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Took a picture of a soccer player today, he is playing on a team I can´t stand so I feel somewhat like Judas today. But the picture is not half bad even though I had about 2 minutes with him.

Some of the images from the Triomar campaign I did some time back are now being published. I´ve seen ads in Dagbladet Magasinet and Vg Helg among other newspapers. So then I guess it´s safe to publish it here as well.

So here are three of the five pictures done with DDB Oslo for Møller Collett. The other two will come out once I´ve seen them somewhere.
I´ve copied three pictures together on each of them to get that panorama-effect.

The original pictures as well as how it appears in the ad. I must say I like it much better with some colour but the client probably would have his products stand out some more and that´s why it´s B&W with a brown touch.

Old Snaps

Found some more pictures taken for maybe a year or two ago. I´m a huge fan of snapshots and really adore photographers like Wolfgang Tillmans, Terry Richardson and Juergen Teller among others.
Anyway, heres some more pix.

Street Photography

While surfing the world wide web I came across a really nice Street Photography site. It contains some amazing footage and talented photographers, really inspirational. I used to have a camera with me everywhere, shooting pictures wherever I went, portraits, parties, snapshots, landscapes etc. But after going digital I´ve almost not taken a picture like that for ages, only during special occasions like holidays abroad etc. But now it´s time to pick it up again.

And since this is kind of an official comeback for the snapshot photographer that I started out as I will post some snaps taken during my time. Making it official(oooh) I also put some pressure on me so that I will get my butt out there and photograph.
If you look closely you´ll also see a picture of Bloc Party that I took some years back before most even knew they existed.


Snappies

Backstage

Had a nice shoot yesterday and as I said I´m pretty satisfied. It´s always something that could have been even better but all in all I´m very pleased with the product. Lots of kudos to the great talents that Oil(makeup) and Rahil(hair) posess. And of course the superyoung but very promising Karin(model) from Team.

Some backstage photos, blogexclusives





Taken with my new camera of course, I´ll finally start snapping pictures everywhere. Yeah. I´ll be an original photographer again, not just a fancyshmancylightingstudiorat.

Tiiired

Yay, finally home again. I left for work exactly 16 hours ago.
Did a beautyshoot today and it went great, really happy with the result. Colourful, bright and clean.

And I aquired this camera today, after carrying my SLR with lens and blitz in the bag for four days in Paris I found out that I needed a smaller but still good camera. So I bought a Canon G7 and it seems perfect for its purpose. Can´t wait to try it out some more.

G7



And thanks to Marius for fixing my blog with a new header and stuff. It´s a picture from Østernvann, one of my favourite spots on the planet.

Au Revoir

We´re back from Paris, a city that rocks the socks off most other cities. Had a great time but now I´m tired, been streetwalking on asphalt about 10 km each day. But have been a lot of places and seen lots of things. Today we went to visit the Picasso museum as well as Pompidoo, the home of most of the contemporary art in Paris. A great place, incredible building.

Pompidoo


View from the top of Pompidoo


While walking around town we came across the most superb bookstore I´ve ever visited. The owner was this supercute old guy that had been collection fashionmagazines and books concerning photography since the early ´60ties. He had an incredible amount of fantastic books, could easily spent a day there. Bought a couple of books and magazines. I suggested that he made his books available on the internet on ebay or amazon or something but then he kindly replied that the internet had way to many potential customers, he was so fond of his books that he actually didn´t like to sell them. ;-)

Bookstore


Conclusion: Visit Paris.

Back to work tomorrow, shooting beautypictures.

Piz

Bonjour

Yes, we are in Paris. The city of romance.
It´s been great so far, my feet hurts after walking on concrete for about 10 hours today. Seen lots of the main attractions but also done some shopping and eating. The hotel room is quite nice and the weather was windy but nice. I´ve been to Paris once before but that was long ago so don´t remember to much, it´s fantastic though. Really nice.

The Eiffel Tower and Sacre Ceur


The view over the city from Sacre Ceur


The Louvre and Trine


The Room


For my fellow Sopranos-fans


While walking around town we came across two high-class fashion shoots being done, that was really cool. And what caught my attention was the fact that both shoots had an entire modified bus with them where they did make-up and such, and both photographers had three assistents. Looked real professional and it probably were.

Shoot #1



Shoot #2

And.....

Also a picture done for Natt & Dag. Not too excited about this one actually, but one can´t be supersatisfied everytime ey?
This guy is called Robert Lie and works at Bagatelle, he knows more than most people about wine.

New Pics.

Yeah.
Made dinner at Kai´s with some friends then went to a reunion party with people from my school.
Going to Paris tomorrow, can´t wait. I know it will be superb.
But thought I should post some pictures first, one of the jobs I did recently is now out. It is done with the ad agency TBWA and the shots were done for Xtra Personell. Here they are, whatcha think?

Thanks Grandma

I really and truly appreciate it. A lot. Thank you.

4 days left

Until I go to sleep (almost) next to the Eiffel Tower. Can´t wait. Been a bit lazy this week, that kind of gives me a bad feeling. I feel that I should work all the time to succeed with this profession.
Will be doing another beautyshoot next thursday, if it turns out great we might try to sell it somewhere. Have to get my fashion-portfolio ready so that I can take it around town to all the magazines.

