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Model testing male models

Bjørn Christiansen — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:56:18 +0000

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

Today I am heading out to Yellow Cock Studio to do three model testings for Modelbureauet Modelbooking. All tests are with male models and done in studio.

The picture above is from last time I did testing in Denmark, at Skyderiet and is of Malene Micha doing styling on the model Jennifer Hansen, from Modelbureauet Modelbooking.

Photographing for Modelbureauet Modelbooking

Bjørn Christiansen — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:41:24 +0000

Behind Scenes with Stephanie Bäckström, make-up, hair and styling Maria Schläger Jensen.

Behind the Scenes with Jennifer Hansen at Skyderiet.dk. MUA is Malene Micha Juhl

In recent days I have photographed models from Modelbureauet Modelbooking. Tuesday I photographed Rasmus Michaelsen with clothes from Ei´kon. We used the store as a base and walked around downtown and found some locations that matched the clothes we used. Wednesday I shot four photo shoots, tree of them were polaroidshots and one larger testing with Jennifer Hansen in studio. Skyderiet which were the location of the studio shoot, was owned by Christina Lykke, a renowned photographer in Denmark. Today I have been in Aros, an art museum, to photograph Stephanie Bäckström with Maria Schläger Jensen as make-up artist and stylist.
Next week I am back doing school photography. I believe my boss is sending me on a road trip up north again, this time to Bodø, Narvik, Harstad, but I am not quite sure yet.

Here are some pictures and a video I shot of Stephanie for a half ago:

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photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stephanie Bäckström (Model Booking)

Behind the scenes – Miss Earth Norwegian Contestant

Bjørn Christiansen — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:12:51 +0000

Behind the Scenes from the shoot with Marion Dyrvik Homlong, Miss Earth 2011

Yesterday I had the last shoot with Marion Dyrvik Homlong for her portfolio for Miss Earth 2011. The shoot was down town Trondheim right next to Vår Frues Kirke, the same location I did a shoot with Kristin Folstad a few weeks ago. My assistant on this recording was Karoline Holand Fosby, who also did the make-up and her hair.
Despite the sun, the cold autumn weather didn’t give us any warmth. The model was a bit frozen, the assistant was dreaming of a cup of freshly brewed coffee ground on exotic beans from Brazil and I struggled even with little sleep deprivation and cold fingers, but we still managed to accomplished a shooter without any major challenges. As you can see from the picture we keep on in open shade where I partly have the sun directly in the lens. The shutter was on average at 1/125s and aperture of f/4-5.6. ISO was set to 200 and we had plenty of natural light.

Filming Liv-Miriam Nordtømme

Bjørn Christiansen — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:20:14 +0000

Liv-Miriam Nordtømme and Bjørn Christiansen, photo: Vegard T. Blakstad

After work today I drove with my boss to Kristiansten Festning and met Liv-Miriam Nordtømme, the author of fysionett.blogg.no. Here we did a photo shoot and a recording of some video clips Liv-Miriam is going to use on her blog demonstrating simple and easy home exercises. Vegard Blakstad, my boss, and the photographer behind this image served as assistant during the shot handing me the lenses and made sure that the light was perfectly reflected on the face of Liv-Miriam. Photos and film from the recording comes during the week.
As you can see in the image of Liv-Miriam and me, so I use my tripod shoulder rig in order to stabilize the images as much as possible. It’s better than to shoot only handheld. Canon 5D MkII, I borrowed from my tenant, Charlotte Støle, who is also a photographer.

Behind the Scenes with Ane Aspén

Bjørn Christiansen — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:36:24 +0000

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This past two and a half months I’ve been filming quite a few videos with a Nikon D7000 I got to borrow from Nikon Norge. This piece is one of the last films I shot before I returned it back to Camera & Videoteknikk AS and is a behind the scenes-thing for Ane Aspen’s last shoot at Norsk Fotofagskole. The photos she shot of Hedvig Kristine Sundland fromTrend Models are going on display at Fokus, our exhibition today.
Makeup artist is Anniken Tiset, designer of the jacket is Marianne Høst, second assistant is Leiv Aspén from Buranhus.

You can see the photos Ane shot of Hedvig at our exhibition Fokus at Fotofagskolen this weekend. Opening is at 20:00 tonight.

Fokus - Avgangsutstilling på Norsk Fotofagskole 2011

Fashion Catalogue – Last assignment

Bjørn Christiansen — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:55:06 +0000

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Last assignment

This is my last assignment at Norsk Fotofagskole. The assignment was shooting a fashion catalogue, 10 outfits, all colour, 24 pages including front and back. We were also supposed to make a little art piece using video presenting the clothes.

Today I delivered my final PDF to CopyCat in Trondheim, printing two copies of my magazine. Last night I was finished clipping and editing my little art piece and it came out quite okay.

Behind the Scenes

Storyboards, moodboards and a plan of attack were worked and evaluated in groups with our teacher Geir Terje Nergaard. Some time before Easter I made contact with Maria Nordstrøm Solberg from Modelbureauet Modelbooking, a model booking agency in Århus. She helped me find some models that needed some photos for their portfolio and could do the shoots for free. Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen, a singer in Leaving a Small Town and Stephanie Bäckström fit the catalogue profile I had planned.

