Photographer

Magnus Lorentzson

Fine Art photographY

People

Moi ? I find photographing people really exciting. Portrait is The Thing.

I always wish there was more time, resources and opportunities to sit and think about where to go – find exotic places no matter where, ponder the choice of lenses, decide what time of day to shoot so that the light best reflects the purpose of the image, whether to use flash or work with natural light, and so on. It would have looked so good here on the website too – if I only did that, if it were a prerequisite for me even getting off my backside and making it to the location for the photo shoot.

Reality? More often, without a forest of tripods for far too many flashes – just me and my favourite 24–70mm f/2.8 lens.
How are my favourite portraits taken? Eeehhh… With flashlights. Why..?

Preparations, flash or no flash, backlight, the model in a staircase…  I find an immediate joy in comparing the result of a photography I’ve taken with the image of that picture I’d pictured (!!!) in my head. Then editing it and letting it take on new expressions is simply wonderful.

There’s never a straight path to follow when it comes to this business of photography. In less than a heartbeat, the expression of the model, the person in front of the camera changes – just as quickly, it’s replaced by yet another. And so it goes on, and on, and…

Is the model tense, stressed, feeling under the weather, angry, distracted? The body reveals everything!
How can I change the circumstances?
How do we get along in the aera of the shooting?
How can we create a positive, funky, creative cool vibe working flow? Right there, right then…

And then there’s the eyes! THE EYES! Aaaaahhhhh. So beautiful. So difficult. So expressive. Sometimes. Sometimes not. Sometime “Do you mind wearing sunglasses?”

All these nuts… One I haven’t managed to crack is how to capture the actual experience of the me – model encounter in the saved image file. The smell of the place, the sound of laughter between takes, the anxiety of the battery level dropping far too quickly…
I still haven’t found the ‘Attach Essence’ button in Lightroom, but I’m sure it’ll turn up soon…

I’ve deleted more photos than I have left on my hard drives. You get used to kill darlings when having a digital camera!
But when you finally get it, capture it, find it, shoot it… …THE PHOTO… …then it’s..   ..it’s..   it’s hard to describe. Not only because my English is lousy (short break for laughter)  ((OK, I’m back again)) no, but, It’s like your positive emotions are having multiple orgasms! It’s pure magic. The feeling is probably like scoring that decisive goal after full time in the final, I imagine. I was always picked last for every sport at school, so my experience is purely of the in-front-of-the-TV kind.

Have you heard my story, the story about Sissy?
No!?! OK. But you have too. Click here to read it!