Stephanie and I have been planning this shoot for a while, but this weekend we finally got to this shoot, though it was a bit impulsive. Saturday evening I asked Stephanie if she was keen to do the gipsy / bohem-inspired fashion shoot in near future and she answered that Natalia, her older sister was doing a stylist assignment at school (Norsk Fotofagskole) with just the theme we had been planning for. Though the shoot had to be on Sunday because the assignment was due this week. Natalia was glad to hear that I could do the shoot for her.
The first location Natalia had planned was around the rural area of Moholt, but I didn’t feel that it add the right atmosphere for the shots I had in mind. Instead thought back to the first years when I first moved to town. I lived at Voll Studentby a student village, not far from the model and regularly went for walks in the area. and remebered one of the trails in the area with some vacancy, but was still open enough for the right mood I had pictured. They both agreed that we should try my location. After 45 minutes of shooting, the clouds drifting in and changed the light we worked with and we were kind of done with four costumes.
Below are some of my shots with a Minolta Dynax 7 (analogue camera) from 2004. At that time I mostly shot film and the cheapest way to get the shot digitalized was with a DIY contraption consisting of a black tube with home made film dias. The first photo is of Kjetil Høiby scanned with his film scanner, and the two following was shot with my DIY contraption.
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kjetil Høiby at Voll Studentby
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Voll Studentby
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, My Dog, a Cocker Spaniel
Yet another beautiful model called Elise I’ve shoot during the past weeks. This is more the private types of portraits I do. Using only existing lighting and only Elise’s apartment as a location I found the series turning out quite good. The model was relaxed and we had an informal atmosphere during the shoot that gave the natural feel of these portraits.
Using three types of lenses, the 35mm f/1.4G, 50mm f/1.4D and 70-200mm f/2.8 gave the shallow depth of field shooting at a wide aperture, but I think I need to change out the 50mm f/1.4D anytime soon. It tends to back focus a few millimeters and the sweet spot is way of. I don’t really know if it is because of my D800, the lens it self or if it has been dropped to many times during the five years I’ve owned it.
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Lian Restaurant - Wintertime
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Lian Restaurant - Wintertime
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Lian Restaurant - Wintertime
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Lian Restaurant - Wintertime
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Lian Restaurant - Wintertime
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Lian Restaurant - Wintertime
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Lian Restaurant - Wintertime
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Lian Restaurant - Wintertime
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Lian Restaurant - Wintertime
This is a practical example on how you can trick people into believing you are a sporty guy doing cross country skiing. My parents has a cabin in the mountains and yes I have done cross country skiing, slalom and snowboarding when I was younger, but the recent ten years I haven’t prioritized those activities to my parents disappointment. Anyway, these are some environmental shots I did while assisting photographer Lars-Erik Berg at a photo shoot for Jekta Storsenter and Centerteam Reklamebyrå and their easter magazine a month ago. The shot was mainly a fashion photos shoot with models in the surrounding areas of Lian Restaurant in Trondheim, but Lars-Erik also wanted some shots of the surroundings that might be used to set the mood for his series, but they were never used. Models used in the shots was Elise S and Henrik from Trend Models.
Lian Restaurant er blant Trondheims eldste og mest særegne restauranter, offisielt åpnet som restaurant i 1933. Før dette var Lian et av mange gårdsbruk i området. Den unike beliggenheten sørget for at gårdens kjøkken kunne tjene noen kroner på å selge kaffe og vafler turfolk. Lian ligger langs pilgrimsleden, så folk tok seg trolig en pust i bakken på gårdstunet for å se ned mot målet, Nidarosdomen.
Da Gråkallbanen byggde neste etappe av trikkeskinnen mot Gråkallen, kjøpe de gården og bygget på den karakteristiske funkis-rotunden. De ønsket en restaurant i enden av trikkesporet, slik at folk skulle benytte trikken og ta en tur i marka. Mange gjenskaper i dag nostalgien med å leie veterantrikk til sitt selskap.
Gråkalbanen bygde også badehus, grillplass og stupetårn ved Lianvannet. Her var det svømmestevner og skolesvømming. På vinteren ble det arrangert skøyteløp, bil-og motorsykkelløp og travløp. De sies at det første travløpet i Nord-Europa som involverte pengespill var på Lianvannet i 1928. Vest for restauranten lå det hoppbakke. Når eldre mennesker tar turen til Lian med sine familier får vi høre mange rørende historier om svømmeknappen eller hopplengden. Dette blir eventyr for barnebarn og oldebarn.
