When you’re photographing food, your tabletops and backgrounds are important. Luckily, making your own tabletops is pretty simple. Let me show you how i make mine. I make my own tabletops from MDF board. MDF is a good material, primarily because it doesn’t bend or warp, like plywood often will do. It’s also easy to cut and it paints well, …
At the PSK street music festival
It’s been a while now, but in May i had the opportunity to be part of the photographer crew at the PSK music festival. My company has been working with PSK Events, who are the producers of this festival for punk, ska and hardcore music that is held in Stockholm every year. We have been helping them with their online …
A charging station for my camera batteries
You know what it’s like – your chargers are either missing or tangled up in a mess every time you need them. So were mine – until recently. I have a couple of Nikon DSLRs, a Fujifilm camera, a couple of compact Nikons, some power banks, a few smartphones and whole bunch of rechargeable AA batteries for flashes and LED …
Photographing in the cold
In “I don’t live today”, Jimi Hendrix sings “…no sun coming through my window. Feel like i’m living at the bottom of grave”. An american friend of mine who spent a winter in Sweden said he thought Hendrix must have written that in Sweden. He may be right, because Jimi Hendrix did indeed spend some time in Sweden. Anyhow, it …
Photographing concerts
What’s it like being a concert photographer? Surely, you’ve seen them – the guys and girls with their cameras, working in front of the stage or in the middle of the crowd. It looks like a glamorous job, doesn’t it, to make your living going to concerts and taking pictures. Have you ever wondered what it’s like? I have. I …