photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

This is part three of model test I had with Jennifer Hansen, Modelbureauet ModelBooking. Stylist of the photo shoot was Malene Micha Juhl, who did a fabulous job of preparing Jennifer for the different pictures. This part of the photo shoot is inspired by fashion photographer Richard Avedon and his airy jump-images, which is perhaps inspired by Henri Cartier Bresson’s picture in which a man jumping over a puddle. A good illustration of the theory behind “the decisive moment”. My thought behind this was that I had my shots of Jennifer posing static and now I wanted some movement. Her skirt was kind of wavy and letting her hair down enhanced the movement.
The technique I did to get these images the most sharp, in spite of a great movement was to lower the ambient light in the studio. Since this was a daglysstudio was a little difficult to cover the windows, but all the lights were turned off and setting the light of the flash was turned off. The camera was set to continuous focus, or AI Servo on Canon, an aperture of f/14 and a shutter speed of 1/200 second at ISO200. The reason that the aperture is set so low is to eliminate most of the ambient light and only let the flash freeze the picture. All three images are captured with just a flash.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Stephanie Bäckström

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Stephanie Bäckström

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Stephanie Bäckström

The second part from the photo shoot with Stephanie Bäckström from Modelbureauet Model Booking in Aarhus. Location is still “Your Rainbow Panorama” by Olafur Eliasson on the roof of the art museum Aros. Styling, hair and make-up is done by Maria Schläger Jensen.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

This is my part two from the fashion photo shoot I had with Jennifer Hansen, Modelbureauet Modelbooking in Ã…rhus. Styling, hair and make-up was done by Malene Micha Juhl. For these particular photos we wanted a cheeky, careless feel, a bit Kate Moss, heroin chic.

Orbis Ring Flash

Today I received my Orbis Ring Flash-gadget converting any speed lights into a ring flash. I haven’t had time to test it out yet, but I am planning two photo shoots this weekend. The difference between the Orbis Ring Flash and the more known Ray-Flash is that the ring it self is lit from beneath instead of forcing the light through a maze of mirrors before lighting the actual ray. Fredrik Kihle is a photographer who introduced me to the Orbis Ring Flash. Head over to his website and check out his projects with ring flash photo.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Stephanie Bäckström

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Stephanie Bäckström

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Stephanie Bäckström

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Stephanie Bäckström

Okay, there has been a lot of black and white images recently. Here comes the first part of a little more colorful model testing I did in Aarhus, at the art museum Aros (www.aros.dk) in what is called Your Rainbow Panomrama by Olafur Eliasson, opened 28 May 2011. We agreed with officers the day before to get the photograph to our portfolio and they said it was okay.
The model at the photo shoot was Stephanie Bäckström, who I have done a photo shoot with before. She is represented by Modelbureauet ModelBooking (www.modelbooking.com) in Aarhus, but is currently studying psychology in Aalborg. You can check out more work she has done on her blog, Steph-backstrom.blogspot.com. Styling, hair and makeup was done by stylist Maria Schläger Jensen, a talented girl who has done many good styling jobs for various photographers earlier. For more inspiring images, you should check out the website of Maria www.mariaschlager.com.
The first part of the series is more classic women’s fashion magazine-style and was photographed in the blue part of the art installation.
Since we agreed with the museum that there would be no fancy flash and big stuff around the photo shoot, I ended up using the 35mm f/2.0 and 50mm f/1.4, and a stripped Nikon D700 during the entire recording. I also used a SEKONIC 758DR, my light meter that is included in nearly every photo shoot I do. Some of the images have reflected light from a small reflector, otherwise there was not much that could help me get to the pictures.

More images from the photo shoot coming soon.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Jennifer Hansen

Jennifer Hansen has worked as a fashion model for Modelbureauet ModelBooking for about three years and made ​​several big jobs as a model. In addition to being represented by ModelBooking, Jennifer is studying medicine at the University of Århus.
Last week I was shooting model tests for Modelbureauet Modelbooking, in Ã…rhus and Jennifer. The plan was to have two models in one pictures doing some sister-like theme, but unfortunately one of the models hadn’t time to do the photo shoot. To help me put together outfits, do hair and make-up for photo shoot, Maria Solberg from the bureau, set me in contact with, Malene Juhl Micha. Malene does a lot of hair and make-up jobs. Her homepage, www.malenemicha.com, is worth a stopping by for inspiration or just eye-candy.
The photos in this post are lit with just one flash shot through a soft box, nothing fancy edge lights, or catch-light eyes. The studio we shot at were Skyderiet.dk who is run by Christina Lykke in Ã…rhus, Denmark.

This is Part I, so you should look forward to even more pictures of Jennifer Hansen in Part II, III and maybe IV. Both Jennifer and Malene was fantastic people to work with.