Norsk Fotofagskole, the school where I study has recently published a new website replacing the old one which has been on-line since the school started. The new page will be more functional and less graphical as the old page was. Information about the different courses and what we do at school will be easier to find.
They have also began using Issuu for publishing our work. The Issuu I have added in this post were some of the most liked pictures during our photo marathon in January. Front page of the magazine is a picture of a Sinar F2 that I took trying to animate it.
Tomorrow evening I am taking the buss to Gardermoen and on Saturday I am leaving on a jet plane heading for Marrakesh in Morocco. The five first days of my stay we are going to work with documentary photography documenting the life of Marrakesh. The last few days we are just going to enjoy and do some of our own projects.
Since I have been ill for almost two weeks now I haven’t had the time thinking about what I can expect. I am thinking about starting to pack very soon, but what to bring? The weather says about 22% humidity and 18 degrees Celsius. I think of Africa as hot, but this might not be the case.
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Photographing the Sinar - Realfagsbygget, NTNU Gløshaugen
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Photographing the Sinar - Realfagsbygget, NTNU Gløshaugen
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Photographing the Sinar - Realfagsbygget, NTNU Gløshaugen
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Photographing the Sinar - Realfagsbygget, NTNU Gløshaugen
The Sinar F2 on location. This is the last part of my series with the camera, both in studio and location for now. The series was taken during the photo marathon we had at school.
Photographing for Hipster.no
Tonight I am hitting the cinema to watch Tron: Legacy with my friend Sascha Njaa before visiting Kos Bar&Lounge at 00:00 and Vega Club at 01:00. Dress up, put on the happy face and get photographed.
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera
Since last post much has happen on the project, “Give Wall-E Life- to Sinar”,I am working on. I’ve done post production on fourteen photos, both studio / product done Wednesday afternoon and the shots on location I did yesterday. I went for the cool, blue style I almost always use on my photos. They are all in black and white, and high contrast. Here are six images that didn’t make it for the final selection of eight images. Thank you Sascha and Mimoza for helping me picking out the best photos. I trust you guys made the right choices.
The six reasons these pictures weren’t included in the last package.
Image one was looking a bit to similar to the one I chose for the first image in the series. Image two you needed to have the reference to Wall-E to really understand the picture. Three and four was too similar to each other, they were also a bit boring comparing to the eight I have picked for the finals. Number five was too heavy with its whole, massive dark space. I like the rhyme and repetition and the soft lighting, but it didn’t cross the finish line. The Last and sixth picture looks just like a cropped image of the main, opening picture of my series.
Behind the photo
The location shots are taken at Realfagsbygget at NTNU Gløshaugen, the product photos are taken in studio. All with natural lighting and a shutter of at least one second. I believe the ISO to be about 800 on the studio-shots and 200 on location. The aperture varies between f/2, f/16, f/22 and even f/32 on some pictures. Everything is take with a tripod attached to get the really long exposures.
I will try to publish the final series during noon tomorrow if I manage staying awake. In about five hours I will have the final evaluation of this photo marathon, hoping to get some sleep now.
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera
photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Sinar - Large Format Camera
The Sinar large format camera is a swiss made camera that we use at school, mainly for architecture photography during the spring on the second semester. It’s large format and its tilt-shift capabilities makes it the number one choice when it comes to photographing architecture. Since this camera and format is such a large part of the photographic history I wanted to portray it in its right environment, modern architecture, at NTNU Gløshaugen and Realfagsbygget. In one of our first assignments in the architecture course, we photograph this building and many photographers will recognize this as they enter the school. One of the reasons that I didn’t shoot a random fashion portrait of a person is that if my series, or picture, is to be selected, it is going to hang on one of the main walls of the school for quite a time and I am afraid that people will get quite tired of looking at the same face day in and day out.
The next 12 hours
Yesterday I photographed the Sinar in studio, found some interesting angles and details. Today, in company of Sascha Njaa, I went to NTNU Gløshaugen with the Sinar, photographed some architecture photos with the Sinar as my model. I was trying to give the Sinar some kind of sould giving the feeling that the Sinar was exploring Gløshaugen more than photographing it. Now I have a long night in front of me. First off is choosing what pictures I want to have in my series, then post production, and then again selecting further more and at last mounting the whole series on another picture of the wall where they are going to hang.
By the time I’m done with all this, I am going to have my breakfast, head for school and have my evaluation at 9:30 am. Wish me good luck!
It’s about an hour till the show starts on NRK3 and I am a bit anxious. I just came home from kick boxing exercise and I am a bit tired. I try to convince myself that it isn’t that bad and it was a reason i applied when they searched for contestants. Now I’m going to hit the shower and head of to Sofie Brovold, a classmate who has gathered a bunch of friends, made waffles and are going to watch this nights episode. Have a great time watching Dating i mørket at 21:40, NRK3.
By the way, today I was a model for Martine Lein Skrove for her assignment in the photo marathon. A bit cold walking around in Trondheim with just a t-shirt and my camera. Take a look at her photo blogg!
Today I were shooting group portrait of a bunch of instructors at 3T Pirbadet for my assignment group portrait at work. I was thinking about both asking the fire department, some friends at the café Bare Blåbær at Solsiden and the army if they would be so kind as to lend me some soldiers. The fire department had a major exercise today and the one hour notice was a bit to much to ask. My friends at Bare Blåbær were a bit too late to reply and the army had the time tomorrow. 3T on the other hand, and my instructors, were so kind as to set a side a few hours for me and lend me their location. This first photo is just a test photo of my reflection in the window. I’ve set up two Nikon SB-900 on each side with white umbrellas and one SB-800 as a main light in front, 45 degrees in the left of the image. This flash were replaced by a Elinchrom Quadra flash head.
The first grader from school,Jon Danielsen, were so kind to assist me and take some behind the scenes-pictures for me at my photo shoot. Looking forward to see them.
By the way, since we have a bit more time to plan the next picture, till Tuesday, I am going to shoot the army picture tomorrow afternoon just because I can.
I’m not the only one doing this photo marathon at school. I’ve searched the web and visited some of my classmates blogs, tumblrs and homepages and come over quite a few good photos and I’m proud to present you some of these in this post.
Ida Oppen shot this commercial product photo of a cellphone and in use. Nice approach and good technical skills makes. Give her a minute at her tumblridaoppen.tumblr.com
photo: Martine Lein Skrove
Do you feel hungry? I do, this burger was made by Martine Lein Skrove shot in studio at school. A real nice looking burger, a lot of saturated vegetables and a good reflection. Great studio skills.
This last photographer and class mate I am showing you today is Jarand Boge. A nice solution to the assignment “Reflection”. Here is Madeleine Nilsson posing with a rubber horse head. Strange, creepy, but has this cool awesomeness. Visit Jarand Boge’s tumblr at jarand.tumblr.com.
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!
