photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

Part two from my “fetch a ride”-fashion series with Kristin Folstad from Trend Models.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

Here are two pictures from the photo shoot my Kristin Folstad, Trend Models, earlier this month. The images are shot in natural light with a Canon EOS 1D Mark III and 24-105 f/4L, not quite the ultimate camera to use outdoors, in my opinion.

This weekend there will be a little calmer on the photo front with only two photo shoots, model testing and possibly baby photography. Days and weeks go by or to portraiture and group photography of children, adolescents and adults aged six months to retirement.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Operahuset

Last weekend I was on a little relaxation trip to Oslo and played a role as a tourist. I was a little trip to the opera roof, Akershus Fortress, Aker Brygge, trawled up and down Karl Johan and the overall two hours Jernbanetorget. Apart from the barrier around the government quarter, there were no major changes since I lived there in 2002/03 as a conscript in His Majesty the King’s Guard.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

Here are six pictures from my photo shoot with Kristin Folstad, from Trend Models, this weekend wearing a orange sweater and jeans. The photo is naturally lit, no fancy flashes and no reflectors, just straight up against the wall on a parking lot in down-town Trondheim (Yes, it makes Trondheim sound like a huge city). Anyway, Kristin had dyed her hair and needed some new pictures for her portfolio. Her new hair colour matched her well and making it easier for me to spot the difference between Kristin and her twin sister Marie Folstad.

Some old photos of Kristin Folstad

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Kristin Folstad

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Kristin Folstad

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Kristin Folstad

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Kristin Folstad

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Kristin Folstad

Today I had my first model testing in ages, it felt. I photographed Kristin Folstad from Trend Models, the model agency here in Trondheim, downtown Trondheim. I had planned for an open shadow-shoot and the overcast weather provided the perfect light for todays shoot. Though it started to pour down half way through and we had to pack up our things and finish of.
Styling and make-up was done by Kristin, clothes are mainly from Gina Tricot. Tomorrow I’ll have my last model testing this weekend, hope the weather doesn’t ruin the shoot. I am hoping to borrow a Canon 5D Mk II of my room mate to shot a short film too.

I have also updated my site a bit, added some more links in the link-section and removed the dead links, renewed the font on the titles and added a photo galleryThe photo gallery is in the test phase, give it a brows through (around 3300 pictures) and give me some feedback if you’d like.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Kristin Folstad, makeup artist: Hong-My Thi Nguyen

A double exposure beauty portrait of Kristin Folstad from Trend Models. The portraits in this series of Kristin was taken during the photo marathon we had at school for a competition in creating a poster for Trondheim Jazzfest. Maybe I should have gone with this photo instead of the one I delivered for the contest.

Making this photo

The technical aspect of making this photo is quite easy. Set up the lighting you want. For this type of image you’ll need a flash, either a studio strobe or a speedlight. Place your model and instruct her what to do when the flash fires. Find the focus point. Set the aperture to whatever you have metered the the light setup. Shutter speed is crucial for this type of images, instead of freezing the image with a shutter of 1/125 or 1/250 or what ever you normally use in studio photography, turn the shutter speed to about two or three seconds to give the model time to do what you have instructed her or him to do. Keep the ambient light low or if you can control it, switch all existing light off to have a pitch black studio. Press down the shutter button, trigger the flash manually as many times as you want. The more exposures you have, the lighter and abstract the images get. I tend to stick with two or three exposures.

Here are some more double exposures I’ve done of Karina Kruksve

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Karina Kruksve

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Karina Kruksve