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Kristin Folstad – TWO

Bjørn Christiansen — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:43:12 +0000

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kristin Folstad

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

Fetching a taxi with Kristin Folstad

Bjørn Christiansen — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:41:24 +0000

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.

Kristin Folstad and the Orange Sweater

Bjørn Christiansen — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:59:43 +0000

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

Kristin Folstad – Downtown Trondheim

Bjørn Christiansen — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:55:30 +0000

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.

Fashion in Ringvebukta

Bjørn Christiansen — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:09:09 +0000

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Viktoria Konstanse Strand Kvalsvik (Trend Models)

Here are two pictures from fashion series I did with Viktoria Konstanse Kvalsvik Trend Models. Location is Ringvebukta at Lade in Trondheim. We started early in the morning and was finished just before lunch, which meant that I got a pretty harsh light right before noon that I was looking for to make these particular pictures. From what I’ve been told is the Victoria is currently in New York and working as a model, doing catwalks and photo shoots.

During the next week I scheduled a photo shoot with Liv-Miriam Nortømme who runs Fysionett.Blogg.no which is a blog for about exercising and such. As a matter of fact I have spent some of my spare time here in Mo i Rana following easy home exercising-guide, doing some squats. I have had one photo shoot with Liv-Miriam right before Christmas 2010 with her sister Rachel Nordtømme. The pictures we shoot were styled with clothes from Retro in Trondheim. Check out her blog!

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Liv-Miriam Nordtømme og Rachel Nordtømme, mua: Trine Sletvold Sundli

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Liv-Miriam Nordtømme, mua: Trine Sletvold Sundli

Otherwise, the weekend is quite packed with photography, hopefully there will have a shoot with Kristin Folstad on Saturday and one with Carina Velve, both from Trend Models.

Beauty Portrait with Kristin Folstad – Part V

Bjørn Christiansen — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:46:20 +0000

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

Beauty Portrait with Kristin Folstad – Part IV

Bjørn Christiansen — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:11:27 +0000

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

Part four of the beauty portrait series with Kristin Folstad. This picture stands out from the rest of the series because of the models mood. She is a bit sweeter and more happy, other than that the lighting and makeup is the same.

This weeks courses

This week and the two next weeks we are going to photograph magazine portraits of a production line companies. Like the ones we shot for Prima AS last spring. I am thinking about going back to Orkdal to see if any Orkel would be interested in a having me photographing for them.

A night out with Sascha Njaa and Jon Danielsen

Bjørn Christiansen — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:39:10 +0000

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

Beauty Portrait with Kristin Folstad – Part III

Bjørn Christiansen — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:28:59 +0000

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

Before I start post production of my architecture photos I decided to publish yet another beauty portrait of Kristin Folstad. Makeup artist is still Hong-My Thi Nguyen, a first grader at Norsk Fotofagskole. Fun fact: Kristins sister was modelling for Jon Danielsen yesterday as he was shooting his fashion assignment. You can see the photos he took at his blog. Both Marie and Kristin Folstad are models at Trend Models

Dating i Mørket

I also had my five seconds of fame tonight. If anybody was wondering if they saw me and hear me speak this following sentence;

Man kan si sitt om glamourmodella, men de e jo persona de òg

You heard and saw perfectly right, no worries I just committed a social suicide. Next Wednesday at 21:40, NRK3, Dating i Mørket. Have fun :)

Beauty Portrait with Kristin Folstad – Part II

Bjørn Christiansen — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:06:54 +0000

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

This is the second picture in my series I shot with Kristin Folstad yesterday. The shot was taken for a poster-competition and the photo marathon that is ongoing these three weeks in January. This is a more cute, melancholic and sweet portrait of Kristin, no hard facial expression as the first one were. Makeup and hair is done by Hong-My Thi Nguyen supervised by me.

Lighting technique

This portrait is a high-key photo which is a technique where most part of the information in the picture is on the right side of the histogram, instead of a mid-key photo which has all information spread evenly throughout the histogram, the opposite of high-key is low-key, which has all its information in the left side of the histogram. A high-key photo is fairly light and the shadow areas, which in most photos define the shape. This particular series is shot with four light sources, two Elinchrom BX Ri 600 with strip-light softbox from each side and behind the model as a kicker-light defining the models edge and one beauty dish about 45 degrees above the model and almost straight on. Since the boom wasn’t available I had to use a regular tripod. To avoid having the tripod in the models face, the beauty dish is positioned slightly to the left of the model. Also I have modified the beauty dish with a grid to give more contrast to the image. The last light is also a flash head with a softbox behind and right of the model shooting at a slight angel at the background give it a nice, even light.
The last thing in this rig is three polystyrene boards painted black, two on each side and one as a ceiling or roof above the model. This gives the image more contrast instead of having all the white walls in the studio casting reflection and killing the nice shadow the beauty dish makes.

Next assignment

We had evaluation of the Jazzfest-posters we shot today, but we couldn’t publish since it was sort of a contest. Next assignment is shooting a commercial picture of glasses. I booked two models I haven’t shot before, so I will gain a bit new experience this time as well. I am going for a classical beauty-shot with strict styling, not very different from the series I did with Kristin yesterday. I went to Brilleland in Kongensgate and got to borrow four pairs of glasses, some from the new collection from Moods of Norway. Hoping styling, models, makeup and glasses will fit well together. Studio time is from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Wish me good luck!