Göteborg rockar fett

Yes, Gothenburg ROCKS!  This week I had the chance, for the first time, to visit Europe and namely - Sweden.  Scandinavian Photo, a super cool camera store, brought me out to Gothenburg to speak for 2 days of their workshop.  Beautiful city, friendly people, and talented photographers.  A Nikon rep was there on day one to lend me any lens in the Nikon’s arsenal, a 200 f2, 200-400, sb800’s, and of-course D3’s ….. what a toybox of gear we had..  even top of the line lighting from Profoto which we used both days to over power the sun.   Day 2 was special for me because I had the chance to remember some of my roots and shoot on medium format cameras.  Martin, a rep for PhaseOne let me shoot on the first ever PhaseOne Camera in the world. If you’ve never shot medium format cameras before you are in for a treat.    The files are so sharp and so large (39mp!) that I could count every eyelash and goosebump on the models. (I’ll post more about that on the dwf soon) .  Along with the PhaseOne camera, Martin gave me a chance to go down memory lane with a Hasselblad 501cm sporting a p45 back (Gothenburg is home to Hasselblad), I felt like a kid again.   Thanks to everyone who attended, everyone at Scandinavian Photo, and special thanks to Jenny Blad who was my guide while I was there and who also arranged the entire wonderful experience, (I’ll post her session with her cool husband, Robert, soon) .  I’m starting to miss Sweden already.  The following are some of my favorites from the workshop.