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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What an interesting week it has been. Two car crashes, snow and the rehearsals for a hip hop theatrical play. That’s just some of the stuff I’ve been covering this past week.

I actually started out covering a car crash on the very first day I worked for the paper. Since then I can only recall arriving at a crash scene maybe twice where the cars and stuff was still there. This past week I was called out to two major crashes.

Friday (last week) some guy had to dodge an old woman crossing the street with her dog to avoid hitting her. He ended up hitting a light post and running over three small trees before coming to a hold when hitting a fourth tree.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm, f/2.8 1/400sec, ISO250. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

A front view of the car shows the damage.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/4 1/100sec, ISO250. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Monday as I arrived at the paper I got a phone call a colleague who had seen fire trucks and ambulances fly down the street past our office. The police scanner didn’t really give anything so I just drove in the direction I was told the fire trucks was going. I had a pretty good idea where it could be and I was right.

I never heard what happened but from what I saw at the scene it looked like somebody ran a red light broadsiding a car, plowing it into a traffic signal post.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 23mm, f/4 1/800sec, ISO200. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

I woke up Wednesday morning around 6.45am, having an assignment at 7.45am. I looked out the window and saw white trees and snow covering the grass and parking lot. My boss has been bugging me for ‘winter’ shots almost for as long as I can remember. Last year’s winter was basically only a couple of days. It’s hard to get good winter (read: pictures with snow or ice) shots when it’s over cast. So I was waiting for a sunny day with snow. You can’t exactly buy that on Ebay so when I saw that the sun was out and everything was basically what I was waiting for, it was all about getting out of the door as fast as possible before the snow melted away. On the way to the morning assignment the snow began falling from the trees as it was melting, so no time to chat at the first assignment. It was just getting it done and on my way again. I got what I wanted.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm, f/2.8 1/1250sec, ISO100. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm, f/2.8 1/1600sec, ISO100. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Thursday I was assigned to cover the rehearsals to a hip hop theatrical play that a local boy is in. It was pretty cool. I enjoy watching those guys dance!

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/4 1/320sec, ISO1250, flash fired. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 23mm, f/4 1/320sec, ISO1250, flash fired. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

This is the local kid. I figured it would be a good idea to shoot a solo shot of him.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 28mm, f/4 1/320sec, ISO1250, flash fired. (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.

I went to shoot a ballet rehearsal earlier today. It was for a different newspaper than I shoot for regularly.It’s fun to watch how the choreography of the ballet is basically made on the fly to fit the music. Having seen the rehearsal makes me kinda sad that I don’t get to shoot the real show with better light and the real costumes.

Today I shot a dance show. It was the result of a week long workshop for potential dancers.

There really isn’t a whole lot to say about it, other than the light was… I wont say horrible, because it was actually pretty cool. I did have to pull out the good ole’ ISO 1250 on my camera to get 1/320 sec at f/2.8.

In lighting like this with a completely dark background and light coming from above, spot measuring might be the way to go, but I’m using the LCD on the back of my camera, using “highlight alert” to see when my photos are no longer overexposed.

In other words, I dial up the speed so the photo is not overexposed at all. And from there I just go one stop down in shutter speed, take a photo, check the LCD and repeat this until whites start flashing in the LCD. Depending on how much it is overexposed, I’ll go a stop faster and use that speed.

It’s easier to recover details in something slightly underexposed, than it is with something blown out due to overexposure.