Lucifer's Rocking Chair

Here is a few more from the Cancer Bats show in Odense. I think I like the black and white better but that might be because that was how I shot them. But here they are and there is more on the Flickr.

No more concert shots for now.

Darkness Lives

A few days after the Trap Them show I went to Odense to catch up with my friends, the Cancer Bats. They were playing their first out of two Denmark shows so I thought I might as well bring my Camera along. I'm no band/concert photographer nor have I any intension of becoming one. I have noticed increase of cameras in front of the stages at the last many shows I have been too. It puzzles me a bit. It also makes me feel guilty when I'm standing there with my camera. I'm not trying to be cool or get in on a trade that is already more than full of wannabes. I guess I take that with coming from tattooing. I hate when I see tattooers who are just in it for the coolness factor. I don't take band pictures because that's the new cool thing to do. I don't say that the people I see in front of the stages do that either, I'm just surprised how many there are these days. I like to take pictures of people. I love it actually. I thrills me. I love seeing the world through my cameras. That doesn't mean that I think that I am a professional photographer of any kind but neither do I feel the urge to be one. I am a tattooer and that's what I do for a living. This photo taking thing however has become a great passion and an addiction to me.
I don't really know where I was going with this but I guess I had to get it out.

Anyway...I chose to shoot both in RAW and JPG (BW in camera) in case I wanted to go for colour later. That turned out to be a pretty good idea since a lot of the shots actually turned out pretty cool in colour. Now I am sitting with the problem of having to convert from RAW to JPG so it might take a bit longer before the colour shots gets here. It also means that there might be a couple of the same shots in the batch but I will try to mix it up.

We had some really awesome days hanging with Bats & crew. You guys are awesome.

Click a picture to go to my flickr for more.

Darker Handcraft

I went to Hamburg to visit some friends there and catch a show with my buddies in The Kandidate. They were opening for Rotten Sound together with Haust, Gaza and Trap Them. The lighting was so bad that most of the time there were no direct light on who ever was singing so I ended up just snapping some pictures of Trap Them who I had been looking forward to see for a while.
Because of the lack of light I decided to go all black and white and crank the ISO to get that grainy film look. Funny how we try to get our fancy cameras to work like and old camera.

As always, press a picture to go to my Flickr

Grey day

After two days of spring and sun, rain and grey weather can really bring you down. Can't get myself started on anything. Well, there is always photos to be uploaded.
I need to take new pictures soon. Should have been in Japan right now where I can't turn my head without seeing something or someone I would like to take a picture of.
Gotta find my picture soon.

Tiny landscapes

Here is the original shots from the shoot for Amalies hats. No filters or fancy stuff.

Scroll down to the post before this for links to Amalies shop and blog.

The girl with a bird in her hair

My talented wife made these amazing hats and I was lucky enough to get to photograph them. Our friend Christel stepped in as a stylist and her sister agreed to be the model. We took the pictures at a local park on a sunny day. I got a bit of help from my canon flash with a softbox.
I used to be all about not doing anything to the pictures in photoshop and I still am to a certain degree but I think it was a reaction to all the people who didn't really cared about taking the picture but more what they could do with it in photoshop. Recently I have found it to be quite fun to add stuff to my pictures. I think of it more like adding a mood more than actually fixing up my picture. For me the interesting part is still taking the picture and not the editing part. These pictures however is obviously photoshopped a whole bunch. I will post some none photoshopped pictures from this shoot soon... just to show the real ones too.

You can still buy some of these amazing creations on Amalies Etsy shop. Right now there's even a chance to get an awesome hairpiece and support Japan at the same time so go check it out HERE and HERE and her website HERE

As always, press a picture to go to my Flickr.