So it’s very often that I am shooting women in my shoots so I think it is extra fun when I am able to shoot with some male models and shooting the More More More t-shirts we have had in a few hunks so I present to you the men of More More More!

All the photos are taken with 1 light with a beauty dish as the lighting tool.

/Ryan www.ryangarrison.com

With all the snow we have been having I just thought I would share a photo I took this winter. Have a good weekend and enjoy the snow while it last!

Ryan www.ryangarrison.com

Today when out I rarely ever see anyone photographing with film. In most cases we take a large amount of our photos in our mobiles sacrificing quality for convenience although the quality of the images in mobile photos is getting better and better every day.   I myself photograph much of my personal day to day moments on my phone.  And nearly all the rest of my work is done in digital cameras or at least in to a digital back. But to be honest a big part of me has really missed the purity and honesty of photographing analog. It is a felling in film that I just love.  So during one of my last shoots when we were all done I just wanted to take one portrait using some 400 iso slide film after the shoot it was then processed at regular c-41, giving a very interesting tone. Although much more time consuming I think it’s just something so pure so real about a negative. I have a feeling that my analog cameras are not going to be fully at rest this year and I’ll be spending a bit of cash on rolls of film For those of you who have never worked with film before I highly recommend it. This is a great way to learn how to photograph and be careful getting it right. Really having to meter the light and thinking about your composition since you can’t just hit the delete button and you only have so many frames per roll. For those that want to get a systems camera but don’t have the cash, getting a analog camera is a great way to go. Just last week I bought a camera i found on blocket for 400 sek :- of course you will have to buy film but you could shoot quite a bit before you will come up to the cost of a digital systems camera and by then you will be a photographic ninja (if you shoot in manual that is).

Model: Kornelia

Makeup artist: Therese

/Ryan www.ryangarrison.com

So it has been 20 years now since we saw the first version of Photoshop and it is safe to say that the picture world has not been the same since. Every day we open magazines, newspapers or walk by billboards and movie posters that’s images have at one stage run through this ever so powerful program.

I remember back when I was going to high school in the 90’s and first saw this program. I knew from the get go that this was the future of photography and here we are today and without a doubt it is.

Photography’s most key ingredient is still the camera and the image captured in it but the importents of postproduction in Photoshop cannot be denied with the standards set thanks to Photoshop (for good and bad). I hope however we can hold on to the roots and feeling of a photographer with a camera and not let the photo manipulation completely take over but instead let Photoshop be used as a tool to give that final touch and enhance the feeling already in the photo. I’m very exited to see what the world of photography has in store 20 years from now and I have a feeling Photoshop is a program here to stay and will still be working side by side then. So hats off to the developers and Happy Birthday!

So now that Peace and Love are announcing lots of great bands for this year’s lineup I’m already getting very excited for the next festival. Last year I had a great time with some good friends listening to some great music and of course part of the fun was photographing some of the bands. Here are a few of the photos I was able to take of ”Bring me the horizon” while they had their adrenalin filled show. All that was needed for this shoot was a wide angel zoom lens and a few chugs of redbull and then  I was ready to rock. And an easy pick for rock photos for me is black and white. Something about rock just goes down nice in gray tones.

Can’t wait for this year’s party! / Ryan http://ryangarrison.com

Lights up, cables drawn, soft boxes set up, light metered but wait the light coming in from the window is awesome. Turn off the lights, take of the radio sync, just shoot with the light mother nature has provided. This is a situation I can often find myself in and I love it. In the last entry I wrote about using lights when the sun is not cooperating and that can come in very handy. Going out on a shoot one must be prepared as best you can but you have to also be prepared not to use all the equipment. This can be very hard for some photographers. Of course it’s understandable when you spend a shit load of money on this equipment of course you want to use it. But I believe in many situations we can get a much better photo if we just work the available light. And this is why I say to those photographing for the fun of it, not to rush in to buying a bunch of equipment when you can do so much with so little.

Model: Katharine
Makeup and hair: Marika Särnfält
Brazier by Chantelle that can be purchased at ”My Lady” located in leksand

/ Ryan http://ryangarrison.com