Da Ila skole ble okkupert under krigen ble undervisningen flyttet til Lian restaurant. Området ble også brukt av tyske soldater under krigen. Det ble bygget mange bunkerser på jordene på Lian. Disse står fremdeles inntakte.
Etter krigen fikk Lian en nedgangstid, men i 1953 kom reddningen. Anna og Ingolf Vanvik fikk beskjed av Gråkallbanens direktør Bøchmann; driv ordentlig i to år, så skal dere få kjøpe Lian! De starter en lang og møysomelig prosses med å bygge opp restauranten. Etterhvert ble datteren Helene involvert i driften. Sammen med mannen Jan Schjølberg forsatte de arbeidet etter Anna og Ingolf helt frem til 1996. Vårt hedersrom Schjølbergstua er vår måte å si takk til Vanvik/Schjølberg. Lian hadde trolig ikke overlevd som restaurant uten denne familien.
I perioden 1996-2005 er det flere eiere og drivere involvert i driften. Restauranten lyder navnet Lian Herregård i denne tiden. Ekteparet Elisabeth Skonseng og Inge Johnsen kjøpte Lian i 2005, og tok tilbake navnet Lian Restaurant. Sammen med sitt personell jobber de hardt med bedriftens filosofi om en ”varig sanseopplevelse for en samling med mennesker” og ”Kortreist mat i godt selskap”.
It might be a bit challenging to photograph out in the snow, but a quick and easy tip for doing it is to set the correct exposure at brightest of the snowy parts in your scene, and do a 1/3rd exposure compensation. This will in the shot blow out your brightest parts of the scene, but the advantage is that your darker parts in the shot get a brighter exposure. When you are converting your shots you still have a lot of details preserved in the light areas, and you the darker areas of your shot still has full details without so much noise. This tip can also be applied if you are shooting a wedding, expose the white wedding dress instead of the dark dress of the groom. If you do so, the white wedding dress in most cases are going to get fully blown out and the details will not be as easily saved.
This is the second and last part from my the series I shot with Rebecca Løckra earlier this year. Rebecca got represented as a model for Trend Models last year and has done some covers for Norwegian fashion magazines after winning a competition by Define Hair.
After working the whole weekend with event and portrait photography I am packing my camera equipment, setting my nose towards Copenhagen, Denmark to cover Copenhagen Fashion Week with the designer Lina-Therese Schiager Brækkan for Runway Passport, and to do some model tests of a few Danish models. Since I am traveling light I am still wondering what equipment I should bring and what to leave at home. Here is my temporary packing list, any feedback on what I should and should not bring?
Nikon D800
Nikon D700
Battery grips for both cameras
Universal Charger and batteries
24mm f/2.8
35mm f/1.4
50mm f/1.4
70-200mm f/2.8
SB-900, bracket and cord
Monopod
Zacuto View Finder 3,2″
GoPro Hero3 Silver Edition
Cleaning kit for lenses
32Gb CF-cards x4
Laptop
Memory card reader
500Gb external harddrives
Wacom Intuos4, drawing board
Mice
Business cards
At CFW I will mainly do shows (catwalk / runway) and backstage documentary, that is why I am bringing my prime lenses. The D800 has a slow FPS so this will remain the backup camera on when I shoot the shows, and be the main camera doing the documentary part. I really don’t need 36,6mpx on catwalk shots. The D700 has the advantage of having 11fps when boosting the camera with a BL4 battery and 12,1mpx photos is easing the computing power when going through a huge quantum of shots. I was thinking about bringing my followfocus kit (baseplate, 15mm rods, handle grip and follow focus) and Glidecam HD4000, but since I am just doing stills I can manage with just the Zacuto View Finder if I was to shoot a little video during the model testings. I’m a little bit of a fry head, I have managed to misplace my Eye-Fi card, but I will try to keep you posted on Instagram (bj0rn_net) with some cellphone shots.
Second part from my photo shoot with Eva-Marie Frisnes (Trend Models). I am still working with the direct flash styled photos. It is easy and concentrates more of what is in the photo, the subject, rather than setting a mood with a location.
