A few weeks ago I photographed these images of Norway’s hopes in the Miss Earth contest (2011), Marion Dyrvik Homlong. I actually had other plans in terms of style, but since we were a little late out of the makeup chair that evening we had lost most of the light. We ran a lap around to find alternative locations, improvisation might work sometimes, not this time. Most were shot at well over ISO 4000, hence the grainy images. I also photographed the handheld so it was the Nikon D700 is really on trial.
Today I had some spare time at the school I am photographing, to be precise, 2 hours. After eating lunch, reading various online newspapers, taking the extra pictures to school and read your papers again, I connected my mouse to the laptop, which we use as a capture device when we photograph the students, and used it as a remote trigger to the camera. There is a reason that I feel comfortable behind the camera than in front. The portraits I am photographing comes out way better than this one.
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).
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.
modell: Kristine Hove Røsok
makeup og hår: Trine Sletvold
Her er første “skikkelige” del fra fashion-opptaket jeg hadde med Kristine Hove Røsok, fra Ã…lesund, i studio pÃ¥ Norsk Fotofagskole. HÃ¥r og sminke er gjort av Trine Sletvold som ogsÃ¥ er en student ved skolen. Stylinga er litt inspirert av en bildeserie Emily Wake jeg sÃ¥ for litt siden pÃ¥ Fashionising.com. Bildene er ikke tatt i forbindelse med noe spesielt bortsett fra at jeg liker Ã¥ fotografere fashionbilder og behøver trening i det.
Billig og avansert vindmaskin
Det siste bildet i denne posten har litt spill i hÃ¥ret og man lurer kanskje litt pÃ¥ om jeg bruker en vindmaskin til flere tusen kroner. Neppe, har ikke rÃ¥d til noe sÃ¥nt i øyeblikket. Det jeg har gjort er Ã¥ be Trine ta frem min lille reflektor (ca 80cm), jeg vant for en tid tilbake, og bruke den som vifte. Man mÃ¥ synkronisere viftet bÃ¥de med modellen og selve vifteren om det skal bli noe særlig. Retning pÃ¥ “vinden” som produseres spiller ogsÃ¥ en liten rolle. Om man ønsker litt liv i hÃ¥ret, men jobber i studio eller pÃ¥ en vindstille location, be makeupartisten, assistenten eller en tilfeldig forbipasserende om Ã¥ være vindmaskin for deg. Desto større reflektor og større assistent, desto kraftigere blir vinden. Andre bilder jeg har brukt en slik avansert vindmaskin pÃ¥ er en serie av Kristina Steinset jeg fotograferte for ca to Ã¥r siden.
Hi and welcome to my blog / portfolio. My name is Bjørn Christiansen I am a 28 year old photographer in Trondheim who has recently graduated from Norsk Fotofagskole. I mostly shoot fashion- and commercial-related photos, but I also do a lot of portrait. Hope you enjoy my work!
