Sort hvitt er så vakkert!

Sort hvitt bilder er klassisk og bare kjempe lekkert. 

Ikke bare det men noen ganger er det nesten som om portrettet får WOW faktor ved å bli omgjort til sort-hvitt. 

To you photographers out there - I generally use lightroom for black and white conversion due to its many presets and great high contrasts black and white. 

Sneak Preview - Autumn Shoot

Today I had a shoot with a local model Linn Cecilie Fosse. We just used the local surroundings and the autumn colors to inspire us.

Here is a sneak peak at one of the pictures from today:

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Party Invite and other graphic design

I am not a graphic designer, but for my day job I do a little as well as photography.

The first flyer is for a yacht party - VIP invitation.

The other flyer is for our Engineering Graduate Program. The amazing thing about it is that the staff has taken so much ownership to it. It lays around everywhere and they show clients and others and really have taken ownershit to them :)

Love it, especially cause I took all the pics too :)

Honesty and Photography

Yesterday I went out to this photography meetup, and typically I ended up with speaking with two photographers that just happend to be there, actually not part of the group I went to meet up with.

We got to talking and they were documentary photographers planning a trip to New York City to take photos of a protest where most of the people were homeless.

They said that they dont edit their photos at all. Only thing they would do is convert to black and white in some instances.

I questioned that - because sometimes there is a piece of rubbish or something that just totally distracts from the actual subject. They said no, that would be lying. But then I asked, you just beeing there, interacting with the person does that not lead to you manipulating the situation?

I brought up this photo below. It was taken with a Canon 400D with the kit lens. So yeah - the real basics - nothing fancy. And I was in a taxi that was driving through Mumbai. He said that I should have stopped the taxi, get out to get the shot.

I said that odds are that this man sitting here, with a look in his eyes that all hope is gone, would have looked up, and the honesty of the moment would be gone. I would have changed the situation. The man behind who is obviously heading for a pee on the wall there in the corner would have stopped and looked. And the subject himself would have changed. It just would.

So sometimes the honesty lies in taking a "bad picture" from a taxi, -- in my opinion anyways...

Wow thats a lot of pins for my autumn fashion board

Its quite amazing, I have almost 400 pins on pintrest of my autmn fashion board on pintrest. I think its all about the jacket.

That wonderful

Belstaff Triumph leather jacket

If I only had an extra
 8.515 NOK ($1,525) - net-a-porter.com

:(

Perhaps they will send it my way due to all the interest on pintrest???  Ahhh a girl can dream can't she ?

Food Poisoning in India?

When I visited Mexico in 1998 I didn't eat any Mexican food. As I was an exchange student and my host family strongly discouraged it I abstained from eating any. I still regret it.

Since then I have travelled far and wide and have eaten at places where dirt passes as the restaurant floor and other guests are chooks and stary dogs. And you know what, in my experience those are the places where the food is the best. My best travel advise is that you eat where the locals eat. If its crowded with locals give it a go.

You may think that I have a tough stomach that can take it, or that I have just been lucky, but that's not the case. The ultimate test, the place where everyone gets sick, - India - I didn't. Nope I actually gained 5 kg! No wonder, because Indian food is really quite fattening. Just look at this guy pooring Ghee into the cooking pot. But to all of you out there thinking of travelling to India, please do the same. Indulge in all the wornderful food sold on the streets, on corner cafes, and just do as I did, limit your amount of indian kingfisher beer - as a fellow traveller told me - you drink too much of it you will end up with a sick stomach! ( something in it that makes you sick- and I actually talked to some travellers about this - they were so curious as to how one had gotten "food poisoning" whereas the other didnt, - I asked did you have a few kingfiher beer that day, and he affirmed.

So the most valuable advise - listen to seasoned travellers- they can give great advice of do's and don't.

 This picture is taken in a small town called Bundi where Kipling was inspired to write Kim. Its a beautiful city with watercolored buildings in the middle of nowhere quite off the beaten tourist trails... 

Dreaming of the tropics

Now that fall is kicking in I start longing for warmer weather. This picture taken a few years ago really remind me of the everlasting summers of the Tropics. Its taken at Vue, on Trinity Beach, near Cairns Australia. Nikita Collie is a local model and this picture was taken just after her Senior Prom. Styling was done by the very talented https://www.facebook.com/tokunaihair

To all my friends and known ones in Cairns, - miss you all and I hope you are well!

