making of melancholia

A few people have asked me how I made this photo, and here is a rough and quick speed through of my processing.

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windy city

Today, I had a visit from someone I have never before photographed, and originally, the plan was to get good studio shots and blend them with my HDR backgrounds. However, after a while I got impatient (which had nothing to do with the model, who did a great job). We got some good shots, and then it came to me that I wanted to move into the nature. I did not expect close to stormy conditions outside, but brought a studio light - and the plan was...nothing - play by air.
We walked five minutes from my house, and discovered a hidden gem, a cluster of trees. My light crashed into the ground a couple of times, but survived! And I think it was worth it, as an idea from a couple of movies directed by Lars von Trier came to mind: Melancholia and Antichrist. These films have some fascinating filming, and visual effects, and I wanted to try to create that same sentiment.
Here are some examples, and thanks to the patient model Kristine!
By the way, please watch those movies:-)

All images copyrighted by John Andre Aasen // www.phokus.no

powerportraits - "nye" veier med portretter

Inspirert av eksempelvis Joel Grimes, har jeg forsøkt å tilnærme meg en stil på portretter som, om ikke annet tilfører ny kunnskap og en ny dimensjon i variasjoner jeg kan utvikle. Jeg innser at jeg har et stykke igjen, da dette er relativt krevende å lære seg ordentlig, men det er spennende og veldig lærerikt å utvikle nye teknikker innen fotografi og etterarbeidet. Learning by doing er herlig! Så får vi se hva det kan by på av resultater etterhvert.

Her er noen eksempler så langt...

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Making of "...come with me..."

I was playing around with screen recording last night (yes, night) and couldn't stop until I at least had made one video. Here is what I came up with, a high speed run through of the post-processing from one of my last jobs.

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grace & blaze

I attended a trend show in Trondheim recently (by Wella), and had a chance to capture some of the models when they were finished on stage. The location was a hotel, and I knew there would be virtually no time for each model. Finally, I found a room (not the biggest I have been in) and set up my "microstudio" with three lights.

Afterwards, I realized I had to come up with something more interesting than the pure white/grey background and racked my brain to find some kind of theme for this. The header for these coming trends are "grace & blaze", so I thought why not experiment around those words...and this is what came to life (with some help from editing tools:-)).

turned into

turned into

More from this series at www.phokus.no

Hair: Lene Larsgaard Bjørnland / Renate Robertsen

Make-up: Hege Regine Lunnan

Photo & retouch: John Andre Aasen // www.phokus.no

Landskonkurranse 2012 - resultater

Resultatene fra Norges Fotografforbund sin landskonkurranse 2012 ble offentliggjort i går kveld, og jeg kom på 7. plass. Det var 211 deltakere i konkurransen, som tilsammen har levert 814 arbeider.

Mine bilder fikk følgende poeng:

"Escape" 84 p - BRONSE
"Butterfly" 75 p - H.O.
"Reunion" 73 p - H.O.
"Immature" 71 p - H.O.
Totalt 303 poeng

Bildene er vist i et tidligere innlegg, men her er en samling

Årets bilde Laugskonkurransen

Under premieutdeling forrige uke kom det frem at mitt bilde "Immature" karret til seg 92 poeng, og dermed en sølvmedalje og beste bilde 2011. Fornøyd med det selvsagt, og bare 1 poeng totalt skilte meg fra sammenlagtseier.