Photography is forever a very fun profession, always new things to learn, always room for improvment. 

This is my very favorite of the 18 pages, I coached the groom before we shot, did a few practise runs. He was so good at taking direction and having the right expressions. I love the placement and spacing in it, remember with studio flash I cant shoot 9 frames a second, but get one attempt per jump. We only shoot a few because it just worked so well and we got it on one of the first attempts.

One of my favorite things with this image is the luggage. I brought it with me from Norway in a 40ft container when we moved here in 2000. The small brown one by his feet is one I found at a used store that was exactly like the one my GrandPa always used going to work. So it was exciting to find one and get to use it.

As you can see Mary had a good time using this prop.Best of all you really get contact with her eyes even with such a little part of them showing. What a great girl she is.prp

I think the old style pop bottles look good in there. Again I have to compliment Tyler and Mary for their energy and expressions in every shot.

You can tell how Mary enjoy hassling him. I love his nose. This is another shot where I really like the spacing between their upper bodies. I'm very particular about looking around them before I shoot, especially between them. It makes a difference to have the peace and graphich from the fine tuning in the pose..

I sure enjoyed this shoot, usually we have at least 3 different brides and no groom. Working with them the whole time helped us to stay in the zone and to get a theme having the same feel about it from beginning to end.

To see the whole magazine click on this link: Utah Valley Bride 2013.

Have a great weekend, I will have a new blog post Monday from a cover shoot of the band Neon Trees in Hollywood. 

Kenneth who loves his Elinchrom lights and his Canon cameras.

People often talk about posed vs unposed. If you watch a movie every single shot is (posed). Try to think of creating situation, here is a simple one, dancing. The good thing about controlled posing is we can make sure they look good and have good light. It is very rare to see well lit flattering angels on the couple from 100% candid shots. So maybe try to think movie?

I love old cameras, this on is a Bushman 4x5 that was given to me back in the 80's by a retired Accociated Press photographer. It's the camera you see on top of my head in my FB, branding head shots. If the camera could speak I'm sure it has seen a lot. BTW I love Jimmy Choo shoes.

Even the little Yo-Yo makes him get a natural body pose. She is busy trying to look though her glasses and be cool :-)

People really free them self up if they can put on sun glasses, masks and so forth, they are suddenly way less shy.

I like the closeness of their heads but still have a little space rather then smooching them together. and have parts of their faces covering one another.

I often joke about the groom being a prop in the brides pictures, here he is :-)

PS. I will post the last 6 images in 2 days, thanks for stopping by.

I have 18 pages of an editorial shoot I did for Utah Valley Bride magazine back in November. The magazine just came out so now I can blog from it. The hardest thing with using models instead of having a real couple is the chemistry  between the models. These two models from an agency was fantastic, look at their great expressions, the way they interacted. The exception to that is in a picture like the first one underneath where I wanted them to be serious and look in the camera, most people seem to be good at that :-) 

In this picture I wanted them to be serious and straight like pictures was almost always back in the day of no flash, slow films and looong exposure times. It was easier to get it sharp that way.

This page is the left side of a 2 page spread that started the article. It also contain some of the shots they did not use put into the film strip.

For this one we cranked up the music loud for him to dance to, love her expression. They are kind of in their own worlds but I think her look ties them together. BTW right side of the spread.

The other years I have shot editorials for this magazine we have shot it with multiple brides and all full body shots. This is the first year with one bride and also using a groom in almost all of them.

I have a silver scatboard in my studio, with 90ft/30m lenght and hard wood floor in there  it can be used to move about . The scate board works well with his silver vest I think.

I love the great interaction between them in this one. This is the last image for today, I will post two more blog posts from it during this week. I have not have anybody editing my bad english this time, so forgive me for the writing part, well I think most of you rather have bad englsih then good Norwegian?

Collecting Cameras New and Old.

Collecting cameras can be fun and inspiering, cheap and expensive. Like the most valuable camera to me is my first camera I got when I was 12 and it will never be for sale in my lifetime. With internet it has been very easy to find what you are looking for, ebay is an amazing place to find the rarest and best.

Old cameras you can find in pawn shops, flee markets, garage sales etc. Even some camera stores have old cameras for sale, I once bought a cool green Leica copy for 50 Euro in a camera store in Budapest. Cameras are so decorative and can be a great prop, it can also be a good investment. Like with all collecting it is usually best to collect 2 or more of something, that way you will be able to let go of one, and help finance the one you want to keep. To many collectors get stuck with all they buy because they can't let go of anything. I do know it's not easy to always get two of many cameras.

One great kind of cameras to collect is toy cameras, it's amazing how much it is to find, a kind friend of mine got me a digital Barbi about 10 years ago. Pink and all :-) His name is Michael Gilbert son of famous photographer Al Gilbert of Toronto, Canada. Some years ago he had an exhibition in The Photography Hall of Fame with 40 or so images displayed next to the toy camera he had taken them with. What a fun project, we need to keep photography FUN if we want to be our best as photographers.

I know I talk to much, so I will post a link that is great for camera collecting. Collectors Weekly.