Friday before Easter I left Trondheim heading towards Århus, Saturday Mimoza Rrusta, my stylist at the shoot, and I went out looking for clothes and shoes that matched the profile. Mainly looking at stores at Bruuns Galleri in Århus having a tight budget we stuck to Vero Moda, H&M, Bestseller, MbyM and BikBok. As usual Bianco Footwear (Århus) were as kind as to lend me two pair of shoes. Sunday we, Mimoza and I, took the bus to Moesgård Beach scouting the location planning where to shoot and film. Monday we went for a walk to Århus Botaniske Have, not far from where I stayed. The location were not as I had thought it would be, so after the shoot Tuesday, we visited Århus University which worked perfectly as a backdrop for my second shoot.
Tuesday Stinne showed up at around 9 o’clock in the morning ready for make-up and hair. We started shooting at the beach around one and were done around four. The second day we started hair and make-up around noon and were done shooting at the university around six pm. Friday I meet my second model Stephanie in the town centre of Århus, taking the bus to Bellevue Beach around two pm. Mimoza tagged along fixing hair and make-up. This day we concentrated mainly of shooting film for the art piece. That evening I had around 700 images to pick down to 30 for post processing.
Sunday afternoon I arrived back home in Trondheim starting post processing my photos, final touch and stitched together in a PDF were done last night before starting editing the art piece.

Nikon Norge – Nikon D7000

Before I left for Denmark I sent Nikon Norge an email asking them if I could borrow a DSLR with filming capability for testing and for my little art piece. They were as kind as to lend me a Nikon D7000 and a Nikon Nikkor 17-55 f/f2.8 through Camera & Videoteknikk AS. Since I have a Nikon D700 as a main camera and have shot with Nikon the last three years D7000 was fairly easy to operate. Just a little flick of a switch and start the live-view-mode and press the record button. Without a Hoodman Loupe I had some problems focusing, but mounting the camera to a tripod using it as a shoulder-rig I got a bit more stability event though it’s not perfect. I had also some problems with skin-tone in my film-clips, but I figured it was just my novice-experience that was the reason.

Tomorrow at 9 am. we are having the last evaluation before final exam. Four weeks, maybe 80 – 100 photos, 8 – 10 different styles, including fashion, architecture, commercial and portrait.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stephanie Bäckström (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

Posing as a centerfold-girl in Adresseavisen

Bjørn Christiansen — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:07:53 +0000

Centerfold-girl Bjørn Christiansen in Adresseavisen, photo: Vegard Eggen (Adressa)

On Wednesdays group photography at Norsk Fotofagskole I got snap-shot by Vegard Eggen, a photographer from Adresseavisen, during the building of the image with Rita Ottervik, Mayor of Trondheim. The photo was published in todays newspaper in the cultural section. After skimming through the story, I found out that there were a lot of more or less important politicians from the cultural department of Norway.

Preview of my videoproject from Trondheim Torg

Bjørn Christiansen — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:10:08 +0000

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Last Monday in the lunch hour my model Maria Ishoel Frelsøy, assistant and make-up artist Line Sofie Steinfinsbø had a little video shoot at the rooftop of Trondheim Torg for my fashion project. The preview and the rest of the clip is filmed with Canon 5D Mark II and a 50mm f/1.4. Soundtrack is Soleplassland by Tre Små Kinesere.

Today I received a Nikon D7000 that I got to borrow from Camera & Videoteknikk AS for product testing, mainly the movie capabilities of this DSLR.

Preparing for the last Sushi-shoot

Bjørn Christiansen — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:56:35 +0000

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sushi-stuff for the last Sushi-shoot

Today I’ve made a list of requisites that I needed for my last sushi-shoot at school tomorrow that will be my last this week considering sushi. I will be photographing two product shots of ingredients, one of the tools and some fill-pictures for my booklet.

chopsticks
bamboo-mat
seaweed
roe
ginger
cups for the roe
sake
cups for the sake

I got to borrow Martine Lein Skroves cups for sake, didn’t find any bamboo-mat, but bought three jars of different roe, some cups for the roe, a ginger-root, a bottle of sake, and some chopsticks. If everything goes as planned I will be done with the shoot tomorrow afternoon and done post-process by Wednesday and evaluation on Thursday. By the time I’m done, I probably have grown tired of sushi ;)

Sushi – Preparations for food photography

Bjørn Christiansen — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:25:06 +0000

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sushi-stuff from Kos Bar&Lounge

Today we had evaluation of our beverage-advertisement-shots and it went quite well. He pointed out that the picture I delivered had a stop-effect, but the relationship between the model and the bottle were a bit vague, something I knew form the moment I shot the picture. But overall I am satisfied.
After school I went to Kos Bar&Lounge to ask if they could lend me some plates, a bowl and some chopsticks for my next assignment, Sushi – Food Photography. I got three plates, three bowls and three pairs of chopsticks, to morrow I will buy some take-away-sushi from Rema 1000 and have a test shot before the real deal on Thursday when chefs comes from Prima AS comes to make sushi and other seafood for us to photograph. I have also been to Ikea with Sascha Njaa to get some backdrops and accessories to this photo shoot that I will test tomorrow. Even though I’m not that good at seeing the esthetics’s in product- and food-photography I am really looking forward to this shoot.