Liv-Miriam Nordtømme and Bjørn Christiansen, photo: Vegard T. Blakstad

After work today I drove with my boss to Kristiansten Festning and met Liv-Miriam Nordtømme, the author of fysionett.blogg.no. Here we did a photo shoot and a recording of some video clips Liv-Miriam is going to use on her blog demonstrating simple and easy home exercises. Vegard Blakstad, my boss, and the photographer behind this image served as assistant during the shot handing me the lenses and made ​​sure that the light was perfectly reflected on the face of Liv-Miriam. Photos and film from the recording comes during the week.
As you can see in the image of Liv-Miriam and me, so I use my tripod shoulder rig in order to stabilize the images as much as possible. It’s better than to shoot only handheld. Canon 5D MkII, I borrowed from my tenant, Charlotte Støle, who is also a photographer.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Charlotte Svee Hestnes

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Charlotte Svee Hestnes

Two pictures I shot of Charlotte Svee Hestnes, a Frøken Norge 2011 contestant. The series was shot in early May 2011. Assistant on the shoot wasIngrid Nymoen.

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Charlotte Svee Hestnes

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Charlotte Svee Hestnes

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Charlotte Svee Hestnes

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Charlotte Svee Hestnes

Friday afternoon I shot a portrait series of the Frøken Norge candidate Charlotte Svee Hestnes in studio. With me in studio I had my apprentice for two weeks, Ingrid Nymoen from Røros VGS, who is helping me out carrying photo gear and setting up lights.

If you want to help out Charlotte in her competition, please send an SMS from a Norwegian cellphone “stem FN34 to 2105” :)

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Truls Svendsen (Plan-B)

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Truls Svendsen (Plan-B)

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Truls Svendsen (Plan-B)

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Truls Svendsen (Plan-B)

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Truls Svendsen (Plan-B)

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Truls Svendsen (Plan-B)

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Truls Svendsen (Plan-B)

Thursday we had evaluation of our Magazine Portraits that we did on celebrities in Norway. I did mine on Truls Svendsen from Plan-B Management, better know as a television-celebrity such as Senkveld (TV2) and Kroppen (NRK).

Assistant during this photo shoot was Christian Toverud from Bilder Nordic School of Photography

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Truls Svendsen (Plan-B)

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Truls Svendsen (Plan-B)

Last week I were in Oslo photographing a magazine portrait for my assignment at Norsk Fotofagskole of Truls Svendsen known in Norway for his early days as a stunt reporter for Senkveld with Thomas and Harald and “Svendsen om Hansen og Jensen” at TV2, the enlightenment show “Kroppen”, “E6″ at NRK. Hosting Gullfisken, a commercial award he is best know for his dance stunt shaking his booty to Beyoncé’s Single Ladies. Another famous stunt he did during Senkveld was drinking a bit too much Martini at a James Bond-premiere. Videos can be watched in the end of this post.

So what was my ideas and thoughts behind my portrait-series of this crazy, fun celebrity? Since he is best know for his stunts and human shows I wanted to portrait Truls as more serious guy and not letting him play the comedian-role and take the easy way out dressing him up in a black body or giving him Dry Martini. Some of the inspiration for my photos is directly from male fashion and Anton Corbijns series of Magnus Carlsen (The Chess player) for G-Star Raw using the urban environment at Grünerløkka as a clean backdrop.

The first portrait I took was up in Thorvald Meyers-gate in a backyard close to Seven-Eleven and the second portrait was taken at Internasjonalen.