Having a double booking because your brain sometimes overflow can happen. At this shoot with Rachel Nordtømme I had just did that. To maintain the pace and production in addition to studying, I had a goal to have at least one extra photo shoot a week so keeping track on what deals I had done with what models was a bit of a challenge. The other model I also had made a deal with that evening was Trine Eide. Luckily for me Line Sofie Steinfinsbø was up for the challenge doing hair and make-up on both models. I remember Rachel was a bit of an underdog when she discovered that Trine also was going to model at the same time, but I calmed her down telling her to watch Trine and she might pick up some tricks. I believe Rachel did great on this shoot showing of a more bad ass attitude than she does in for instance Adressa’s Advent Calender with Rachel Nordtømme;)
Keeping the cost reduced by having the model bring some of their own clothes is a great way to practicing photography. My main goal in having to do photo shoots, or something with photo each day, even Sundays or in the holiday is to get better at it. One cannot get any better without practice. By doing shoots as often as you can, the different techniques you obtain can be applied when it really counts, both when it comes to lighting your scene and setting up your camera, but also the experience by directing a model finding out what works and what not to do. The look it self on the final result does not really depend on what the model is wearing or what make-up he or she has put on, it is what you manage to have your model to express that gives the image interestingness. Okay, you need to have some idea of what clothes to bring and what to put together, but all in all for practicing, it doesn’t really matter. Rachel had an okay wardrobe and we stuck with what she had.
Last winter, 2011) when I still was a student at Norsk Fotofagskole, I did a photo shoot with blogger and hurdler Rachel Nordtømme. Fixing hair and make-up was Line Sofie Steinfinsbø. Here are two more photos of Rachel from this shoot. First time I shot photos of Rachel Nordtømme was right before Christmas 2011, with her big sister tagging along. Rumors has it that Rachel is soon to be an aunt. Congrats!
Last Monday in the lunch hour my model Maria Ishoel Frelsøy, assistant and make-up artist Line Sofie Steinfinsbø had a little video shoot at the rooftop of Trondheim Torg for my fashion project. The preview and the rest of the clip is filmed with Canon 5D Mark II and a 50mm f/1.4. Soundtrack is Soleplassland by Tre Små Kinesere.
Today I received a Nikon D7000 that I got to borrow from Camera & Videoteknikk AS for product testing, mainly the movie capabilities of this DSLR.
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Rachel Nordtømme, makeup and hair: Line Sofie Steinfinsbø
Third part of my photo-series with Rachel Nordtømme I did in the beginning of February. Makeup-artist and hair was done by Line Sofie Steinfinsbø.
Yesterday I was at Kos Bar&Lounge and Club Vega for Hipster.no. It was a bit stress full, but I got to meet quite a few interesting people that was having a nice evening. The pictures are being post-processed by a Hipster and are coming on-line Monday morning.
Traveling again
Tickets for both Oslo and Århus is now payed. I am going to stay in Oslo for three days photographing Truls Svendsen and hopefully Rachel Nordtømme for my assignments at Norsk Fotofagskole. I’ll be back next Wednesday with my hard drive packed with raw-material for post processing.
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Rachel Nordtømme, makeup and hair: Line Sofie Steinfinsbø
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Rachel Nordtømme, makeup and hair: Line Sofie Steinfinsbø
This is the second part of my fashion series I shot with Rachel Nordtømme last Sunday. Makeupartist is Line Sofie Steinfinsbø whom I used on quite a few photo shoots the past months. Shoes are borrowed from Bianco Footwear at Trondheim Torg, other styling is Rachels own wardrobe.
Reporter for TV2
Rachel had a bit unfortunate picture in yesterdays newspaper so I figured I’ll publish two more to compensate somewhat strange face mimics VG-photographer André Pedersen managed to catch her with. Hopefully Rachel would be more pleased with these two portraits I’ve published of her. The story was about Rachel Nordtømme, being Petter Northug’s girlfriend, covering the World Ski Championship for TV2. Want to know more about the World Ski Championship, head over to www.oslo2011.no. This is probably one of the few times I will promote this form of sports on my blogg.
Sunday I shot two fashion-shoots with Rachel Nordtømme and Trine Eide. Makeup artist were Line Sofie Steinfinsbø and the theme were tough. T-shirts are from H&M.
Sick leave for a week
It’s less than two weeks until I am leaving for Marrakesh, school trip with Norsk Fotofagskole. Last week I took the dukoral, the cholera vaccine, and reacted quite badly. I got almost a week sick leave for having hyperthermia, a running nose, soar throat and head ache. I thought I was well Sunday morning so I went on photographing the shoot with Rachel and Trine, when I got home I got worse again. I will be up and fighting on Thursday, hopefully :)
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Rachel Nordtømme, makeup and hair: Line Sofie Steinfinsbø
I couldn’t take my hands of the pictures today and had to run one through post production despite fever, head ace, soar throat and a running nose. I liked this portrait of Rachel Nordtømme very much because of her relaxed expression, the wind machine gave the hair a little breeze to lighten the mood and give the portrait more dynamic instead of just an anti-posed posture.
