BJØRN CHRISTIANSEN | Photographer

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kim van Tuijl

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kim van Tuijl

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kim van Tuijl

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kim van Tuijl

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Kim van Tuijl

During my stay in Denmark covering the Copenhagen Fashion Week A/W2013 I did some model testing. These shots are from the lingerie / fashion photo shoot I had with Kim van Tuijl from CPHWOLVES. Make-up and styling was done by Ryanne Sambros with clothes from Episode. Equipment I used beside my camera was a big madras with a white bed sheet as a reflector to lighten the darker areas.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Michaela Theibel

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Michaela Theibel

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Michaela Theibel

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Michaela Theibel

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Michaela Theibel

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Michaela Theibel

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Michaela Theibel

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Michaela Theibel

After the Copenhagen Fashion Week I had decided to stay for a few more days to do some model testings before I left for Trondheim. I had made a few plans with a few models from different agencies and freelancers to do some shots. The pictures from this fashion photo shoot was of model Michaela Theibel with the help of makeup artist Louise Musse Christensen. As most of the testings I did, the location were just the models apartment being creative to find angles and building a slight liable story to the series. Since this was an abroad job, I didn’t have much photo equipment with me, no fancy light kits, just my lenses and a Nikon SB-900 speedlight.

Featured in TheViewMag

The lingerie-photo shoot I shot of Ivalu Sørensen (Le Management), with Dorthe K. Hansen from DK-Styling as a stylist, this autumn has been featured in The View Mag’s issue #9. The magazine is a non-profit project with a lot of different submissions from all over the world, concerning fashion. Head over to TheViewMag’s homepage and order a print for 19$ or look at it at Issuuu.

I also did a little video teaser for this shoot showing a little of what is done before the shoot and how the lighting conditions during the shoot was. The video was shot hand held with a Nikon D800.

Ivalu Sørensen – Lingerie from Bjørn Christiansen on Vimeo.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Hanne Lillery

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Hanne Lillery

In November I was in Orkdal doing an impulse photo shoot with Hanne Lillery (Trend Models). We drove around in Orkdal a Sunday morning not knowing what we really went for. This is what came out of this shoot.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Zeleste Vejle

Zeleste asked me to do a short shoot with her earlier this year. I grabbed the chance when I was in Orkdal picking up Marthe Engdal for another shoot I had planned later that day with Linda Fjølstad (Trend Models). This was what came out of an hour shoot with Zeleste. A quite different scene than I did with Linda later that day.

Behind the Scenes from the shoot with Marion Dyrvik Homlong, Miss Earth 2011

Behind the Scenes from the shoot with Marion Dyrvik Homlong, Miss Earth 2011

Behind the Scenes from the shoot with Marion Dyrvik Homlong, Miss Earth 2011

Yesterday I had the last shoot with Marion Dyrvik Homlong for her portfolio for Miss Earth 2011. The shoot was down town Trondheim right next to Vår Frues Kirke, the same location I did a shoot with Kristin Folstad a few weeks ago. My assistant on this recording was Karoline Holand Fosby, who also did the make-up and her hair.
Despite the sun, the cold autumn weather didn’t give us any warmth. The model was a bit frozen, the assistant was dreaming of a cup of freshly brewed coffee ground on exotic beans from Brazil and I struggled even with little sleep deprivation and cold fingers, but we still managed to accomplished a shooter without any major challenges. As you can see from the picture we keep on in open shade where I partly have the sun directly in the lens. The shutter was on average at 1/125s and aperture of f/4-5.6. ISO was set to 200 and we had plenty of natural light.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Kristin Folstad

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.

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

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Hedvig Kristine Sundland, make-up og hår: Tina Larsen

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Hedvig Kristine Sundland, make-up og hår: Tina Larsen

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Hedvig Kristine Sundland, make-up og hår: Tina Larsen

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Hedvig Kristine Sundland, make-up og hår: Tina Larsen

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Hedvig Kristine Sundland, make-up og hår: Tina Larsen

Da har jeg gått bananas med pensel og lag. Siste settet bilder fra opptaket mitt med Hedvig Kristine Sunland fra Trend Models. Sminke og hår er gjort av Tina Larsen. Takk til Rune Johansen for lån av garasjen på Trolla.
Alle bildene er fotografert med direkte blits med reflektor mot veggen.

Tidligere bilder av Hedvig Kristine Sundland

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Hedvig Kristine Sundland, make-up og hår: Tina Larsen

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Eline Bjerkan

Dette bildet er tatt i forbindelse med Farge og Estetikk-kurset vi hadde på fotofagskolen i mars. Modellen på bildet er Eline Bjerkan som har både gjort hår, sminke og styling selv. Eline har stått en god del modell for meg tidligere høsten 2009, noe jeg setter veldig stor pris på.
Bildet er satt opp og redigert en god del utenfor rammene til oppgaven vi hadde og var egentlig noe vi gjorde på slutten av opptaket for å gjøre noe litt friere og morsommere.

Planen denne uka

Etter endt påskeferie er det godt å vende tilbake til hverdagen, da spesielt med tanke på mange opptak som skal gjennomføres fremover. I går, tirsdag 6. April hadde jeg mitt første opptak med Marion Dyrvik Homlong, som ble vinner av Model of Norway, til modellkortet hennes. Marion skal den 24. April reise til Kina for å delta på World Beauty Congress hvor bildene fra modellkortet skal brukes. I går hjalp Tina Larsen meg med sminke og hår til opptaket, en tjeneste som skal gjengjeldes i form av opptak til hennes Barokk-oppsett-oppgave på H2-Akademiet. Elevene fra H2 skal også ha visning den 16. April på Rick’s Café av oppsettene sine. I dag blir det kaffe og planlegging av opptakene til både Tina Larsen og Siri Myran. Foreløpig location blir NTNU Gløshaugen. Modellene som er booket inn til opptakene er Trine Eide, Marie Folstad og Marion Dyrvik Homlong.
Jeg vil også takke Sascha Njaa for eminent assistering i form av utlån av objektivet sitt, Nikon 24-70 f/2.8, rigging og nedrigging av studio til både fashion og bikini-opptaket med Marion og for moralsk støtte da blodsukkeret var på det laveste.

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Sascha Njaa

Om alt går bra skal på torsdag og fredag, blir det modellscouting i Nordre på lørdag og aktfotografering igjen på søndag.

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, modell: Eline Bjerkan

Bilde nummer 2 i serien jeg leverte til plakateffekt-oppgaven på Norsk Fotofagskole. Modellen her er Eline Bjerkan, som har stått modell for meg en god del ganger tidligere.

For å se tidligere innleveringer til kurset søk på Farge og Estetikk øverst i høyre hjørne.

Egentlig tenkte jeg å bruke to fra forsvaret i min politiske brosjyre-serie, men idéen hadde ingen positiv vinkling så det ble til at jeg prøvde ut litt av hvert for å se hva som kunne passe til et eventuelt senere fotoopptak. Hvis alt går etter planen skal jeg bli med på øvelse med forsvaret en kveld i neste uke.

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, Modell: William Haugan

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, Modell: William Haugan

William Haugan trener Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) på Trondheim Fight Gym (TFG) i godt ett år, samt også trent litt med meg på Trondheim Kickboxing Klubb i nettopp Trondheim i fire år.