If you want to see a fun online collection with great links, then go to my Pinterest gallery called "Cameras" the gallery have 1104 images and growing full of fun, rare, old and new cameras. I also have a gallery called  "People with Cameras " which have 497 pictures in it,. This kind of collecting is even FREE and always available. Enjoy!

Underneath is an example of cameras some fun, some cool, some rare, but all enjoyable.

Kenneth the Crazy Viking.

BIO NICK VEASEY:

Nick Veasey was born in Kent (UK) in 1962. His work questions the way we look at what surrounds us, he says that 'the X-Ray is a honest process, it shows things for what they are, what they are made of. (…) It balances against all that glossy, superficial "bollocks". I'm real and straight forward, and so is my work.' Rather than creating images that spark one's desire to be someone else, it highlights the internal structure from which appearances originate. No matter the shape, the color, the texture, our everyday lives are made of molecules and we are all on an even footing. Awarded 'Photographer of the year' by I.P.A. in 2008, his X-Rays can be admired in many international collections, both private and public (Victoria & Albert Museum of London (V&A), the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, and even the Contemporary Art Museum of Taipei. 

 I think Nick can explain his work process much better then me, so I will post a couple of videos.

This 13 min long TED presentation gives you a great overview of how he works and think, I love his sense of humor. 

Nick was comissend by Victora Secrets to photograph plants of all things.

I'm posting some of my favorite images. but if you go to my gallery named Nick Versey on Pinterest I have more then 160 images there + several videos. Most images links to articles and blog posts about him and jis work.

Nicky Veasey imagery utilised in a current Lucozade advert in Great Britain.

The second car I owned was a white  Austin Mini 1000 I loved that car.

This video explain seceral things the Mini project, i took around 500 exposures to make this shot and I think I heard somewhere that the cost was around 20 000 Euro?

Love the use of space in this image.

Amazing use of space and a fantastic composition in my opinion.

I love Vespa's I used to have a White 1971 Vespa 125 Super worth a lot today....

Link to Nick Veasey's web site: nickveasey.com

His blog: http://www.nickveasey.blogspot.com/

Again, link to my Pinterest gallery with Nick with 160+ of his images +videos 

Nick Veasey books on Amazon.com

Lo Olschner, Hamburg, 1954 Photographer: F.C. Gundlach Ocelot coat by Berger

I think black and white sometimes is the perfect retouch tool and take away things in color in the picture that will fight for attention. It gives it a great peaceful feeling. This image is from 1954 and I do not think black and white has gotten any better over time.

I think Herb Ritts is one of the greatest photographers of our time. It was so sad when he died in 2002.He was only 50 and died of complications from pneumonia. One of the high lights to me was to see a whole exhibition of beautiful black and whites photographed in Africa. I find black and white very powerful in graphic images like this one.

One of the greatest photographers today is London based Norwegian photographer Solve Sundsbo (age 42) an extreemly talented photographer with a great ability to choose color vs black and white at the rigth time. Here is a link to tons of his work in Google images.

I love this image by Arnold Newman of Igor Stravinsky, New York, 1946 Many years ago I was fortunate to spend some time with Arnold Newman and his wife. They invited me to come and visit them in New York, but sadly enough he died before I was in New York the next time. An amazing photographer with a great heart and love for our profession and so willing to shear. RIP Arnold Newman.

I miss Irving Penn so much, what a master of B/W! Penn did 158 covers for Vogue, yes it is right One Five Eight which of course had a great influence on photography. I'm posting my all time favorite cover. It's the Vogue April 1950 issue, model is his swedish born wife Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn who he married the same year.

Amazing Black and White Modern Architecture Photography - Wajid Drabu

I want to finish this blog post with a great modern image by Wajid Drabu. This image would never been as powerful in color with all the colors it would contain.

We are fortunate to live in a time where we can deside after we shoot if color or black and white works best. Digital is great but I love good film shots in black and white printed on great silver based paper.

It is so many more great photographers I should have shown work from in this post, photographers like Richard Avedon, George Hurrell, Karl Lagerfeld etc etc. If you click on thier names in this paragraph it will take you to previous blogs I have done on them.

PS. ALWAYS remember english is my second language so bear with me :-)

First link today is from a blog post on Fashion Photography Blog entiteled:The Colors of the Rainbow are all around us.

Photographers have discussed their prefrences for color vs B/W since the birth of color film. I love both and one of them will always work better then the other. One of the greatest things about digital photography is how it gives you the oppertunity to decide later. I remember the days too well, when many of us would have 3-4 backs with different films for our medium format cameras or/and use multiple cameras. 

COLOR THERAPY: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HOME DECORATING is the name of the next blog post that deals more directly with the theraphy effect of colors, enjoy.

Third, we are going to look at a great illustration about the psychology of color. Here is a link if you wish to see it larger, I sure prefer that.

Fourth and last is a link to my Pinterst board called Color (good use of it, inspiring...)

On the board/gallery you will find about 150 images most of them with great links to blogs and articles on color. Just click on the images. I sure love colors and I hope you do to. This board/gallery is where I keep my inspiration from color images and also lots of educational info. The 3 images used in this blog is picked out from among the many images in that gallery.