This past two and a half months I’ve been filming quite a few videos with a Nikon D7000 I got to borrow from Nikon Norge. This piece is one of the last films I shot before I returned it back to Camera & Videoteknikk AS and is a behind the scenes-thing for Ane Aspen’s last shoot at Norsk Fotofagskole. The photos she shot of Hedvig Kristine Sundland fromTrend Models are going on display at Fokus, our exhibition today.
Makeup artist is Anniken Tiset, designer of the jacket is Marianne Høst, second assistant is Leiv Aspén from Buranhus.

You can see the photos Ane shot of Hedvig at our exhibition Fokus at Fotofagskolen this weekend. Opening is at 20:00 tonight.

Fokus - Avgangsutstilling på Norsk Fotofagskole 2011

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

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

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

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

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

This is the third and last part from my fashion-roadtrip-shoot with Viktoria Konstanse Strand Kvalsvik from Trend Models. A few more days and I have completed two years at Norsk Fotofagskole. The clothes are mainly from MTWTFSS Weekday, Bianco Footwear and BikBok.
I have spent the evening at school printing and preparing three photos for Fokus, the final exhibition on Friday.

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

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

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

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

This is the second part of the fashion-series I did for my exam at Norsk Fotofagskole. Model is Viktoria Konstanse Strand Kvalsvik from Trend Models in Trondheim. Clothes are mainly borrowed from BikBok at Mercursenteret, but also MTWTFSS Weekday. Shoes are borrowed from Bianco Footwear in Nordre Gate.

FOKUS – Avgangsutstilling NFFS 2011

Fokus - Avgangsutstilling på Norsk Fotofagskole 2011. Ikke glem å kom!

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, models: Mats Berglund, Isabel Nilsen and Chris Andre Nordtvedt

This is my composition that I made of five photos. The pictures of the models are shot on green screen in studio, the rest are from different locations in Trondheim. The advertisement is for a fictional carpenter, even though Mats Berglund does work as one on regular basis. The poster was supposed to be a bit heroic, film-poster-look-alike.

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

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

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

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

This is the first part from the fashion series I shot of Viktoria Konstanse Strand Kvalsvik (Trend Models) in Melhus and Skaun. Clothes worn at this shoot was borrowed from BikBok, MTWTFSS Weekday and Bianco Footwear.

FOKUS – Avgangsutstilling NFFS 2011

Fokus is an exhibition of photos shot by second year students at Norsk Fotofagskole as the last part of our exam. Everyone is invited and the show starts at 8 pm Friday the 10th of June at our school, Nedre Ila 39, 7018 Trondheim. Map

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, models: Viktoria Konstanse Strand Kvalsvik (Trend Models) & Sascha Njaa

Today it is just ten days left until my exam is due, my days are numbered as a student at Norsk Fotofagskole. For the past 20 days I have been photographing fashion, product, architecture, commercial and ads and classical portraits and spent many hours in post production. Tuesday I am doing a re-shoot of the toaster, Wednesday I am photographing food and Thursday till Sunday will be the last days in post production. Today I had a re-shoot of the fashion-task, this time with Viktoria Konstanse Strand Kvalsvik from Trend Models, with clothes and shoes from BikBok, Weekday and Bianco Footwear. Location was Øysand in Melhus and E39 in Skaun, places I’ve been driving by for quite a few times, but never stopped.
The bus shed is right outside Buvika and still in use. The picture is of Viktoria, the model, and my favourite assistant Sascha Njaa.

Last assignment

This is my last assignment at Norsk Fotofagskole. The assignment was shooting a fashion catalogue, 10 outfits, all colour, 24 pages including front and back. We were also supposed to make a little art piece using video presenting the clothes.

Today I delivered my final PDF to CopyCat in Trondheim, printing two copies of my magazine. Last night I was finished clipping and editing my little art piece and it came out quite okay.

Behind the Scenes

Storyboards, moodboards and a plan of attack were worked and evaluated in groups with our teacher Geir Terje Nergaard. Some time before Easter I made contact with Maria Nordstrøm Solberg from Modelbureauet Modelbooking, a model booking agency in Århus. She helped me find some models that needed some photos for their portfolio and could do the shoots for free. Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen, a singer in Leaving a Small Town and Stephanie Bäckström fit the catalogue profile I had planned.