The settings I usually use in these types of shots are a 50mm lens at a f-stop around 4, an ISO-speed at 100ISO and a shutter above 1/125. The most important part of setting the shutter speed is to block the ambient light leaving just the flash gun to freeze the photo. You can the built-in pop-up flash on your camera, or a speedlight. In my case I used a SB-900 mounted on a flash bracket adjusting it to be as close to the lens as possible. This gives you almost no shadow behind the model both in portrait and landscape mode. Using the pop-up flash the light source stands a bit off-set from the lens giving a slightly larger shadow. To get the most out of the flash I varied the speedlight to fire at 1/8 to 1/16 of full power, and also used the i-TTL-funciton. Shooting the documentary for Tempo and their release concert, I used just the pop-up flash on my camera to light the scenes. As with the shots of Eva-Marie, this gives the images a bit more raw feel than if I had lit every scene with a flash head or just used the ambient light.
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Tempo - Slippfest på Orklapøbben
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Tempo - Slippfest på Orklapøbben
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Tempo - Slippfest på Orklapøbben
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Tempo - Slippfest på Orklapøbben
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Tempo - Slippfest på Orklapøbben
Lately I’ve been working with a rather huge project, something that I am not that familiar with, producing a music video for the band Tempo and releasing their new single last friday, Deilig.
We had three days of filming, starting at the end of November using the local concert scene Blæst as location. The band had invited a hand full of extras who were to play in the “main scene” of the video which was a party scene where the band played among the audience. Ove Aunan helped out rigging light, Marthe Røkke Lund helped out as assistant producer / photographer and Hilde Sveli did hair and make-up for these scenes. The second day of filming we used the guitarists apartment shooting mood-shots of the main character Tonje Pettersen and the cover poster. Last and third day of filming was spent at Ladehammeren where we shot running scenes.
Working together with May Lill Morseth Løhre editing the music video we finally did the finishing touches the night before release.
Equipment I used shooting this video a Nikon D800, 35mm and 24mm and a 70-200mm, mountend on a rig from Gini Rigs (Extreme 17), which is an aluminum, light weight off-set rig for the “static shots” and close ups. I also used a a Glidecam HD4000 for the dynamic shots, running scenes and panning around the audience. Since this was the first time using this type of equipment on a professional job, I had to teach my self in a couple of weeks how to operate the different rigs and balancing the Gldiecam correctly. It has been a steep learning curve, but I am quite satisfied with the result.
Last Friday Tempo had invited a lot of friends to Orklapøbben for their release concert and the premiere of the music video (above), around 100 people showed up to the event. I helped the guys out shooting a little documentary following them through the evening until early morning.
Photographing moving objects can be a bit of a challenge. If you don’t trust your auto focus you’re in for a real treat. This photo was shot back in the autumn of 2009. I had recently started school when I planned this little photo shoot with my friend Rune Johansen and his bike, a Suzuki R600 (not that I really know what the difference between a R600 and an ie R1200 is), as an assignment. Having photographed people and portraits for a great deal of time I was happy to finally try something else. The task was simple, have a couple of different shots, one freezing time, one showing movement in the photo. It was really just a basic exercise practicing shutter speed control and panning. First we shot some photos with just the bike, as a commercial styled photo, then some with him and his bike riding into the sun down and finally I asked him to do some speed runs so I could have my shots for the assignment. Starting of at 60km/h I had problem finding focus both manually and automatically because of the sun hitting the lens. But on the third try with a machine-gun-high-speed-shutter-mode of 11 frames pr second I managed to get something decent for the freezing the frame-shot. Trying the blurry background we also had quite a few tries, but finally understood that he didn’t need to go that fast. He slowed down to around 20km/h crawling down the dock. Helping me out in this shot was the sun flares that in the beginning ruined my auto focus, strafing across from left to right making out the Suzuki logo. Bit of pure luck really. Being a bit aware if the police came visiting our shoot at the harbor, we packed up and went home.
Getting a blurry background with some hints of motions you need to use a normal or telephoto lens. You might achieve this effect with a wide angle, Some of the reasons is when you shoot with a telephoto lens the background gets truncated. Everything that moves in the same direction as your pan of the lens gets stuck in the frame. Lowering the shutter speed smudges what is not following your motion and blurs it out. This is shot on an aperture of f/22, ISO200 and a shutter speed of 1/50th of a second. The reason for such a small aperture is to get what I focus at in focus and sharp.
Yesterday I had a test shoot with Maren Elise Aasen (Trend Models / Team Models). Despite working with a minimum amount of equipment and doing the shoot rather impulsively it turned out quite okay. Helping me out with make-up was Ann Karin Williams Aastø from OurStyle.
