Here’s a handful of photos taken from various assignments as of late.

A small store specializing in car racing books and miniature car models had a small Ferrari gathering at their store. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)
Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/9 1/200sec, ISO160.

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Nicolas is a huge basketball prospect in Denmark. At the age of 17 he has been around the National team development system. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)
Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/10 1/250sec, ISO100.

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Danish Band Big Fat Snake closed the one day music festival - Rockfesten. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)
Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 120mm, f/2.8 1/400sec, ISO640.

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‘Greve’s’ Women’s Marching band performs at the annual city festival. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)
Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 200mm, f/2.8 1/640sec, ISO200.

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A ferris wheel at the annual city festival. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)
Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 200mm, f/25 1/320sec, ISO100.

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Students celebrating their final day in school with the traditional water and shaving foam fight. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)
Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 98mm, f/2.8 1/1000sec, ISO100.

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Death in the family has kept my mind on anything else but this blog. Now that everything is back to normal (as normal as it can get) I figured it was time to give a little update on what I’ve been doing..

A couple of concerts, a couple of soccer games, some handball, a demonstration and other stuff is among what I’ve been pointing my camera at.

I made a small gallery with captions in it with some of the most recent stuff I’ve been doing.

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Thursday I covered a rap concert with the rap group Suspekt. It was really cool and the crowd was really into it.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 200mm, f/2.8 1/160sec, ISO1250. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm, f/2.8 1/100sec, ISO1250. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 155mm, f/2.8 1/160sec, ISO1250. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 170mm, f/2.8 1/200sec, ISO1250. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/4 1/125sec, ISO1250. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/4 1/125sec, ISO1250. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Usually the weekends are pretty easy. A soccer game or two to cover a day. Anyway this Saturday was crazy as hell and is like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. The main reason for this madness is the paper has a soccer section in the paper because the season has just started. That meant I had to cover just about every team in the city! And not every team was playing at home. to make things nuts, I had an unrelated assignment during the mess and late at night. Here’s my Saturday as it went.12:09 PM - Avarta soccer club, opened a girls team for the first time in the club’s history.Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 200mm, f/2.8, 1/2500sec, ISO100 (Photo: Brian Poulsen)1:50 PM - Game action + picture of head coach of the soccer team B77.Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM + 1.4x TC @ 420mm, f/4, 1/1600sec, ISO100 (Photo: Brian Poulsen)2:27 PM - Local soccer star Hjalte Bo Norregaard who’s playing for the national championship team (far left) visits a reopening of a youth club that just restored their buildings.Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/7.1, 1/800sec, ISO100 (Photo: Brian Poulsen)2:38 PM - A small horse riding competition which was part of the reopening of the youth club.Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/4, 1/2500sec, ISO100 (Photo: Brian Poulsen)2:51 PM - Soccer action + picture of head coach of Team VEST.Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM + 1.4x TC @ 420mm, f/4, 1/1600sec, ISO100 (Photo: Brian Poulsen)4:08 - Soccer action + picture of Club President from the Avarta soccer club.Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM + 1.4x TC @ 420mm, f/4, 1/1600sec, ISO100 (Photo: Brian Poulsen)4:54 - Soccer action + photo of the head coach of the soccer club Orient.Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM + 1.4x TC @ 420mm, f/4, 1/1600sec, ISO100 (Photo: Brian Poulsen)5:40 PM - Got home and edited photos for a couple of hours, having shot 800+ photos during the day.9:54 PM - A Small concert by ‘KNA connected’ at the youth club who held a party at night.Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 40mm, f/4, 1/160sec, ISO1000 (Photo: Brian Poulsen)10:30 - Home around 10:30 PM, Edited photos from the concert and sent everything in to the paper. Was done around midnight.

Assignment: Shoot pictures of Rodovre Concert Band’s Fall concert

So I was assigned to shoot pictures of a Symphony Orchestra playing. There were plenty of opportunities and I was pretty much given all the time in the world to get the job done.

Going in close with my 70-200mm is the obvious. It’ll show you somebody playing an instrument and it’ll be obvious what’s going on. There are so many musicians, it’s hard to single one out or get a clean shot.

There’s actually a bit of a story in this photo. The guy playing an “Obo” is only 17 and dropped out of school to study music at the Academy of Music which is not easy to get in to.

Anyway, creating a pattern would be an idea. but it’ll still turn out a mess because they sit in a half-circle thing and the pattern is not consistent enough to look good.

So I decided to step back.. WAY back. There were almost a complete row of empty seats all the way in the back of the room and decided to shoot some wide angle stuff instead.

There are a couple of reasons why I did this. One of them is that a Symphony Orchestra is big. It consists of quite a few musicians and I wanted to show the magnitude of the band instead of just singling a few out.