Classic Portraiture

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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