Friday before Easter I left Trondheim heading towards Århus, Saturday Mimoza Rrusta, my stylist at the shoot, and I went out looking for clothes and shoes that matched the profile. Mainly looking at stores at Bruuns Galleri in Århus having a tight budget we stuck to Vero Moda, H&M, Bestseller, MbyM and BikBok. As usual Bianco Footwear (Århus) were as kind as to lend me two pair of shoes. Sunday we, Mimoza and I, took the bus to Moesgård Beach scouting the location planning where to shoot and film. Monday we went for a walk to Århus Botaniske Have, not far from where I stayed. The location were not as I had thought it would be, so after the shoot Tuesday, we visited Århus University which worked perfectly as a backdrop for my second shoot.
Tuesday Stinne showed up at around 9 o’clock in the morning ready for make-up and hair. We started shooting at the beach around one and were done around four. The second day we started hair and make-up around noon and were done shooting at the university around six pm. Friday I meet my second model Stephanie in the town centre of Århus, taking the bus to Bellevue Beach around two pm. Mimoza tagged along fixing hair and make-up. This day we concentrated mainly of shooting film for the art piece. That evening I had around 700 images to pick down to 30 for post processing.
Sunday afternoon I arrived back home in Trondheim starting post processing my photos, final touch and stitched together in a PDF were done last night before starting editing the art piece.

Nikon Norge – Nikon D7000

Before I left for Denmark I sent Nikon Norge an email asking them if I could borrow a DSLR with filming capability for testing and for my little art piece. They were as kind as to lend me a Nikon D7000 and a Nikon Nikkor 17-55 f/f2.8 through Camera & Videoteknikk AS. Since I have a Nikon D700 as a main camera and have shot with Nikon the last three years D7000 was fairly easy to operate. Just a little flick of a switch and start the live-view-mode and press the record button. Without a Hoodman Loupe I had some problems focusing, but mounting the camera to a tripod using it as a shoulder-rig I got a bit more stability event though it’s not perfect. I had also some problems with skin-tone in my film-clips, but I figured it was just my novice-experience that was the reason.

Tomorrow at 9 am. we are having the last evaluation before final exam. Four weeks, maybe 80 – 100 photos, 8 – 10 different styles, including fashion, architecture, commercial and portrait.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stephanie Bäckström (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stephanie Bäckström (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stephanie Bäckström (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stephanie Bäckström (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stephanie Bäckström (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stephanie Bäckström (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stephanie Bäckström (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking), hair and make-up: Mimoza Rrusta

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen (Model Booking)

This easter I spent the time in Århus photographing my last assignment at Norsk Fotofagskole, Fashion Catalog. The model from this particular picture is Stinne Tornøe Frederiksen from Model Booking, makeup and hair was done by Mimoza Rrusta and the location is Moesgård Strand in Århus.

The assignment was shooting at least 10 different outfits in one style, all color. Two photos from each outfit and every outfit was going to be presented in color. Also we had to deliver one 24-page PDF and one hard copy of the catalog and a video presenting the series. Now I’m done post processing all photos and fixing the PDF ready for the print tomorrow.

Centerfold-girl Bjørn Christiansen in Adresseavisen, photo: Vegard Eggen (Adressa)

On Wednesdays group photography at Norsk Fotofagskole I got snap-shot by Vegard Eggen, a photographer from Adresseavisen, during the building of the image with Rita Ottervik, Mayor of Trondheim. The photo was published in todays newspaper in the cultural section. After skimming through the story, I found out that there were a lot of more or less important politicians from the cultural department of Norway.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Rita Ottervik på Norsk Fotofagskole

Today Trondheims mayor Rita Ottervik and other political people in the cultural sector were visiting Norsk Fotofagskole. After a short meeting in our auditorium I shot a group picture of the whole gathering. Oscar Stoltenberg Johansen was helping me out testing lights and preparing the prints afterwards. Thank you :)