The setup consisted of a Nikon D800, Nikon MB-D12, Nikon Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8G vrII and a Nikon SB-900 mounted on a bracket and with attached to a i-TTL flash cord. The lens in the picture is a 35mm f/1.4G which were to wide. I had set the SB-900 to fire of with a power output of 1/8th-1/16th and zoom at around 90-120mm. Since I have mounted the flash so close to the lens it gives you a smaller shadow behind the subject. I have been looking to buy a flash bracket from Custom Brackets which does exactly this without having the standard bracket twisting.
Lately I’ve been working on some projects, this one is for the designer Lina-Therese Schiager Brækkan (LT Design) who is currently studying at Fashion Design Akademiet in Copenhagen, Denmark. This is one of her trousers. Model on this shot was Charite Viken from DP Models and helping me out with hair and make-up was Ann Karin Williams Aastø (OurStyle).
Having little time to finish this shoot some quick plans were made to do it in Trikkestallen Skatepark. I brought my camera, a SB-900 and an silver umbrella and tried to make the best out of this shoot.
This shot is filmed at Trondheim Kickboxing Klubb’s (TKBK) gym and the two fighters are Rune Johansen and Andreas G. Johansen. It was a bit unfair to have them fight after four rounds of sparring before this footage.
Since I bought my D800 I’ve been testing more the abilities of filming with this camera. I am at the moment not a professional videographer and find the results quite satisfying to my simple use. Here is a quick DSLR-video test with a glidecam and the D800. I found the rig to be quite heavy using my 35mm f/1.4 lens, but with a smaller prime, such as the 24mm f/2.8 or 35mm f/2.0, took off quite some weight. This shot my configuration was a bit too bottom heavy as you can see the drag in the camera movement. I have to practice more flying a camera.
I am trying out the Nikon D800 + 35mm f/1.4G and an Eye-Fi Pro X2 on my road trip in Norway. This is the fourth and last part in my testing series.
I have been testing the Nikon D800 + Nikon Nikkor 35mm f/1.4G, and the Eye-Fi Pro X2. The idea behind the Eye-Fi was to get photos off the camera and on to any publishing services as quickly as possible. The Nikon D800 paired with the 35mm f/1.4 is one of the best combinations of camera equipment I’ve ever tried. The huge RAW-files providing a huge range of detail you get of the D800 is one topic that has been well written about. The wide angle 35mm is just right for my use, I can shoot both intimate portraits and get a wide enough angle for landscape photography. The wide aperture also provides me with a faster shutter in dim-light-situations and can’t use flash. The ISO-range on the D800 (ISO100 – ISO6400) also helps a lot as well.
The card I used for this test was an Eye-Fi Pro X2, the eight gigabyte version which I had bought for the older D700, which turned out to be unsupported even with a CF-adapter. My publishing device was a HTC Sensation (2011) running Android with the Eye-Fi app installed and the service provider for publishing my photos was the Instagram app.
I had a little discussion with one of my readers saying that this is cheating in Instagram. He meant that I couldn’t publish photos that wasn’t shot with a cellphone camera. It wasn’t the philosophy of instant photos. My opinion is that since I almost always have my camera with me and shoot what suits me, it don’t bother me if the technical quality is much better than the small lens-cellphone cameras. If it is shot with a DSLR or a cellphone camera, it is instant and therefor also not violating the philosophy. Really, I couldn’t bother less if it is cheating or not. I just like to photograph and share. If it is with my DSLR or my cellphone, it don’t make much difference if the photo is nice to look at.
I encountered some problems setting up the Eye-Fi card to connect to my phone. I believe it was both the Eye-Fi software and the newly discovered unsupport that was to blame. But after reading quite a lot of forums, following guides and resetting the card a few times. I got it to work both in both Direct Mode and Private Network mode. Since there is a lack of support of public HotSpots in the countryside in Norway, I didn’t get to test it. Since I had gotten it to work with both Direct Mode and Private Network-mode haven’t bothered testing it with AdHoc-mode.
As I experienced and after some days of testing, the Direct Mode was quite unstable and the card didn’t get to connect with my phone every time.
The Nikon D800 / D800E is not compatible with Eye-Fi X2 Cards.
Eye-Fi engineering has found and confirmed a compatibility issue with the Eye-Fi card that impacts the use of Direct Mode in the Nikon D800. We are currently investigating an issue with the D800′s SD slot that appears to contribute to a lack of steady signal while the Eye-Fi card is in Direct Mode which makes the Direct Mode feature incompatible with the camera. The Nikon D800/D800e passes all other wireless network tests and is compatible with wireless transfers via a wireless router.