Cleaning up the junk

Sometimes you just can not get the location you want, or the angle you want and you just have to make do with what you have because of various reasons.

Here is a shoot that was done during a rainy day. Went down in the apartment garage as it was dry, but as you can see there was plenty of cars parked there.

To me these cars are too distracting so I think its better to remove all that.

I simply did this by covering them with dark paint in photoshop.

What do you think of the before and after? Do you agree with me ? 

Posing Tutorial

Just thought I would publish a quick posing tutorial for you guys. This is a picture my mom took when she was visiting me in Cairns, Australia, last year.

We was going through some tips and tricks with her in regards to photographing people. She is a great photographer but she prefers street photography and landscape to this type of "staged" photographs. And yes, I was the teacher and the model... It probably would have been better if we had a proper model, but on a lazy, rainy afternoon, well, you do with what you have...

She did a fantastic job, but here is a few things that would have made the picture more flattering.

Indian Photoshoot

 A few years back I travelled to India for a one month adventure.

Whilst I was there I took a whole lot of photos of the Taj Mahal, streetlife of Mumbai and other touristy snaps.

The beautiful thing about India is the people. I met so many amazingly nice people there, and when I think about India a warm feeling fills my heart. There were so many moments of kindness towards me !

Some I met and just had casual conversations, others became friends. One of the latter ones were Anuj Bhalla whom I met in an airport in Udaipur. A striking businessman who was on his way home to Delhi.

When he found out I was a photographer he asked if I could take some pictures of him, - and I was delighted to.

Here are some of the shots I took of him. They are all taken on a beach in Goa.

I really hope that I can keep doing this when I travel - photograph people.

My next trip is Mainz, Germany. not far from Frankfurt.

Hopefully there is someone there that would like me to work my “magic” on them :) 

Spaghetti sushi!!

So Geremy was cooking sushi the other night and as usual he some leftovers.

Using the leftovers he cooked me lunch today - the only prob - he ran out of rice!

He ducked into the fridge again and found some spaghetti and wacked it into the last roll of sushi!!!

I thought it would taste disgusting but frankly it wasn't that bad... Strange texture though

And now my hubby is coming up w excuses :
It's easier to cook spaghetti than rice
It's faster
Easier to roll

I'll call it;

Spagghetishi , sughetti,

Ok Mr Krause , I dunnnnnnnooo

My first DIY project - dresser

This room used to be the master bedroom but Geremy and I have decided to make it our home office.

The first thing IM gonna do is to glam up this dresser-

notice the floor-

Check Out that slope!!!

So yeah I won't be moving it.

First step will be a quick sanding !

Here is the results! Me with glue ;)

I will take some proper pics a day when I have som daylight !!

The knots were a steal at ikea for 9 kr a six pack and the bling I glued on with superglue! I bought the bling at a hobby store a huge bag for 250kr.

Engineering Graduate Program Graphic Design Work

Selv om min store hobby er det å ta bilder så er det ikke noe jeg kunne tenkte meg å gjøre 24/7. Det er en lidenskap og jeg vil helst la det forbli det.

Så til daglig jobber jeg som Kontrakts Leder hos Sub Sea Services, men i tillegg til min kontrakt rolle så driver jeg og med Business Development og Image Creation.

Nå som vi er i sterk vekst er vi på jakt etter flere nyutdannede ingeniører og derfor designet jeg, - og tok bildene til, denne brosjyren.  

For å finne ut mer om Sub Sea Services gå til www.subseaservices.no 

CoCo Puffs!!

This is CoCo :)

This is our little baby- and it's amazing how much personality fit into that little creature!

She talks back when she thinks I am being unfair, and she sits in the livingroom windowsill like a cat -

Well she's actually smaller than most cats so why not I guess :)

Choosing the right hue when editing pictures

One of the scariest and most difficult jobs you have as a photographer is actually choosing the pictures. You have to try to find out what the person you have photographed will love, not necessarily what you love.

Perfect example is the photos you love compared to which your mom love of you. Well, perhaps your mom is not like mine, but my mom always seem to like the photos of me that I look fat, ugly and tired on! NEVER fails!  

