After waiting almost nine months, Beppe and Hannes are finally out. Our family went from small to big overnight, and now the juggling begins.
I will try to stay at home as long as I can, two kids needs a lot of hands.
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Every now and then, I wish for more comments and more interaction on this blog (as well as the Swedish photo blog I post more stuff on). Sometimes I even complain that it is too silent here. Thousands of readers, but only a few comments.
Then, all of a sudden, I get this e-mail from a guy:
Hi Stefan,
I think reading your blog, the day before my first corporate assignment, may have saved my life
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First of all, the clam shell technique proved the be very flattering for the sales and management team and they quite liked the results.
Secondly, when I entered the offices, I saw that all walls (no exceptions) were (very) dark grey and I was instructed to have a white background. Your simple trick of using white paper sticked to the wall, was all I needed.
So, thanks for that.
What can I say? Even if I don’t think I really save lives in my profession, it is very satisfying to know that with just by sharing a few tips, I can help others learning a thing or two just by writing it down and posting it here. The same way I learned studio lighting, and still do. By reading, and asking. And trying.
But, there has been an increase of communication I think, and that is fun. Maybe because I have posted things that are easier to comment lately, even if I really don’t know exactly how. It is a lot easier to comment on my Facebook-page, or even on Flickr, but that’s the way things are.
If you have any suggestions on how to make this blog more comment-friendly, please let me know. I would love to have more communication, and less just me talking.
Recently I had the luxury of having on of the posts on my blog featured in some way on StumbleUpon. It was a post describing the lighting setup with three lights for a business portrait.
The day before, I had 426 visits, the same day the link was found by someone using StumbleUpon, 2918 visits were registered by Google Analytics.
A nice increase by 685%.
Profoto, the makers of the studio lights and light modifiers I use almost daily has a really good blog, with a lot of interesting content.
I have had the honour to be mentioned in their post three times now, the first with a blog post on clothing photography for a Swedish designer, the second from a portrait session with a young model and the latest was when I tried to take good product photos of pills and plastic bottles.
Now they have added even more content with the addition of three lighting videos that I think are really great. Maybe a little too long, and a little too much talk, but the summary when they show the final photo in different stages of lighting together with a lighting diagram, it makes everything really easy to understand. If you are getting bored by the talking, fast forward to the last 20 seconds or so, and there you can find the summary.
I’m back from a long vacation, and just added another time consuming social network to the list, Google+. Add me if you like, even if I have no idea what I will do there. Not yet, anyway.
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