Another reader suggested that I should test out setting my phone in HotSpot-mode and create a private network. This would allow my phone to stay connected to the Internet while I was uploading files from the card. This is one of the downsides if you set up the card for ad-hoc or Direct Mode access, most phones won’t connect to both WLAN and 3G simultaneously that means you need to disconnect the WLAN every time the files are done uploading from the card, to get to publish the files. The switching on and off of the WLAN drains the batteries a bit more than just leaving the phone in HotSpot-mode. The card had some problems connecting to the private network, but I didn’t encounter those as often as I did with the Direct Mode.
Transfer rates. The files as I have stated earlier are huge. RAW-files can vary from 50-80mb per file which is a lot of data to transfer just for one shot. The phone would also be filled up quite fast as well if you decide to upload RAW-files. To speed things up a bit I decided to have my camera saving two separate formats, one RAW to the CF-card and JPG Fine, and small resolution to the Eye-Fi (SD-Card). JPGs saved to the card would be around 5-10MB which is quite a bit step down from the RAW-files, but still has a satisfying quality for web-publishing and quick preview of the files on phones, tablets and even larger computer screens allowing you or the costumers you are shooting for to get a decent preview of what is happening in front of the camera.
Most problems were when I was uploading to Instagram, the phone sometimes would suddenly reboot, the conversion of the JPG-files was quite slow. So depending on the hardware you use and how many apps installed this would in a perfect world not be a big issue. I had also some problems connecting to the network because of low signal or no coverage where I was at the moment. It might be I have to change ISP (www.chess.no) to someone who has better coverage.
Conclusion
Despite some problems installing and setting up both the Eye-Fi-card and my phone, and discovering the issues concerning the Eye-Fi support for D800 in Direct Mode, I am quite satisfied. Selecting JPG and scaling down the picture size I could still upload decent quality photos to any web platform that I desired. The problems was mainly my Android phone shutting down and acting a bit unstable.
I also tested the Eye-Fi card shooting a documentary series for IKEA at their ten year anniversary in Trondheim, earlier this autumn where my setup was a Canon 1DmkIII with a 24-105mm f/4 and an Asus UX31e in Direct Mode. The laptop was set up with Adobe Lightroom 4 as a publishing platform in slideshow mode and the files delivered from the Eye-Fi card was automatically imported adding all new files to the slideshow projected on two big screens as they were shot. I had some issues with range even though the camera had a clear view to the laptop, I had to be at least 10 meters or closer to the laptop before it could start uploading. One solution to this problem might be bringing a portable router with 6dbi, or stronger, antennas upping the signal.
I believe the Eye-Fi cards with wireless tethering to smart phones and laptops are designed for an everyday use as well as for professionals. With the right settings on your camera you can have a quick preview of what you are shooting and show off your shots instantly to costumers or readers of blogs and other web publishing services. Though you might consider shooting the RAW-files to a separate card and do the post processing in the more traditional way transferring the RAW-files through a USB-card reader to the computer.
I am looking forward to test out the new Nikon UT-1 combined with the WT-5a unit. It is a larger device that does exactly the same as the Eye-Fi and some more things such as operating the camera through Camera Control 2 and having a faster transfer rate and might be more stable to use.
I am not stopping publishing photos to Instagram just because the test is over, but it might be that the frequency of new photos isn’t that high. If you want to follow me on Instagram my username is bj0rn_net :)
The road trip
After photographing the week in Raufoss in Oppland I drove back home to Trondheim yesterday passing two car accidents on the road, one in Drivdalen and one in Melhus, fresh in mind my close encounter with a potato field earlier that morning. Drive safe, stay safe! Have a nice weekend!
Here are all the shots from this week:
All photos are shot with a Nikon D800, Nikon 35mm f/1.4G with a Eye-Fi Pro X2 8Gb card, uploaded to my HTC Sensation running Android, Eye-Fi App and uploaded to Instagram
I am trying out the Nikon D800 + 35mm f/1.4G and an Eye-Fi Pro X2 on my road trip in Norway. This is the third part in my testing series.
After switching the Eye-Fi Pro X2 card to WLAN-mode connections have been more stable and not a really big issue even though I had some minor problems with the card not connecting to my Android Hotspot before I turned everything off and on again. Still this wireless transfer is draining my batteries quite because I don`t always remember to switch off the WLAN on the Eye-Fi card after transfer completion.
I would also recommend setting the quality to Fine and file-size to small to speed things up a bit if you are shooting just for a preview on a larger screen or “instantly” uploading to i.e. Instagram or Facebook.
