photo:Bjørn Christiansen, Home Guard

This is the second picture in my series that I shot yesterday of the home guard (heimeværnet) out on Ladehammeren in Trondheim. I was hoping that the photo shoot would be at around 3 p.m. that afternoon so I didn’t have to struggle with keeping the ambient lighting low and full power on my flash heads, but the grunts had their leave for the weekend at that hour. The shoot were taking place at half past twelve that afternoon, the ambient light was about f/8.0 at 1/125s and ISO200. So what I did was fire off the flash at f/11.5 to lower the ambient light and further more lower it in post production. The reason was that I wanted the picture to look a bit like a nighttime operation with the soldiers lurking around an industrial area. Hope you like the result.

Now I’m cleaning my lenses, formatting my memory cards and charging my batteries, making myself ready for tonights first photo shoot for Hipster.no at Vega. I got my press pass and my cards that I am going to give away to my fortunate models. Have a nice weekend!

photo:Bjørn Christiansen, Home Guard

Today I had a photo shoot with four soldiers from the Home Guard, stationed at Værnes. This is one of a quite a few pictures I shot of the very cooperative lads. Suddenly at my location there were this big horn-shape sculpture that NTNU had placed there, why get irritated when you can use it for what it’s worth. I organized my four grunts at the opening, lit them with a Elinchrom Quadra from behind and two SB-900 as a sandwich in front. It was a cold photo shoot and I believe my assistant photographer Jon Danielsen shot some behind scenes and video that will be published soon.
This photo shoot was originally the main plan of attack if yesterdays shoot failed. It’s not everyday I have such fine soldiers at my disposal so I skipped a meeting at school and did this photo shoot instead, with the blessing of Roar Øhlander, the headmaster of our school.
As you may have guessed there will be more parts in this series. I came home from the shoot about one and a half hour ago so I haven’t been able to look at and select more photos for post production, yet.

Feel safe with this guys guarding your door when the enemy is close?

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Zeleste Vejle, makeup artist: Line Sofie Steinfinsbø

Except lacing of dramaturgy between the mirror and the environment, the photo was accepted and no need to re-shoot it.

The next assignment is a group portrait of workers in action. It is to be glossy, commercial with a lot of energy. I just received the task and is still in figuring out what to do. If anybody has some ideas for me, they are very welcome to share them.

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Zeleste Vejle, makeup artist: Line Sofie Steinfinsbø

It’s early morning and I don’t know how many of you guys read blogs at this time of day, but I’ll publish a photo that didn’t make the selection for evaluation. It’s the second best in the series I shot yesterday of Zeleste Vejle as a mixture of fashion, retro and straight portrait. The assignment was photograph a portrait of a persons reflection. Makeup artist is Line Sofie Steinfinsbø.

Now I have to run to school for evaluatio!.

foto: Bjørn Christiansen, model: Zeleste Vejle, makeup artist: Line Sofie Steinfinsbø

This is my second assignment of the photo marathon that we are having at school. This time the task was to photograph a portrait of a person, easy you may say. The boundaries were that we couldn’t point the camera directly at the person, but at the persons reflection. It was supposed to have a melancholic mood and maybe fit in a magazine for psychological health care. I approached the assignment with a naive point of view wanting to use the bus and the reflections of travelers, or a rear view mirror of the car. I didn’t do either. I called up the makeup artistLine Sofie Steinfinsbø, who I have been working with on the past fashion photo shoots, asking her to come over to put some hard looking makeup on Zeleste Vejle. The idea was to give my photo a classical film noir-look with a hint of fashion.

The location of the photo shoot was situated right outside my door and I used three flashes to light the model. One directly at her face, one from the rear of the model giving her a definition on the back and the last one as a trigger-flash on the camera.

I’ll post the photo tomorrow after evaluation.