MERRY CHRISTMAS

It has indeed been a full energetic year 2012. Weddings, a lot of child photography, many newspaper and company photoshoots. Last but not least it has been artistically one of the best years in my life when it comes to my project "Just People" - you can follow it closer at www.justpeople.me.
So thank you everybody for the good moments spent together in the studio or outside. I wake up every morning and I say to myself that I have the best passion ever and that my job is not a job it's a lifestyle, a way of living and giving hopefully some joyfull moments to the persons I photograph.

The studio will be closed until the 14th of January, so I wish you all, Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo, Frohe Weihnachten und ein Gutes Neues Jahr, Joyeux Noel, Felix Navidad e Prospero Ano Nuevo and

See ya next year!

Cornelia

VECKANS RAM

...and the winter has come.... it's snowing and we have minus degrees.  Which brings us in a really lovely Christmas mood, at least for me.

It's the 3rd of December and today you have 22% on all enlagarments. So for instance a 20x30 cm picture that normally costs 550:- you will get today for 429:-. Add to that the weekly frame for only 120:- instead of 149:- and you have a great Christmas present for totally  549:-. Isn't that just perfect!! So don't be afraid, just send in your order at info@arkadiafoto.com

VECKANS VARA

Denna veckan har du möjlighet att köpa en riktig fin bearbetad ram i GULD, storlek 20x20 cm med anti-reflex glas.  Priset denna veckan 290:- (ord. pris 360:-)

Begränsat antal så passa på.

CV bild

Many people come to the studio to take their CV picture taken, or portrait picture for their Linked IN or Facebook site.

The procedure is simple and easy.  After a short introduction I decide which is your best side of the face to portrait. We all have different faces and the right side is never like the left one.
Normally we have a younger side and one that makes us look older. So we choose of course the younger one and then, when the light is set we work on the expression we want to reach for the viewer.

Depending on the needs it can be a more serious portrait or a very smiley, but never too much. It should be serious but inviting.

And the most important thing in my eyes...are THE EYES, the energy that comes from the eyes, because they are the key to our soul.

When we finally sit down on the computer and have chosen THE picture, I will make sure that you will have both a colour one and a black and white for different occasions. See exempel below.

Please be free to contact me for any information or price.

VECKANS VARA

Och från och med idag så kommer det att finnas

VECKANS VARA

Denna veckan är det en jättefin träram från Deknudt i silver med lite svart ränder
Format 13x18 cm

Pris 175:- (ord. pris 195:-)

Memories of Denmark

I found a brochure from our holidays in Denmark last year and I immediately thought...I my God, the pictures...I completely forgot about them.

So, here I share with you some of the pictures taken during an evening walk at Stenbjerg in Thy , right in the middle of the Thy's national park. Here you can find some fishermen's huts, close to dunes, ehath and forestry plantation.  People come here by bike and then take a walk on the long beach.

WEDDING IN NOVEMBER

What do you do if you decide to marry during the winter months and it's cold and rainy outside?
Well there are a few options to choose from:

1) in the studio.
2) on location outside in the nature and hopefully with no rain or snow or why not maybe we get these weather conditions as opportunities to make some exceptional different shots an those you would get in a warm studio :-)
3) on location in a building, house, hotel, lobby, station, you name it.

And so this was the case last saturday when I photographed Christina and Peter at the Centralstation of Göteborg.  After applying for the necessary photo permission, we had one hour to spend at the station.

Here I would like to share with you two of the pictures from that moment.

If you are considering getting married in the middle of the winter. Contact me, we will sit down in my "salon" and sip on cup of tea (coffee works fine as well) and try to figure out what place or situation fits you most.

HÖSTINSPIRATION

En kul kväll!! Ta med din väninna och boka din plats!

FARS DAG

FATHERS DAY...

Vet du inte vad du ska ge din pappa eller ditt barns pappa som present på söndag? Köp ett presentkort för en familjefotografering. Just nu och till 30 november så kostar fotografering, bearbetning och personligbildvisning endast 500:-.

REDAKTIONELL

Hej allihopa! Hi everybody!

It was a while since I wrote last on my blogg but there were many things happening.