Since I had a bit more to do yesterday I did`t really have the time to photograph for this project or write any PART III yesterday as planned, I am combining the shots from yesterday and to day into one post.
Waking up yesterday morning and today I experienced -3 and -6 degrees Celsius for the first time this autumn. It came as an shock and thinking about the job I am doing here standing out side photographing all day long, I decided to buy a new pair of wool soles, wool socks and a wool sweater in addition to my all ready wool underwear. No, I am not posting any today`s outfit on my blog!
Anyway, after work yesterday I went for a walk to check out the rest of the selections of restaurants in Raufoss, where I am currently staying, only to discover more Asian shops and massage parlors. Today I decided to follow a tip from one of the local inhabitants to check out the shopping mall in Gjøvik instead of eating at this a bit shady places. Also today I went for a little walk after work clearing my head. Climbing all the steps to the top of Lønneberget hoppsenters K90-hill “enjoying” the view from an acrophobian point of view. Ski-jumpers must have a nut loose, lack of IQ or just plane crazy.
Tomorrow I am driving home after the last project here in Toten, looking forward to sleeping in my own bed not being annoyed by next door neighbors snoring and making other strange noises.
I am trying out the Nikon D800 + 35mm f/1.4G and an Eye-Fi Pro X2 on my road trip in Norway. This is the second part in my testing series.
Why haven`t I thought of that? I got a tip from an Eye-Fi user asking me why I didn`t set my Android phone up as a HotSpot instead of having to disconnect the Direct Mode everytime I was to upload the photos I shot to Instagram. Well, I had some time off this afternoon setting up the card to access my Android HotSpot and testing it. Worked like a charm!
Experiencing disconnections, no network available and resetting the password on my Direct Mode was giving me a headache and I was almost about to giving up the project on the second day.
After reading a new update from Eye-Fi as well I found out that I was not the only one with issues concerning the Direct Mode.
Known Issues
The Nikon D800 / D800E is not compatible with Eye-Fi X2 Cards.
Eye-Fi engineering has found and confirmed a compatibility issue with the Eye-Fi card that impacts the use of Direct Mode in the Nikon D800. We are currently investigating an issue with the D800′s SD slot that appears to contribute to a lack of steady signal while the Eye-Fi card is in Direct Mode which makes the Direct Mode feature incompatible with the camera. The Nikon D800/D800e passes all other wireless network tests and is compatible with wireless transfers via a wireless router.
All this testing have drained the first of two EN-EL15 batteries that I brought with me, I hope that the new HotSpot method will streamline the process and save some batteries, three more days. It might be that not switching on and off the wireless unit will save some battery power on my phone as well.
I would also suggest that switching on the Upload to Eye-View through Wi-Fi only would reduce the cost on your cellphone bill.
The story behind the pictures today is quite simple, I woke up to rain and snoring from my next door neighbor around seven, packed my equipment and drove to Jaren. Crossing a “mountain” it suddenly started snowing, but luckily in Jaren it had stopped. On my way back to Raufoss I stopped for a lunch not far from Lynga Skisenter and enjoyed the view. Continuing towards Raufoss I drove past some potato fields and stopped for another shot. Passing the exit by an accident I ended up in Gjøvik. Wops!
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photo: Bjørn Christiansen, bigcock in tight threesome with two chicks, blonde and ginger
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Cowsis and oxis
The recent week I’ve been in Hedemark, Hamar, Stange, photographing. This week I am going on another road-trip testing Nikon D800 and the Eye-Fi SD-Card with my HTC Sensation and the Eye-Fi Android App. Follow me on instagram to see some more action :)
The two photos in this post are from last weeks trip. The first is shot with a Canon EOS 1DmkIII with a Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 and the last one is shot with Nikon D800 and a 35mm f/1.4.
EDIT: Seems like I am going to Gjøvik, not Hamar, anyway ROADTRIP :p
October 2010 I did a fashion shoot with Hedvig Kristine Sundland from Trend Models out on Trolla in Trondheim. Helping me out on the location was my friend Rune Johansen, doing hair and make-up was Tina Larsen currently working at Heads Up hårstudio. The shoot was quite cold and I was working with at that time, new flash equipment, Elinchrom Ranger.
Hi and welcome to my blog / portfolio. My name is Bjørn Christiansen I am a 29 year old and live in Trondheim where I currently I work as a freelance photographer shooting fashion, commercial, documentary and portraits. Enjoy my site!
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kjetil Høiby at Voll Studentby
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Voll Studentby
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, My Dog, a Cocker Spaniel
