This portrait of Isabelle, was shot on the first model shoot in my studio with my newest camera at the time (April 2025), the Hasselblad X2D 100C. I must say I am very happy with taking the leap from Leica M to Hasselblad for studio work. The skin tones are amazing, and the resolution, both in terms of the numbers of pixels in the files, but also the optical resolution of the lenses, just blows my mind.

This is one of my very favourite portraits of a stranger that I’ve shot so far. I shot it on one of my “Portrait Days” that I arranged in Oslo. That’s a thing I’d like to do more of. Anyway, this musician dropped by with his little guitar. I placed him in my favourite chair in the pub I had borrowed for the day. There is a big window to the right giving the soft light. In addition, I was trying out a couple of Leica lenses from the Leica store in Oslo. One of them was a silver 50mm f/1,4 Summilux and when I saw this photo I fell deelpy in love with it. Of course I ended up buying it.