PAVEL YTHJALL PHOTOGRAPHY

Portfolio Shoot with Pavel Ythjall – Staff Photographer for M&F, M&F HERS and FLEX

Shoot Day
A 10 hour day (including make up and wrap) and we normally end up with 100 great shots. All in all we probably take 400-600 shots and I then select the 100 best ones on set together with YOU. Everything we shoot is immediately available on a computer screen, the image goes from the camera to the computer. See the behind the scene film with famed fitness models Pauline Nordin & Sherlyn for a glimpse of how YOUR portfolio shoot will be.

Location
I like to use R1 Centre in El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA. There we can get training shots and cover attempts against a white background. It is the same gym I use when I shoot for FLEX magazine and the famed “The Girls Are Back” series or for M&F HERS and MUSCLE & FITNESS doing other features. Another studio I use is Notion Studios downtown Los Angeles, this one is more suited for glamour stuff as it has 10 to 15 movable sets, beds etc.

The Crew
The crew is the same crew I use when I shoot for Muscle & Fitness HERS, Muscle & Fitness, FLEX.

Wardrobe
I have a selection you are free to choose from. Please visit the wardrobe database by clicking here.

The Cost
The cost is 3600 – 4000 $ depending on location (R1 Centre or Notion Studios) and includes everything from planning to YOU receiving a binder with YOUR shots, in short it includes: my fee, 2 assistants to me, make up & hair artist, permits, insurance, food, clothing, equipment for 100.000 dollars etc. There is no difference between this shot and a regular editorial shoot for one off the major mags. This is the real thing, YOU will get the star treatment YOU deserve and we will all devote this day to YOU and getting YOU the best possible shots of the best possible YOU!

Your responsibility
Is to come to the shoot in great condition, we will take care off the rest
If you are not a local L.A resident travel & hotel is not included but I and my staff will help you find affordable hotels in Venice Beach (the Mecca) and we arrange for transport in a Range Rover to and from the shoot.

Book the Shoot
Let me know if you have any more questions, email or feel free to call me at my office: 310 430 6697.

Binder
After the shoot you will get a binder with thumbnail prints of the best shots and letter size prints off the “10 best shots”. You will also get all the best shots (approximately 100) as JPG’s in different sizes for email, web, Facebook, MySpace etc. No more than one week after the shoot you will have this sent to you via Fed Ex.

I can not emphasize this enough – GREAT IMAGES makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE in the world
This is how YOU present yourself to the world … wouldn’t you wanna be at your best shot by the best ?!

Payment Terms & Payment Options
We accept payment in cash, credit card (Pay Pal invoice) or money order. We require 75% no later than 10 days before the shooting date. The remaning 25% is due, at the latest, on the morning off the shoot.

Upon booking you will get a signed agreement outlining the shoot, delivery dates, copyright and anything else we have agreed upon on, it’s all standard practice and we do insist on written agreements for everyone’s peace off mind so both parties know what is expected off each other. The agreement will be signed by us as a company, Conforce, Inc. and you.

Succes Stories Portfolio shoots – Heidi Vonka Koi
Heidi booked a shoot with me and her career took off! BODY magazine (biggest magazine in the Nordic countries) will feature Heidi on the cover and a huge feature inside the magazine. BODY are using the shots I took. See examples below.
* Heidi used the shots to build a professional website: heidivonkakoi.com
* Heidi landed a sponsorship deal with apparel company Better Bodies right after they saw the shots with Heidi from the shoot, see Heidi’s Better Bodies profile here: Heidi
* Heidi’s cover and feature in BODY magazine (cover below, feature coming).

Succes Stories Portfolio shoots – Sherlyn Roy
I recently shot Sherlyn Roy and Pauline Nordin together. Sherlyn is a petite and intense young woman with great energy and a will to create great images. I recommended her to my chief editor friends, showed them some pics from our shoot and she was almost immediately flown to Canada to shoot with Paul Buceta for REPS! & Oxygen magazine.

Succes Stories Portfolio shoots – Paola Almerico
Another example is Paola Almerico. She needed a portfolio to show the art directors at the major mags.
I shot her during a 10 hour day here in California. 3 locations. On the beach, in the gym and cover attempts against white bg. Paola can now be seen in FLEX Body Shop, Oxygen features etc

Succes Stories Portfolio shoots – Kim
Kim shot with me and got so happy she decided to enter in FLEX magazine’s 2010 bikini contest!

Succes Stories Portfolio shoots – Frank Galasso
Hair stylist Frank Galasso, not only a hair stylist to the stars and Kim Kardashian, but a bodubuilder!
Read more here: http://blog.ythjall.com/2010/06/19/kim-kardashians-hair-stylist-frank-galasso/