here's a preview.





During the event I also managed to plan a shoot with another one of those DreamHack Crews, this time it was with the cool Julia G. so I met up with her at the museum where the event were held, borrowed the studio some and I think we used almost 900 frames. Shitloads to go through that I haven't had time for yet but here's at least two photos from the shoot.



Just two days after the event I got some fever and felt totally crappy for many days, still coughing. I've pretty much slept through the latest days but I'm finally up and running again. So today the sun was shining and I met up with Helena K. (guess what, DreamHack Crew again) and we went to Lappis where I used to live and shot with a few different sets of clothes. This is what it looked like.



I'll put up three new albums for all these sets hopefully during the coming week or shortly after that. It's nice to have some more people to take photos of, I'm all excited. :D Tomorrow it's time for some work work, nice to be back again. :)