Depressed

I'm sad, what happened to my karma? My last two jobs will not be used for reasons I can't say. What I do know is that it is not because of what I delivered. But politics within a large company can be a bit of a challenge sometimes. The sad thing is that I'm really happy with both jobs with one of them being one of the best works I've ever made. I would love to see it published. I'll probably be able to publish it on this blog as long as I remove all info about the client and such but it still sucks. My work means very much to me and if I could choose to have these jobs published and not get paid instead of getting paid without having it published the choice is too easy. I would be a poor photographer with images all across town any day.

Agrodata Portraits

These are some of the images I took recently for Agrodata with Making Waves. They will be used as ads, on their webpage and whenever they are promoting their company in some way. Most of my work consists of lots of lights, lots of retouching etc. so it's quite a challenge to photograph with nothing but the camera. In some ways I think it is much harder actually.

post-postproduction

I'm stuck at the mac. As always.
I wonder what the analog photographers do during working hours, they have to have an immense amount of spare time. I wish my machine had some kind of clock to count how many hours it has been used during 2009. Still a couple of hundred hours of work on it before it's christmas. Finished three jobs at the moment with the one for Ernö being quite the time-consumer. I do think it will turn out nice though and then it's worth all the hours. Easily.
I changed the header on my blog today, felt it represents the blog better than the black and white nature picture that was up there before.

Untitled Sunday

I've had a very nice weekend, thanksgiving dinner on friday with classmates from Norsk Fotofagskole, it's a couple of years between each time we see each other so that was very nice. I have managed to take some time off as well so that my body could rest a bit but I didn't manage to stay away from the studio the entire weekend. So now I'm sitting at my office working a bit, doing some paperwork, paying a whole lot of bills, sorting out the pictures from my latest jobs etc. etc.
Heading home in a bit just wanted to publish another DFDS picture, this was featured as a doublepage ad in A-magasinet on friday.

Tiiiired

The shoot is finished. People are happy. I am tired. Weekend. Yeah.

Farmers

Went on another trip today shooting farmers for Making Waves. Brought my friend Marius with me as an assistant even though all he did was filming and driving. Still though, more fun with two than traveling alone. After a full day shooting we spent a couple of hours setting up the lights for tomorrows shoot. Just a bit renaming and backing up of my files now before I head home. I have a very challenging shoot ahead of me tomorrow, can't wait.

There is a new dog in town

his name is Walter and he is the meanest, scariest dog you've ever met. He is 8 weeks old and is already settling in in the studio. About time we got a dog to watch our and our equipments back.

Sicko

I've been laying in bed with fever and headache since sunday and I should probably have taken it easy a couple of more days as well. One should think that when working on your own it's no problem to be ill, it's so the opposite. On average I've probably sent 30 mails and taking 15 phonecalls each day and today I've been in the studio working, hopefully I'll stay healthy for a week or so so I can finish all the ongoing projects.

I'll be heading down southeast tomorrow shooting more portraits for Agrodata and then I'll have a big shoot with Ernö on friday.

Here is another image from the DFDS campaign.

DFDS

This is the first out of the 8 ads I did together with Suddenly Oslo for DFDS. My assistant sneaked around with a camera as well that day and I've put together some behind the scenes footage. The music is made by my dad's favorite ensemble, Kraftwerk.

Behind The Scenes - DFDS from Espen Nersveen on Vimeo.

More Work

Jeez, I feel like I have been working 12 hours a day since the very beginning of September. It's been just totally insane amount of work. Shooting, doing pre-production, meetings, booking models etc. at daytime and doing photoshop work after normal working hours and out into the late evening. It feels great though, to be so busy, I guess I'm doing something right. After a really difficult shoot for Ruter and another film today for Hansen & Dysvik with all the complications involved with having the camera attached to the roof it seemed as if the next weeks would be easier, but nooo. Got assigned to another big and complicated shoot today with Ernö. The results can be very nice if I manage to work my magic. ;-)
Tomorrow I'll head out southwest for another shoot with Making Waves before I take an early weekend on friday.

Cheers

Merry

Christmas in the studio, I'll be shooting a new commercial film for
Hansen & Dysvik today.

Terra

I did some pictures with Schjærven ad agency for Terra in September. Now the images are out and here they are.