So as a photographer I try to, you know, NOT be my mom.  I try to find pictures that I think my clients will love and that sometimes leads to me giving/showing my client pictures that actually have some big faults... 

Take this picture for example. It was taken with only natural light. It looked great on the camera screen, but when I got it on my computer it turned out that the area on the shoulder had too much light on it. 

So I had to edit it, and change the color a bit to try and compensate. 

Here I have done 4 different edits. 

I love the black and white but I also like the softness of the colored one, and gosh her eyes stand out in the last two. 

But you have to choose one picture to give to the client. 

Which one would you choose ? 

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Det snør, det snør, tiddelibom!

Huff nå er jammen vinteren på anmarsj. Hørte da jeg kjørte hjem fra jobben at det snør både her og der!

Hallo, vi hadde jo ikke sommer engang!!!

Ikke det at jeg har noe i mot snø, det er mer kulden og slapset jeg har noe i mot...

Her er et bilde fra mange mange år siden. Nærmere bestemt vinteren 2003.


Bodde i Australia da og tok dette bilde til minne om den utrolig kjekke følelsen jeg får når jeg er den som tar de første stegene i nysnøen ! 

Takkekort- bryllup

Fikk takkekortene som jeg designet for en bryllupsfotograferingskunde. Er meget fornøyd med printen -

Høyglans forhindrer nattesøvn

Hva tenker du på når du ikke klarer sove om kvelden?

Mine tanker flyr over mye rart men mest av alt tenker jeg på alt jeg skulle ha gjort!

For eksempel male gulvet høyglans hvitt- eneste problemet er at jeg ikke finner noen som selger gul maling i høyglans /

Hva skal jeg gjøre? Noen tips det ute på www?

Wedding Book

Sitter her og redigerer bilder fra bryllupet mitt. Det er en stor jobb med hundrevis av bra bilder.

Boken skal jeg printe på www.Blurb.com  Det er uten tvil en printer til å anbefale - bra pris til ekstremt bra kvalitet!

Fant dette koselige bildet av meg og venninnen/fotografen min Theresia Pauls som jeg tenkte jeg skulle dele med dere!

Sharing someone's special day

I was going through my lightroom archive today and found this old photo. Its from one of the first weddings I shot. And it was one of those beautiful, perfect weddings. Planned and executed and just perfected. Seeing that old photograph made me think...

There is something amazing about being a wedding photographer... To be honest the thought of shooting a wedding kinda made me want to hurl and I thanked no to any wedding photography jobs.

But then something changed. Perhaps it was meeting my husband... Perhaps it was the first wedding I shot.

Tears were swelling up in my eyes as I realized I was there on a very important mission on their really really special day. Their wedding day... I quickly realised I had to dry my tears and start focusing, because teary eyed photographers never get anything in focus ! Because you can't screw up on someones wedding day!

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The couch that got away

Since a little girl I have always found beauty in things that others may look at as, well, garbage... I used to go to a local tip and find little treasures. Unsurprisingly, my parents didn't approve. Perhaps this is why my dad only told me about this antiques auction the day AFTER it had happened. 

And curious as ever, I went onto their website to see if I had missed something (or hoping that I hadn't) but now I am sad to say that I did because I saw the perfect couch - ok, it wasn't perfect, but with a couple of layers of white high gloss paint, it would have been PERFECT!!! 

Ohhhh DAD!!!! 

Unfortunately the couch wasn't the only thing I fell in love with. There was this cute little old telephone bench and some fun funky coloured chairs that would be totally awesome with a little bit of DIY action... 

And they were a steal! :( 

Please DAD !!! Next time! Let me know!!!

Photos are from:

http://www.antik.no/index.cfm?tmpl=butikk&a=list&b_kid=1032429  

Steve Jobs Passed away last night. What a tragic loss. He was a visionary and very inspiring to me.

Rest in peace. 

OKTOBER SPESIAL 

Boudoir fotografering i Stavanger. Føl deg glamorøs, avslappet og vakker.

Fotografering i hjemme studio, hvor du kan føle deg avslappet og tatt vare på. Styling tilbys også.

Jeg deler aldri bilder uten din tillatelse.  Bildene blir redigert til den grad du ønsker det.

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