First of all the vernissage under the Cultural Night in Goteborg (Kulturnatta) the 12th of October where over 100 persons find their way into my little studio. It was really overwhelming to see so many people, laughing, crying and thinking after seeing the pictures. The cover picture of my book got such a great exposure in the cultural program that I got extremely happy and surprised about it.

One of the picture MUSIC MAKER whom I competed for the 1st Swedish International Small Print Exhibition got nominated and will be shown at the art museum in Ystad from the 9th of December to the 13th of January. So if you pass pay Ystad during this time check the exhibition!
The photographed basplayer Peter, a collegue of mine, got interviewed by the local newspaper and here you will find the link for the article that just came out.

http://www.trelleborgsallehanda.se/kultur-och-nojen/article1733064/Nakenbild-stalls-ut-pa-museum.html

Happy reading and sorry, it's in Swedish!

NYHETSBREV

JUST PEOPLE is growing

The last week I have been not only on holidays to wonderful Sardegna but I just continued photographing for my project beside my regular job.

Last week it was acrobat and cirkus artist MILLA. Here the link where she wrote about her experience in the studio.

http://millafloryd.blogspot.se/2012/09/not-thread.html?showComment=1348478727815

I am still looking for 15 woman and 20 man from all over the world with a specific passion.
I am also looking for a gay couple and a lesbian couple.

So if you are one of them reading this, just send me a mail.

Have a wonderful week.

Cornelia

Ord på nätet

Googlade lite runt idag på nätet och hittade detta kommentar angående Planket 2012 i Göteborg i år skrivet av fotograf/journalist Anders Andarve:

"De första metrarna av staketet hade sin små höjdpunkter. .... En Cornelia och en Moa hade foton som stack ut ordentligt. "

Känner mig rejält ärat!

KULTURNATTA MÖLNDAL

During my exhibition at Planket this year, that went very good, if I consider all the positive responses I got during and after it, a few things happened.

Thomas Alm from Wäveriet Art Studio came by and offered me to have a few of my pictures exposed on alu-dibond in his art-studio in Mölndal during the cultural night the 7th of September this year.

I feel honoured and this week I will go and hang up a part of my collection "UOMO". I will unfortunately not be able to attend myself the night, because I will finally have my holidays at the Mediterranean Sea but I hope some of you will find his way to this wonderful place that smells history.

PLANKET 2012

Come and visit me at Planket 2012 in Gothenburg, Nya Allén under Göteborg Kulturkalas 2012.

Take the opportunity to talk to me about photography, art or life!

WELCOME!

RAW FOOD

It's really time that people wake up and stop eating junk food. Population gets fatter and fatter. Everybody sits in front of the computer or TV and sports....what is that?  Well it's not up to me to have those kind of thoughts.... I am the first one struggling to go to the gym but one thing I know. Good food, good fresh food, makes a good meal and gives you a happy soul!
Today I was working on the next picture for my photo project with raw food as the important part of the message.
As usually you will have to wait to see the entire picture but just wanted to send out a reminder on how important good raw food is for everybodies health and not less important the environment.

Have a happy meal!

NIKITA

When I hear the name Nikita I always think about that song from the 80'ies of Sir Elton John. But today it is not him I want to talk about. It's a 2 year young king python lady with a wonderful skin and a lovely face. I never had a snake in my studio before, so I was a little bit concerned how she would react on the flashes. So we posed first Charlotta that takes care of Nikita and then trying to work quick but in respect with the animals nature take some pictures. Nothing but nothing happened when the big softbox flashed. First Nikita wanted to escape but the more the time passed the more quite she got and finally she was so cutely relaxed on Charlotta's hand. I felt in love with her!  Thank you girls for coming by !

NORWAY

Hello again,
I have been travelling for a few days, first to Norway and then I just escaped from there to go back to Sweden.
Both the weather and the country Norway (at least the region I visited around Gjovik) didn't really turned me on, actually I got so depressed of seing that landscape that reminded me Switzerland and the bad weather that I decided to escape 3 days after.

But there is one good memory of those day and it was one evening when I all alone, just me and the nature around 10.00 pm sat down on a rock and looked at that sky. Magic indeed, those colours .... those colours you will never find in Switzerland.....

FASHION times 10

Gustaf came for the second time to take some portfolio picture both in the studio and outside.  
After 6 months of hard training the result was clearly to see! Check out those six-pacs. Great photoshoot,
great model, great day! Thank you Madde for a great make-up and José for helping out with the umbrella out in the poring rain.

