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

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

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 VÃ¥r 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.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Rachel Nordtømme, makeup and hair: Line Sofie Steinfinsbø

A bit too early after being ill for three days now I shot two fashion series with Rachel Nordtømme and Trine Eide a bit like the ones I shot of Oda Nordheim last Sunday. Today, my makeup artist Line Sofie Steinfinsbø, started with laying makeup and doing Trine’s hair. After a while Rachel arrived and got her hair and makeup done while I was photographing Trine. A helpful Sascha Njaa helped me rig the studio, both setting up the flash heads and meter the light.

Between the takes we got serious and shot some amazing pictures.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, models: Sascha Njaa and Trine Eide

photo: Sascha Njaa, models: Trine Eide and Bjørn Christiansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sascha Njaa doing his thing

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sascha Njaa doing his thing

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad posing in front of a shopping window

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad, Sascha Njaa, Jon Danielsen and Marie Folstad rocking Trondheim

I just got back in after a night on town with Sascha Njaa and Jon Danielsen. I meet the guys at Café Choco Boco in Nordre Gate as a part of my short, social life these three weeks during the photo marathon. Sascha was supposed to shoot his assignment “urban” that he got today at school. We sat down for about two hours talking about photo and such before we went out to shoot the photos. I don’t know how the outcome is but I have some “behind the scenes shots” from the shoot. Walking down Nordre Gate from Trondheim Torg we bumped into Kristin Folstad and Marie Folstad, had a shot photo shoot and went on to Solsiden to get Saschas last few shots before going home.

Now I should go to bed and get some sleep. A few hours until evaluation of my “Plate with fruit”-shot.

I’m still getting reminders that I had a pretty stupid, but innocent quote on “Dating i mørket” yesterday

Photo: Jon Danielsen, behind the scenes at 3T

Photo: Jon Danielsen, behind the scenes at 3T

Photo: Jon Danielsen, behind the scenes at 3T

Photo: Jon Danielsen, behind the scenes at 3T

Jon Danielsen were so kind to send me his behind the scenes shots from the photo shoot today.

photo:Bjørn Christiansen

Today I were shooting group portrait of a bunch of instructors at 3T Pirbadet for my assignment group portrait at work. I was thinking about both asking the fire department, some friends at the café Bare BlÃ¥bær at Solsiden and the army if they would be so kind as to lend me some soldiers. The fire department had a major exercise today and the one hour notice was a bit to much to ask. My friends at Bare BlÃ¥bær were a bit too late to reply and the army had the time tomorrow. 3T on the other hand, and my instructors, were so kind as to set a side a few hours for me and lend me their location. This first photo is just a test photo of my reflection in the window. I’ve set up two Nikon SB-900 on each side with white umbrellas and one SB-800 as a main light in front, 45 degrees in the left of the image. This flash were replaced by a Elinchrom Quadra flash head.
The first grader from school,Jon Danielsen, were so kind to assist me and take some behind the scenes-pictures for me at my photo shoot. Looking forward to see them.

By the way, since we have a bit more time to plan the next picture, till Tuesday, I am going to shoot the army picture tomorrow afternoon just because I can.