Will be delivering prints to make my third book tomorrow. Heia Espen Vol. I and Heia Espen Vol. II is already in the book-shelf, it´s time for Vol. III. They only exist in one copy each and they all contain 50 pages, with something like 75 pictures in them. In the future I´ll sell them on ebay for millions, when I´m famous that is.



We´ll be living 250 meters from this tower, which ironically was also my nickname growing up

InZane

Concert, one of the best experinces in quite some time. Nouvelle Vague charmed an entire Rockefeller with their fantastic performances and beautiful songs. Loved it. Truly. Seven dots on the dice, easy.

Weekend In The City

Went to John Dee thursday night for a concert with the huge(in numbers) band I´m From Barcelona, which is actually from Skåne in Sweden. It was actually quite nice, 23 people or so on stage and quite the hallelujah mood on quite a few of them. But they have some very nice melodies and cute lyrics.

Two more fans and two of the greatest guys I know. The supertalented Birger and the pride of Elverum, Mr. Simen.



Had a couple of beers with both of them and quite a few others on friday, yesterday I had some beers with someone completely different. Today it´s time for another concert, Nouvelle Vague, the french group doing bossanova covers of my favourite postpunk/newwave tunes. Really looking forward to this one.

Hellu

Well, todays shoot is over. I feel semisatisfied. Marius the model did a great job, I believe I did what I could but the clothes were a bit too "common" for my taste, a bit too everyday and a little too preppy for me but that´s life. Hopefully the magazine will be happy with it, have to retouch them tomorrow.

I´m not feeling to well, hope it´s better tomorrow and it´s not the flu that has caught up with me as well.

Misc.

Had a great weekend up north.

Been rather busy since getting home, landed at Gardemoen late sunday night and was up there again early monday morning to take a picture for Norwegian. Took my parents out for dinner later that evening at Agra, a fantastic Indian restaurant down by the docks.
Today I started out photographing a chef for Hyttemagasinet, retouched it and delivered the shots, then went off to shoot a picture for Natt & Dag. Retouched it and then spent quite some time setting up the lights for tomorrows shoot, but now I´m fairly satisfied. 5 lights are up and running, a couple of screens both white and black has been positioned and the floor is painted. Yeah.

I wanna buy an apartment. And I´m stealing my parents car. Doubleyeah.


P.s. My website is fairly screwed, it bugs me, and it´s not even my fault. Hopefully the guys hosting my site will fix it.

I hate to come up with titles for every post

After being raised in a photoalbumcrazy family I have finally started to make my own personal photoalbum. Even though I´m actually taking pictures for living I tend to suck when it comes to photograph private happenings, but that will of course now change. And I did buy my girlfriend a very nice camera for christmas so she better start to use it as well. I love photoalbums, and thanks mom and dad for documenting my whole life up until a couple of years ago.

Got a couple of shoots lined up next week, will be doing a picture for Norwegian on monday, then a couple of shoots for Hyttemagasinet tuesday and a fashionspread for Mann wednesday. Thursday and friday will be spent retouching and poff, another week has flown by.

Will be flying to Trondheim tomorrow.

Tip of the day

Make sure you don´t wash sweaters made of 100% wool with your other clothing.




Paid bills worth over 40.000 kr within 5 minutes today and I´m only about halfway through the pile. That´s a new record for me, and it sucks.

100

This is my post number 100 at this blog. yeah.
Forgot to put out the pictures of my most known fan, the swedish hipitohop artist.




Bought a trip to Paris for me and my girlfriend, it was supposed to be a Valentinespresent but I didn´t manage to wait that long before giving it to her. Been to France and Paris once before but that was many years ago so really looking forward to the trip. Heading to Trondheim this weekend, although not as exotic I´m really excited for this trip as well.

Bad blogging

I know I´ve been bad at updating this blog for the last couple of weeks. I blame it on being busy and that´s a good thing right?
Shot another ad.campaign last monday and tuesday and retouched them on wednesday. Delivered them thursday and everybody seems happy, myself included. Bought myself a new cellphone, a Sony Ericsson K800i. It seems great and it has quite a good camera on it as well; 3,2 megapixel, autofocus and a blitz.
Been working all weekend at the resort where I work during the weekends, am trying to be permitted from that job until the summer since the business is going rather well I hope to manage without working during the weekends as well.
Will be shooting a mens fashion series within the next couple of weeks, hopefully also a new beautytestshoot. Have to start printing and make my fashionportfolio.
And of course, my blogging will pick up again.

Another fan; Kristoffer at TBWA. The baddest badboy in the bizniz.

No Cell

Headed out thursday night, my good friend Pål had put me on the list and I looked forward to the debut-concert of Monteè. Lots of friends were there and I must admit I might have had a drink or two too much. My cellphone got lost and that sucks, had it in the concealed pocket of my jacket but somehow it found a way out, bastard. Being in the middle of a big production without my cell is not that handy but I guess it will work out.

Went to Rockefeller last night, Serena Maneesh and 120 Days were both playing and even before they entered the stage Apple Falls did a couple of songs. All the gigs were great but the highlight of the night happened during the last song of the night when some extreme nudity suddenly entered stage. Dancing nude in front of a 1000 people has got to create a hangover.

Will be doing three pictures tomorrow and two on tuesday. I really hope everything will run smoothly and that the pictures will be great.

Have a nice week.

´night