Makeup and hair is done by Line Sofie Steinfinsbø.
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
Except lacing of dramaturgy between the mirror and the environment, the photo was accepted and no need to re-shoot it.
The next assignment is a group portrait of workers in action. It is to be glossy, commercial with a lot of energy. I just received the task and is still in figuring out what to do. If anybody has some ideas for me, they are very welcome to share them.
It’s early morning and I don’t know how many of you guys read blogs at this time of day, but I’ll publish a photo that didn’t make the selection for evaluation. It’s the second best in the series I shot yesterday of Zeleste Vejle as a mixture of fashion, retro and straight portrait. The assignment was photograph a portrait of a persons reflection. Makeup artist is Line Sofie Steinfinsbø.
This is my second assignment of the photo marathon that we are having at school. This time the task was to photograph a portrait of a person, easy you may say. The boundaries were that we couldn’t point the camera directly at the person, but at the persons reflection. It was supposed to have a melancholic mood and maybe fit in a magazine for psychological health care. I approached the assignment with a naive point of view wanting to use the bus and the reflections of travelers, or a rear view mirror of the car. I didn’t do either. I called up the makeup artistLine Sofie Steinfinsbø, who I have been working with on the past fashion photo shoots, asking her to come over to put some hard looking makeup on Zeleste Vejle. The idea was to give my photo a classical film noir-look with a hint of fashion.
The location of the photo shoot was situated right outside my door and I used three flashes to light the model. One directly at her face, one from the rear of the model giving her a definition on the back and the last one as a trigger-flash on the camera.
De fleste bildene i serien min er skutt med Nikon D700 med en 50mm f/1.4 med lukkerhastigheter rundt 1/20sekund til 1/250, med ISO rundt 400-3200. Vinterstid og desember gjorde forholdene for innendørs opptak med bare naturlig og tilstedeværende lys ganske vanskelig. Det ble mye håndholdt fotografering som ga meg en god del uskarpe bilder, men dette var også i tillegg til korninga i filmen, med på å gi serien et mer ekte uttrykk fremfor at jeg skulle begynne å rigge blitser. Litt hjelp fikk jeg av både reflektorer og hvite flater.
Bak kulissene
Under opptaket av Irresistible, undertøysopptaket til Heidi Hallseth, dukkehjem-opptaket til Elisabeth Richardsen og manne-moteserien til Jarand Boge ble det filmet litt med en Canon 5D MkII. Snuttene ble satt sammen og redigert av Jarand og skulle brukes under presentasjonen av magasinet vårt den siste skoledagen. Selv synes jeg det er utrolig morsomt og lærerrikt å se bak-kulissene til opptak av fotografer jeg ser opp til, både på grunn av å se litt tips til hvordan man kan gjøre ting i forhold til lyssetting og det at det bare er interessant å se arbeidsflyten igjennom et opptak.
Da var oppgaven vår mote-magasin, redaksjonell fashion, levert, diskutert, evaluert og vurdert. Det ble en fin andreplass på magasinet “Kvit”, bak motebladet “Escape”. En velfortjent seier. Her er bildene jeg trykket i magasinet vårt. Det kommer en god del flere som ikke ble med på utplukket fremover, så om du har lyst til å se romantisk retromote er det bare å følge med fremover.
I tillegg til andreklasses motemagasin hadde førsteklassingene innlevering av aktfotograferinga si, eller rettere sakt reklameopptakene sine for en manneparfyme. Her er noen av innleveringene de gjorde:
I god stil fortsetter jeg mine egne prosjekter i ved siden av prosjektene vi har på skolen. Dette er det andre opptaket med modellen Karina Kruksve. Denne gangen var det beautyportrett som stod på tapeten. Det er en sjanger jeg er veldig lite bevandret i, men jeg har fått med meg såpass at det er mye fokus på styling, hår og sminke. Tidligere på dagen i går gikk turen innom Panduro i Fjordgata for å se om de hadde noe jeg kunne pynte Karina med. Etter litt leting fant jeg to meter med sort dekorvev som kunne fungere. Dekorveven er sammenlimte fibre som lagde en luftig, men fin tekstur. Deretter gikk turen innom Make Up Store i Dronningensgate hvor jeg fikk tak i noen løsvipper og løsvippelim.
På skolen fikk jeg hjelp av Sascha Njaa til å rigge opp beautydishen min i et butterfly-lysoppsett. Dette oppsettet skal i teorien tegne en fin skygge under nesen og lyse opp ansiktet ganske greit. I tillegg til å kjøre litt standard oppsett satte jeg to sorte vegger inn mot modellen for å få litt mer kontrast i bildet. I tillegg til å skyte bare stillbilder har jeg også fått lånt Canon 5D Mark II av Jarand Boge for å skyte en liten bak-kulissene-vide for opptaket bare for å gi dere et lite inntrykk av hvordan jeg jobber.
Hi and welcome to my blog / portfolio. My name is Bjørn Christiansen I am a 29 year old and live in Trondheim where I currently I work as a freelance photographer shooting fashion, commercial, documentary and portraits. Enjoy my site!
