I hope Sarah's and Olle's first weeks as husband and wife have been just as perfect as their wedding day! Now they can use the secret code to log in and see their private photo gallery with hundred of portraits!
A couple of month ago I met with this couple for a very private photo session when they were expecting their child. Today I know it was a cute little baby boy and I am soooo happy they let me show their photo here on my combined blog and web site.
Photographers note: I used only natural light from the windows using Canon 5D MarkII with lenses Canon 50mm f1.4 and Canon 135 mm f2.0L.
This Saturday a year ago was a perfect spring day for a wedding, and what a wedding it was when this gorgeous couple got hitched at Såstaholm Gård in Täby, Stockholm! Happy anniversary!
Photographers note: The effect was created by using a Lens Baby on my Canon 5D MarkII body. Only colours, levels and contrasts have been altered in Photoshop.
When I had had the booking appointment with Sarah and Olle in September last year they said that they shouldn't really have a theme for the wedding and that they didn't want to make a big thing of it in terms of planning. But when they showed up on the wedding day I have to say that everything was so thought through with a beautiful spring bouquet with buttercups, roses, peonies and blueberry twigs, bright pink shoes (!) and even matching braces! Sarah was beautiful and the team at Puder had done a really good job!
When I left the chapel at Hammarby Sjöstad I met the rest of the wedding party and I just had to say hi to them and take a few photos of them as well. Luckily for me the light in the pretty crowded stairway to the second floor was quite okay for some 30 seconds of shooting!
It's spring time and yesterday I had the first of many wedding this spring and summer. And what a start! Sarah, I hope you don't mind me saying this but girl, you're soooo wrong! You definately know how to work it in front of the camera and the camera loves you, there's no doubt! As promised I post these first photos today but I will post some more photos later when I have had the time to post process them!
The photo on the left below was the last photo from the portrait session and I love, love, love it!
For all photographers who follow my blog I can mention that when I came home I realized that this is the first time I actually have used only one lens for all portrait shots. All photos - except the photos on the rings - were shot using Canon 135 mm f2.0L on my Canon 5D MarkII body. For detail shots I used Canon 100mm f2.8 macro.
I have got soooooo many more e-mails from photographers all over Sweden than I had expected - and I looove it! I really would like to meet you all - and who knows, it might happen some day! - but for now I can only promise to let two of you come along during weddings this season. How did I choose? Well, I have actually stuck to what I wrote initially so I have selected two persons which have proven that they love wedding photography! Who they are...? Anneli Larsson and Sara Landstedt! I really look forward to meet you! Please call me to find a date (you have my phone no. in my reply by e-mail)!
And of course, a photo from today's wedding at Hammarby Sjöstad. I will post more pictures from this wedding soon to prove the bride wrong... She told me she doesn't photograph well but she definately doesn't know what she's talking about, because she is absolutely stunning!
When I launched my new blog I gave you the opportunity to come with me on a real wedding, see this post. I have received sooo many nice emails and by the end of the week I will announce the name, or names..., of those who will get the chance to spend a day practising and discussing all aspects of wedding photography with me. And yes... the last picture below is a photo of me in action, shot by my great wedding photographer colleague and friend Anna Roström at Smallpigart. The result from my crawling on the floor? Well, you can see it above, the photo of the wedding rings!
I don't think anyone can miss that I love colours and I have to admit that such a simple thing as a colourful flower - or in this case a vegetable! - always cheers me up. Now a special message to my husband follows: No, an orange carrot as present doesn't make me smile the same way as a delicate spring flower!
Because I haven't updated the design of my website since 2007 it was about time I did something about it! I started to work on the new site for quite some time ago but I have been so busy (which is a good thing) that it took me a bit longer than I had hoped for to get it ready. But, now it's here and I am soooo happy about it!
Early on in the process I new I wanted a site that is light, clean, new and fresh, combining the blog with the traditional portfolio website and shows my photos in the best possible way for clients, clients to be, colleagues in the business, friends, family and yes... practically everyone! I asked Robert Eldrim at Medljus, who is a photographer but also a great web designer, if he could help me with some design ideas, and yes, what you can see now is all based on the great initial drafts he came up with! I want to send a BIG hug to both him and the people at Vektorgrafik that made it all happen, thanks guys!
To you, my blog readers, I want to say a warm welcome! I hope you enjoy the site, my photos and that you want to talk to me and each other through blog comments and in every other way possible that you can think of. I love to get comments on my work so please feel free to speak your mind here on the blog and also to share my site with the world and to link to it whenever you want! And yes, you can write in both Swedish and English but I'll stick to English most of the time because of my international blog readers. So, WELCOME and enjoy my site!
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