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A collection of some of this year’s photo assignments all squeezed into a short portfolio magazine. I hope you will enjoy this issue of Play Blasting Magazine. Welcome!
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TEAM WEST REACHES TOP LEVELS
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KYOKUSHIN MEETS BARCELONA
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Play Blasting Magazine Issue: 2013 #1 Text: Joakim Jalin. Photos: Joakim Jalin (fsf). Behind the scenes photos: (s.12) Hugo Jalin. Translation: Caroline Wingolf. Produced by Jalin Film AB for Jalin Förlag and Joakim Jalin photography 2013. Contact: email: joakim@jalinfilm.com + 46 707 21 54 51 Homepage www.joakimjalin.com Facebook www.facebook.com/JoakimJalinPhotography
BARBADOS HITS THE WEB
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On Location with strobes
TEAM WEST TRIAL REACHES
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e’ve made our way to Team West’s training facility nestled in the Surte forest. We are here to shoot new promotional pictures. The members of the Trial team are only 15, 16 and 18 years old. But they have already made their mark in Trial history, having won races all over Europe. Eddie won the Swedish Championships for the second year in a row by overcoming the “impossible
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Eddie wins the Swedish Championships for the second year in a row by overcoming the “impossible obstacle.”
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obstacle” - a smooth, vertical wall several yards high. “This is the right age for it” says Micael Johansson, Tobias’ father and coach. “In a few years, they’ll be too old.” The boys ride up and down anything even remotely drivable. My assistant Hugo and I stand and stare, fascinated by the acrobatics unfolding before us. We look at each other and quickly unpack the equipment. We don’t want to miss a second of this. v
Portable studio strobes are mounted in the trees. I wait with my camera on the precipice and hear the motorcycles revving on the ground below. Looking over the side of the cliff I think, “No one can ever possibly make it up here. Not even on a motorcycle”. But in the same second Eddie soars past me up the steep slope. “Did you get the shot?” he calls.
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hen I come out from the entrance of the hotel, I discover to my surprise that there is ice on the windshield of our equipment van. Well, maybe it shouldn’t be that surprising since it’s minus 4°C.
I’m high up in the Spanish mountains on a photo and film assignment for a large Swedish car brand. The idea is to move towards the coast and Barcelona, making stops at various locations on the way. It’s not unusual to meet obstacles on a trip like this. But ice? In Spain? I quickly discover that the rental car does not have an ice scraper. What Spanish car would? Our interpreter and location scout rolls into the parking lot. He has a novel proposal. “I’ll get a mug of water and throw it on the windshield so it’ll melt!” he says. “Hmm,” I say, “Really?” We Northerners know a thing or two about ice and car windshields… My colleague sacrifices his plastic, credit card-sized medical insurance card and succeeds with great difficulty to make a hole in the ice so we can get going. After a few days, we finally sight Barcelona where a warmer climate awaits us. v
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Photo Composite
Photo Composite Model: Minna Georgii Kungälv Kyokushin Karate Portable studio shoot in Sweden. Background: Barcelona, Spain
Finding backgrounds with the right feel for a portrait is a big part of the work. When Kyokushin Karate needed new images, backgrounds came from far away. Play Blasting Magazine #1 2013 - All content Š Joakim Jalin - Jalin Film AB
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Photoshop Retoush & Composite
合気道 AIKIDO is a Japanese martial art and is often translated as “the Way of unifying with life energy” or as “the Way of harmonious spirit.”
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Ulf Evenas - Aikido Master, travels 90 days a year.
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highly sought after master, Ulf Evenås travels around the world several times a year. Commuting between Sweden, Russia and Japan is as natural to him as getting to work is for the rest of us. His constant companion on trips is a staff. A Jo, to be specific. The Jo is one of the few props used in Aikido. “This particular Jo” says Evenås “is a gift
from my teacher Morihiro Saito before he passed away in 2002.” Saito started training for the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, in 1946. He lived for 23 years at Ueshiba’s side and took part in the daily training. Saito made it his life’s work to preserve and teach the knowledge and the spirit he learned from the founder. A task which Ulf Evenås has now taken over. v
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Portable Studio Shoot
From left: Håkan, PP, Björn, Lager and Viktor
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etting a busy performer to come to a studio for a few hours for a shooting session is often impossible. So what’s it like trying to get a whole band to come to the studio at the same time? With a new website in the make, photos were a must. Lots of photos. Different
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clothes and different environments? Nothing out of the ordinary. Short of time? – Not unordinary either. Getting everyone together for a shoot? – Extraordinary. The tour bus called The Big Yellow, backs up towards the entrance to Tanumstrand. There are still 6-7 hours left before the band goes on
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FIVE FACTS Barbados has participated in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest four times. Has released 12 albums and 36 singles. Travel 80,000 kilometers a year in a yellow bus. Bassist ”PP” has worked on more than 250 albums. ”Crazy” Lager has won most of the band’s annual beard contests.
Peter “PP” Samuelsson - Bass
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Photo Composite stage. They have to unpack everything, rig lights and soundcheck before the restaurant opens. After that there are a few hours of waiting around before it’s show time.
”Photo and music assignments are pretty much the same thing, I think. Riding busses and carrying bags.”
Björn Lagerström - Lead Singer
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“Here’s the key,” says PP, the bassist, “I borrowed a large conference room.” We feel like we are a band too, as we cram in our photo studio equipment into the conference room. Photo and music assignments are pretty much the same thing, I think. Riding busses and carrying bags. We shoot everything against infinite white and composite the backgrounds afterwards. It’s evident that these guys have routine after more than 20 years in the limelight. One and a half hours later we are done and pack our stuff. But for Barbados, the evening has yet to begin. v
Mathias Lager - Guitar
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Photography Retoush & Composite
The first Mustang model was presented at the New York World’s Fair in 1964.
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here it is!� I shout. I recognize it instantly when I see the car among the other beauties gathered at the improvised lineup site. A hundred cars cram into the old gravel pit and music from three different decades mix together in the warm evening air. I had an exact toy replica of this particular model when I was a
child. The toy car broke, but this one is still gleaming. Many enthusiasts spend thousands of hours to keep rust and aging away. Honorable work. I myself prefer different methods to fend off aging. Now I have this green car in my collection again. But this time in the form of an image. v
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ALFA ROMEO
BRAVING THE STORM
Alfa Romeo GT. A ‘60’s classic with a twist from design house Bertone.
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