photo:Bjørn Christiansen, Home Guard

This is the second picture in my series that I shot yesterday of the home guard (heimeværnet) out on Ladehammeren in Trondheim. I was hoping that the photo shoot would be at around 3 p.m. that afternoon so I didn’t have to struggle with keeping the ambient lighting low and full power on my flash heads, but the grunts had their leave for the weekend at that hour. The shoot were taking place at half past twelve that afternoon, the ambient light was about f/8.0 at 1/125s and ISO200. So what I did was fire off the flash at f/11.5 to lower the ambient light and further more lower it in post production. The reason was that I wanted the picture to look a bit like a nighttime operation with the soldiers lurking around an industrial area. Hope you like the result.

Now I’m cleaning my lenses, formatting my memory cards and charging my batteries, making myself ready for tonights first photo shoot for Hipster.no at Vega. I got my press pass and my cards that I am going to give away to my fortunate models. Have a nice weekend!

photo:Bjørn Christiansen, Home Guard

Today I had a photo shoot with four soldiers from the Home Guard, stationed at Værnes. This is one of a quite a few pictures I shot of the very cooperative lads. Suddenly at my location there were this big horn-shape sculpture that NTNU had placed there, why get irritated when you can use it for what it’s worth. I organized my four grunts at the opening, lit them with a Elinchrom Quadra from behind and two SB-900 as a sandwich in front. It was a cold photo shoot and I believe my assistant photographer Jon Danielsen shot some behind scenes and video that will be published soon.
This photo shoot was originally the main plan of attack if yesterdays shoot failed. It’s not everyday I have such fine soldiers at my disposal so I skipped a meeting at school and did this photo shoot instead, with the blessing of Roar Øhlander, the headmaster of our school.
As you may have guessed there will be more parts in this series. I came home from the shoot about one and a half hour ago so I haven’t been able to look at and select more photos for post production, yet.

Feel safe with this guys guarding your door when the enemy is close?

Egentlig tenkte jeg å bruke to fra forsvaret i min politiske brosjyre-serie, men idéen hadde ingen positiv vinkling så det ble til at jeg prøvde ut litt av hvert for å se hva som kunne passe til et eventuelt senere fotoopptak. Hvis alt går etter planen skal jeg bli med på øvelse med forsvaret en kveld i neste uke.