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Flash on Location

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Flash… a-ah…Savior of the Universe…Flash…He save everyone of us

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Tomorrow our project on using flash on location is due. The assignment was pretty open, it needed to be taken in horizontal format, and have a person or a group of people in it. As inspiration, the teacher showed us a whole bunch of David Lachapelle photos. I immediately decided I wanted something pink in my photo, and an old library-esque location. So I asked around to see if anyone knew of a good place, and through a few people I found out that  Tone Constanze Ek Andreassen had used a location that matched my description perfectly, and she was lovely enough to let me know where it was. So I took the trip to Bybroen Antikvariat and asked the owner for permission, which I got no problem.

I then went out and bought lots of pink apparel, booked a stylist (Alexandra), and got hold of two models (Marie Folstad who I used for Classic Portrait, and Marte Øverby Tennøe who Bjørn Tore used for his Classic Portrait). I also got Bjørn Tore along as an assistant, and chauffeur which turned out to be very helpful as I left 2 of the flashes at home… :S

We left school early to get hold of some “geek glasses” from Sudi, and to get set up at the location. Models arrived at 16:15, got their hair and makeup done and got them dressed for the part.

In the image, I used an SB-900 flash at about 45/45 to camera right, through a softbox, an SB-800 on camera as master as well as a very weak ceiling bounce, and to camera left another SB-900 with no modifier as an edgelight/hairlight, shot through the bookshelf thanks to Bjørn Tore holding it in place (there were very steep stairs on the other side). 19:00 we packed up as the shop was closing and we didn’t want to intrude too much on the lovely man that owned the place (though he seemed to be ok with us staying longer).

With a small touch of retouching, less than I would have imagined at first… I got this result, which I am fairly happy with.

Classic Portraiture

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As I mentioned yesterday, Bjørn and myself had a photoshoot at school, with 3 models, 2 stylists, 1 assistant and ourselves. It’s for an assignment we have been given which is to use the medium-format analogue cameras at school to take two classic portraits. In essence that means that the main light is a Rembrandt light, meaning that its 45 degrees off-axis between the camera and the model, and 45 degrees up (as in it points down…).Its also supposed to be either high-key or low-key style to the images.

Today, I developed the film, something that took considerably less time than I thought it would… put the film on the spool in the dark in a matter of a minute max, last time I think I spent a good 10 minutes in there fumbling about. I was nervous as heck while working with the chemicals… not because of the chemicals, I could care less about that, but because if I messed up, the images would be fucked and most of yesterdays work down the drain. But the negatives turned out to be great, a bit of dust/scratches… but great besides that  (and a couple of blown highlights…)

I’ll post the images that I have worked on here as they are readied…still a few to work on…

First model is Marie Folstad, one of the two twins that we had in, the other model is Tone Kvaale Jordal. Also included a behind the scenes shot of Marie having her makeup touched up by the fantastic Tina Larsen from H2 Akademiet.

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