Portrait of Tibetan nomad in front of his winterhome. He is weaving cloth for his new tent made out of Yak wool.
So you are thinking of buying new equipment? On the top of your list is one of those zoom lenses. They are big and they look cool. You look like a pro with one of those mounted on your camera. But here is the secret – any idiot can zoom in. Most of us forget to zoom out.
Expedition Amundsen 2012. © Kai-Otto Melau
Shooting at night is difficult. But the results can be amazing.
The picture was shot during the Expedition Amundsen 2012. A race following the tracks of the famous norwegian explorer over the Hardangervidda mountainplateu.
Shooting water drops is fun and not that hard at all. All you need is a speedlight, a background, water and a lot of patience. Continue reading
You often hear the phrase “fill the frame” when it comes to photography. Especially if you are a new photographer or in school and so on. What it basically means is that you should get close to whatever you are shooting and leave no part of the frame open.
In general “fill the frame” is a good rule, but every now and then I like to break it. In fact I tend to go for wide open spaces in my pictures. Why? Continue reading
This statement was made by the famous war photographer Robert Capa. He made a career photographing war and terror in the 1930`s and 1940`s, before he stepped on a landmine when covering the war in Indochina in 1954.
D day, june 6th 1944. Omaha Beach, Normandy. © Robert Capa, Magnum.
Robert Capa`s trick was that he was close to the action. You could say he was a part of the action since he would travel and live with the soldiers he was portraying. He did the same things as they did, without the guns. He was “one of them”.
So how could you get close to the action and make better pictures without being killed by a landmine?
Do you remember the first time you got a picture on print in a magazine? I do!
It was back in 2003 (or 2004), dont really remember, but a friend called me up and said he was doing an interview with David Eugene Edwards for a magazine called SortHvit.
At the time David was the leadsinger of one of my favourite bands – 16 Horsepower – but the interview was gonna be about his sideproject – Wovenhand.
A spectacular race, considered by many to be the toughest Ironman-distance triathlon in the world.
All pictures are from 2009-2011 by photographer Kai-Otto Melau. Text by Norseman founder, Paal Hårek Stranheim and 3 time winner, Susanne Buckenlei.
December 2009.
It hasn’t rained a drop in the Pokot region of Northwestern Kenya since 2007. The people are starving due to lack of food and water. Diseases are spreading and people are starting to die.
Hi there and welcome to my brand new blog. On this site I will try to post updates on my work as well as different articles on how I work.
Hope you will enjoy!