You should never be afraid to learn something new!

As a photographer... well, it really applies all-round, you should never think you are better than you can improve ???? That's why I welcome all the help I can get, for new input, ideas, technical tricks, etc. means that I constantly get more and more opportunities to improve myself as a photographer.

My sweet friend Jack Hoier, is a great help to teach me new tricks in Photoshop (or improve my old ones) ???? I really appreciate this and he is really a source of inspiration, of mine. I've caught myself thinking "wow that's cool" when I integrate these tricks into a daily retouching routine.

I pulled a photographer friend into the studio, twisted his arm around him (read: maybe a bit exaggerated) and got him to teach me a bit about how HE sets light - I can use this input to vary my lighting settings and thereby also the mood in the result etc. but there is still a LONG way to go…. now I have to practice practice practice and have it integrated into my "natural rhythm" so that I don't fall back into old habits - because you have to renew yourself! I have learned that ????

The beautiful one Linea Kalnæs Kornby (her from my previous posting about magazine publication of my photos) was the patient model, Stephanie Albeck controlled the brushes and Martin Lindeblad Jorgensen was the lighting meister on the shoot where I shot these shots.

Of course, I don't want to BORING you with the factual things about the light, but here I want to show a few of the results that came out of it ????

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