ACRILIC GLAS

Acrilic glas is a marvellous option to have your pictures print on... stable material, weather resistand, unbreakable.
Here an example that I just ordered for one of my customers. Newborn daddy Fredrik and his little son Jesper are the models!

The acrilic glas will give the black bakground the extra touch of luxury and sparkling and hopefully a lot of joy in their home.

EQUIPMENT RACE

PLAYING AROUND WITH EQUIPMENT

Friend and collegue José passed by earlier this week. We started confronting different kind of lenses.

What is the difference between 70-200 mm / 2.8 and the macro 100 mm, 2.8 which I discovered lately as a great portrait lense. So we took out neighbour Arash and played in front of the studio. Well, the 70-200 mm, gives a more smoother feeling while the 100 mm, that has a wonderful bouquet (unsharpness behind the object) is crispier. Love both of the lenses though. 

Neighbour Arash

Just me

Photo: José Campos

Friend and photographer José Campos

EMOTION IN FLOWERS

Today I feel rebellion.... this long week-end I tried out my  brand new camera (Canon 5D Mark III) together with my macro lens 100 mm / F2.8, wonderful lens by the way.
I am not a flower photographer but today in my rebellion mood I changed those pictures in my way. Here some of the works.

BUSINESS PORTRAIT HOW YOU CAN USE IT

Many small companies rely just on text for their homepage or blogg.
But people don't have time nowadays to read and read and read, they want short messages and pictures that tells a story.

Here I send you an exemple of one of my customers that uses in the right way one of the portrait pictures we took in the studio last month.

With her Companý   CECILIA of SWEDEN she sends out newsletter to her customer to show how she can help with nutrition and healthy way of living.
 
http://www.ceciliaofsweden.se/
 

WELCOME TO A NEW VERNISSAGE

Welcome tomorrow to my mini vernissage in Floda in a tattoo studio!

PERSONALITIES & PASSIONS WANTED!

I am in the middle of producing my first photobook and following exhibition.

I am looking for  YOU!!
A person with personlity or a big passion or a message that you want to deliver to the world.

Male, Female, Children, every age.

As you can see in the picture all the persons will be posing naked, but it's You who decides how much you want to show.
Why naked? Because I want to reach the persons story, not how we are dressed in today's society. I want to take away what clothes give illution of....

All persons will be portrayed with respect and in accordance to eachothers wishes.

Here some exemples I would love to have in my book:

Twins male   50-80 years
Male with snake
Male with cello
Female with trombon or trumpet
Female with 4-5 cats
Female passionate for cars
Male passionate for gardening

You name it....the list can be real long.

Do you know anyone of maybe it's you the next person to be in front of my camera?

Please contact me: info@arkadiafoto.com

COMPETITION

You can win this picture in size 30x50 cm if you know where the picture is taken!

COLOUR OR BLACK & WHITE?

In the digital photo world possibilities are various. Sometimes a portrait looks better in black & white then in colour, sometimes it's the opposite. What is more important to show?
Black & White makes the personality come forward. Colours take away the attention from the person and people tend to look at the make-up, or the jewelry, or the clothes.
In this specific case I choose a picture that can work both ways and where it's up to the customer to decided which one is the one they like most.

BOXEVENT

Svensexa, möhippa, barnkalas, personlig boxning, allt kan man få hos BOX EVENT. Pelle Löfving och hans medarbetare bjuder på riktig kul upplevelse. Idag fick jag vara med och fota en svensexa. Jag hade aldrig varit med i en ring förut. Riktig kul!
Här lite bilder på offret som fick komma ner för trappan med ögonbinda och munkmusik!

BOXEVENT

NEW FRAMES IN TOWN

Today we got in brand new frames
Check this out:

Size 20x30 cm, red   299:-

 

 

Size 20x30 cm, black/grey   359:-

Size:  18x24 cm  145:-    Gold

Size   13x18 cm    99:-    Gold

LOVELY SISTERS

Sanna & Klara came a year later to the studio to take some new photographs.
Funny overalls, lovely princess dresses and music instrument was the theme this year.

Children can be children in my studio I really try to give them the space they need.

At the end it can even look like that! The mother gets the photographer, the photographer gets the horse.