photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Photographing the Sinar - Realfagsbygget, NTNU Gløshaugen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Photographing the Sinar - Realfagsbygget, NTNU Gløshaugen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Photographing the Sinar - Realfagsbygget, NTNU Gløshaugen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Photographing the Sinar - Realfagsbygget, NTNU Gløshaugen

The Sinar F2 on location. This is the last part of my series with the camera, both in studio and location for now. The series was taken during the photo marathon we had at school.

Photographing for Hipster.no

Tonight I am hitting the cinema to watch Tron: Legacy with my friend Sascha Njaa before visiting Kos Bar&Lounge at 00:00 and Vega Club at 01:00. Dress up, put on the happy face and get photographed.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera

Since last post much has happen on the project, “Give Wall-E Life- to Sinar”,I am working on. I’ve done post production on fourteen photos, both studio / product done Wednesday afternoon and the shots on location I did yesterday. I went for the cool, blue style I almost always use on my photos. They are all in black and white, and high contrast. Here are six images that didn’t make it for the final selection of eight images. Thank you Sascha and Mimoza for helping me picking out the best photos. I trust you guys made the right choices.

The six reasons these pictures weren’t included in the last package.

Image one was looking a bit to similar to the one I chose for the first image in the series. Image two you needed to have the reference to Wall-E to really understand the picture. Three and four was too similar to each other, they were also a bit boring comparing to the eight I have picked for the finals. Number five was too heavy with its whole, massive dark space. I like the rhyme and repetition and the soft lighting, but it didn’t cross the finish line. The Last and sixth picture looks just like a cropped image of the main, opening picture of my series.

Behind the photo

The location shots are taken at Realfagsbygget at NTNU Gløshaugen, the product photos are taken in studio. All with natural lighting and a shutter of at least one second. I believe the ISO to be about 800 on the studio-shots and 200 on location. The aperture varies between f/2, f/16, f/22 and even f/32 on some pictures. Everything is take with a tripod attached to get the really long exposures.

I will try to publish the final series during noon tomorrow if I manage staying awake. In about five hours I will have the final evaluation of this photo marathon, hoping to get some sleep now.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera

The Sinar large format camera is a swiss made camera that we use at school, mainly for architecture photography during the spring on the second semester. It’s large format and its tilt-shift capabilities makes it the number one choice when it comes to photographing architecture. Since this camera and format is such a large part of the photographic history I wanted to portray it in its right environment, modern architecture, at NTNU Gløshaugen and Realfagsbygget. In one of our first assignments in the architecture course, we photograph this building and many photographers will recognize this as they enter the school. One of the reasons that I didn’t shoot a random fashion portrait of a person is that if my series, or picture, is to be selected, it is going to hang on one of the main walls of the school for quite a time and I am afraid that people will get quite tired of looking at the same face day in and day out.

The next 12 hours

Yesterday I photographed the Sinar in studio, found some interesting angles and details. Today, in company of Sascha Njaa, I went to NTNU Gløshaugen with the Sinar, photographed some architecture photos with the Sinar as my model. I was trying to give the Sinar some kind of sould giving the feeling that the Sinar was exploring Gløshaugen more than photographing it. Now I have a long night in front of me. First off is choosing what pictures I want to have in my series, then post production, and then again selecting further more and at last mounting the whole series on another picture of the wall where they are going to hang.
By the time I’m done with all this, I am going to have my breakfast, head for school and have my evaluation at 9:30 am. Wish me good luck!

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, architecture: Hovedbygget at NTNU Gløshaugen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, architecture: Hovedbygget at NTNU Gløshaugen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, architecture: Hovedbygget at NTNU Gløshaugen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, architecture: Hovedbygget at NTNU Gløshaugen

Yesterdays assignment was to photograph four pictures of Hovedbygget at NTNU Gløshaugen. The building is in a gothic style and was finished in 1910 and was the first of many buildings at NTH (NTNU). The architecture is quite special, a hall about 40 meters tall makes up the main area and where one can move between the floors, get to the auditoriums and the library. There are also some offices at this old building. I believe the open space, arches and staircases was the main detail of the thoughts and ideas behind this building. A large window situated at the south end makes out the main light. When the sun is shining through them it makes up a spectacular scene on the opposite wall where the light falls. Unfortunately yesterdays weather was overcast and no sun.
My four pictures wants to tell the story how to move around the building, starting with a staircase leading up to the second floor. You can also move in the side halls as separate areas making out the main hall. I also wanted to show the main window at the south wall and give this cathedral-feeling with the arches in the ceiling and how the light was cast from the large window to the other side. I didn’t have wider angel than a 24mm, so the picture was maybe not as spectacular as I had hoped for. At last I wanted to show off the whole space of the hall by shooting an overview picture.

Evaluation in a few moments, hope the headmaster likes this collage.

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, produktdesigner: Torhild Hove

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, produktdesigner: Torhild Hove

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, produktdesigner: Torhild Hove

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, produktdesigner: Torhild Hove

Jeg fotograferer andre ting en fashion og mote, det som stod på tapetet i går var produktfoto av salt- og pepperbøsser utviklet av Torhild Hove ved Produktdesign på NTNU Gløshaugen. Jeg ble kontaktet av henne etter kurset Sascha Njaa og jeg hadde for linjeforeningen Leonardo i Oktober 2010, hvor hun lurte på om jeg kunne ta produktbilder av de tre produktene hun hadde utviklet.

Oppsett

Lysoppsett - Produktfoto

Lysoppsettet var ganske enkelt og greit rett frem. Aluminiumsplate med svak kuv lyssatt med en oktaboks bakfra på blender f/16 og en strip-boks fra høyresiden for å få tegning i fronten med en varierende lysstyrke på fra f/8-16. I tillegg brukte jeg to sorte isoporplater på hver side av aluminiumsplata for å dra ut reflekser og skape litt hardere kontrast i kantene av produktene. På noen av bildene har jeg også brukt ei plate av hvit plexiglass for å reflektere inn litt mer lys og sort papp for å flagge ut strø-lys.

Erfaringer

Erfaringer jeg gjorde meg var at små motiver er vanskelig å flagge ut med store lyskilder. Å lyssette en pyramide med alle fire sidene er umulig med mindre man hever kamerastandpunktet. I denne sammenhengen skulle jeg fotografere en pyramideformet salt-bøsse som hadde en fått tuppen dratt ut til den ene siden. Stilig form, men hadde jeg fotografert den ovenfra hadde den jeg kanskje ikke fått med åpningen som jeg anså som en veldig viktig detalj på produktet. Dessuten ville bildet stå seg ut i fra resten av serien om jeg plutselig endra kamerastandpunktet høyere enn på de andre bildene.
Forslaget fra foreleseren i produktfotografering, Jan Christian Sørlie, fra Spot Foto, foreslo at jeg skulle gjøre om alle objektene til path og rekonstruere bildene som datagrafikk. Jeg slo i fra meg tanken ganske fort.