Huuuge picture

I've been sitting for a couple of days(including sunday) with this huuuuuge picture I'm making for Ruter. It consists of 142 layers including adjustment layers and the file is 4,2 gigabyte. It's by far my most comprehensive photoshop-image and I can't wait to show it and publish a Making Of movie showing all the steps. I'm really pleased with the result and hopefully the client likes it as well. But now I'm rather tired so I'm heading home before continuing tomorrow morning.

Shooting sunset

I'm shooting the sunset for the picture to be taken tomorrow. Crazy
beautiful.

håårs

Had a lovely day down in Vestfold today, shooting portraits and more for Agrodata with Making Waves. At least two more days with the same recipe at different locations. Probably next week. So now I can concentrate on the image I'll be doing for Ruter and all the details that need to be shot for the composite to work. I'm feeling the pressure, have I got the skillz to pull it off?

Shitloads of work

In addition to 3 days of shooting with Making Waves, 8 pictures to be finished for DFDS, pre-production for another Hansen & Dysvik film to be shot next week I also got a job for Ruter with a loooot of pre and post-production. So I'll be living in the studio for the next two to three weeks. Take care.

Photographer of Friday #1

Inspired by the great guys over at WORK I'll start a weekly tradition presenting work from some of my favorite photographers each friday. Starting off with the highly talented Dimitri Daniloff working out of Paris. You can also check out a interesting interview with him at F-Stop.

Here are some of my favorites.

Flust.no

I got assigned by Toxic to shoot some still images for them to use in two commercials for Flust.no. Here they are.

Flust.no - #1 from Espen Nersveen on Vimeo.

Flust.no - #2 from Espen Nersveen on Vimeo.

DFDS

Had a rather hectic shoot today with 5 adult models, 5 kids, 5 parents/clients, 1 art director, 1 stylist, 1 assistant and myself.
A lot of people involved but a very funny day indeed, the results turned out pretty great as well. Have some interesting details that need to be solved in photoshop but hopefully I'll manage.

Got assigned to another job today that has been in the making for a couple of months almost. Will be shooting a bunch of portraits with Making Waves.
The christmas-themed film for Hansen & Dysvik with Los & Co finally got settled as well so that will cover up my next two weeks with work.

Todays rather simple set-up.

http://www.heiaespen.com - videos

The superb guys over at Upstruct has incorporated videos from Vimeo so that they can be featured on my website. I'm very happy with the result. Check it out.

Canon 1d mkIV

I'm shooting some images with Los & Co for Hurtigruta today. But who cares, what amazed me today was this brand new video shot with the brand new Canon camera not even released. The entire film was shot on iso6400 and no external lighting was used. It's insane. No noise. Jeeez.

Nocturne from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

Fooooood

I'm attending a 3-day food course and it is extremely cool. Effective
but attentive to details, learning a whole lot.

The pig is back, in todays D2.

CanCam

I got assigned to a new job today, will be shooting for DFDS with Suddenly Oslo next week. I have another interesting job in the waiting as well, hopefully I'll be able to do it.

Bought the new Canon G11 a couple of days ago, I haven't had a decent compact in years and with this I'll always have a camera with me, the files look promising as well.

Elephant

UPDATED:
Got some nice feedback about the shadows beneath the elephant, I have now worked with that so the elements feel more attached to the ground and less floating. Here is the updated image. Better?




I have created another image with an animal that follow the trend I started with the horse. The goal is to create 6 images in this, can I call it a series? This time I came across an elephant residing somewhere in Telemark.

Here is the final image, the original images and the Making Of video.

Making Of - Elephant from Espen Nersveen on Vimeo.

All over the place

My images are pretty much everywhere as far as I can tell. Looks good too I think. I'm happy.

Ventelo Boards

These are the ads I did for Ventelo with Grey. The wireframe and the robothead is made by SuperRune. These images will be on adshells, boards, at airports and in newspapers/magazines.
So hopefully you'll spot them on your way.

Behind The Scenes - Ventelo Launch Campaign

Ventelo this and Ventelo that

Ventelo has been relaunched and I've done all their pictures. 20-something portraits of the employees of the company and 5 ads to be shown all over the country. Here are 6 of the portraits that I took for them. The ads will be posted as soon as I get them from the agency.

Ventelo

Doublepage spread in todays DN. Ad for Ventelo.