Coldplay?

Yes. Coldplay. I know right? Im not going to lie, im not a Coldplay fan in the slightest, admittedly though, and you would be fool to disagree, Chris Martin is one of the musician's out there that gets my respect for actually having a singing voice. The dude can sing like a boss. There new video was partly shot in Cape Town/ SA. I loved the video. Simple concept, beautiful imagery, well edited. Check it out:

Skating...and biking for a change.

I was looking for some thing rad to put up here, and I havent shot any fast moving, exciting stuff in a while, since Ive mainly been shooting portraits, so I rumbled through my library and found some shots I took a while ago, unfortunately there weren't that many I actually liked, so I only edited two, and here they are. 

Almost HDR...

Let me start off by saying this: I do not like HDR photography. I think there are very few occasions when it makes sense and actually looks sensible. Most of the time, it just looks like you've boosted all the sliders up and saturated the shit out of the picture.

I was editing some time-lapse shots i took with my Fisheye and a my 24-70, and i was playing with the colour and tone levels, and all of a sudden I had an HDR disaster. WHY!!!! Absolute crisis. Eventually, I think I found a sensible balance between pleasant to look at and infernally putrid upchuck of HDR.

Anyone remember that campaign they had in the States against Meth? Where the catch-phrase was: "METH, Not even once." I think I should start a campaign against HDR, and the catch-phrase could be: "HDR, Not even as a joke". Same goes for Trance/Psy-Trance music. It will turn you into a blabbering idiot quicker than the psychedelic class-A drugs that are associated with its bare-footed, earth stomping hobbit folk.

Here are some shots. N

Its true.

Some B+W goodness.

Hello. Been a while. Ive been busy which is good. Work. Shooting. Planning. Ive been making slow but steady progress on my "faceboard" project. Ive been lucky enough to have to of my gorgeous friends: Tonje and May-Britt sit and make faces  for me.

Ive changed my lighting setup a little bit. Shooting more of a "studio" setup aimed for balanced, softer and more subtle. Nice for portraiture. But I will save the nerdy/tech stuff for another post.

Im in Haugesund for the weekend with Liz at her parents place. Its their joint 50th birthday party on Saturday night. Should be cool.
SOOOOO amped for S.A.!!!!! These next 6 weeks are just going to fly. I have a couple small jobs lined up. And hopefully I can go out to Gjøa again before the end of my stay in Norway this year. I love that  platform.

So just to give you guys a peek at my progress with the "faceboard" project, here are some shots of Tonje and May-Britt, and a portrait of Liz i shot a while back. Enjoy. N

May-Britt

Tonje

                                

                                                        Liz

R.I.P Steve Jobs

We lost a good one. Steve Jobs died on 6th October 2011. I was pretty bummed out. Not like super-emo, but kinda sad. Im going to see Anthony and The Johnsons live tonight, I will probably think of Steve Jobs.
Pretty stoked to see them, quite an opportunity.

I am a massive Apple fanboy, Iphone, Macbook Pro, Ipod, Ipad, soon to purchase a MacMini or Macbook Air. I hope Apple will not lose track of the good path they have been set on. Im pretty much just waiting in nerd-angst to the announcement of an Apple DSLR.... OMFG!!! How sick would that be?!

Here is a rad image I found on Zack Arias' website from designer Jonathan Mak.

I thought about this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLPxMGxaosI

when I heard about Steve Jobs' death, what an epic song, enjoy.

Base Jumping

Cool!!! For those of you that havent seen my pictures I shot of Jørn, Rickard, and Øystein jumping at Snillfjord (just outside Trondheim) NRK (local tv network) have just posted up an article with Rickard. Pretty sick footage!!!

Here is the link:

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_trondelag/1.7820646
(Use Google Chrome to translate)

And here are my shots for those of you that did'nt see them earlier.

Cheers, N.

Jørn, Rickard and Sean eying out the exit.

       

Rickard with his signature gainer exit.

 

 

Øyvind deploying his pilot. Love this shot.

                                

Insomnia again...

I cant sleep AGAIN! But in spite of my nocturnal state of desperation to find tranquility, i have become inspired to shoot. I want to shoot a "face-board". I drew this idea from a friend I compete against on an image board i cannot mention here.

Basically its like a Z-Card, but just made up of different facial expressions. Ill put up his as an example. I really dig the idea and it could be fun, (pain in the ass to edit, but fun none the less) so i think from tomorrow I will start model hunting. 1 dude, 2 girls i think is reasonable. We'll see how it goes.

Picture courtesy of 5hoe. Thanks.

If i took your picture, please come get it!

So, first and foremost, i have to apologise if i promised to send you pictures in the last two weeks, and haven't, i have been busy. I have been shooting a lot of different stuff lately, portraiture, street, events, time-lapse, and so on. If you are one of the people i have shot pictures of, please e-mail me with who you are, where and when it was, and i will do my best to get them out to you.

In the mean time, here are some shots of the some friends at the quiz I go to every Tuesday. And win every Tuesday.

The ninja on our team.

Marthe and Vivian. Yes Grant, I will sell you this picture.

Shy blonde girl and Pernille.

Frustration...

So... Im home again. Two days later. Dammit! Our project was cancelled due to appalling weather. 9.0m waves, 40kt wind.
But, and this is a massive but, Gjøa is by far the nicest, and most impressive platform i have been on to date. The technology, the safety precautions in place, the living modul would put most hotels to 4 star hotels to shame. And the food - Astounding!!!
 I also found out that Gjøa is the largest non-fixed gas producing vessel in the world. Pretty cool.
So assuming the weather plays part, we should be back out on Monday. Hopefully. Until then, Im on standby, so I cant leave Trondheim... But standby O/T pay aint so bad right?
N

Back to work...

Going back out to work tomorrow for two weeks on Gjøa. Pretty stoked, its a brand new platform that was built in Norway (fairly uncommon) two years ago by Aker. So its going to be all new and clean and shiny! 

The platform looking kinda lonely just floating in the North Sea, interesting fact, this was the first semi-submersible platform in Norway to receive an electricity cable from land, so all the power for the platform is generated onshore thus resulting in less carbon emissions from the vessel. 

This shows the subsea tie-in setup to the Troll ii pipeline via the Vega templates that run to Scotland, where the gas is refined.

Up at 4am to take the bus to the airport, then to Oslo, then connecting flight to Florø, then helicopter out to the platform. Ah, the joy of it all.

Cheers. N

The Devil Wears Prada have a new album.

So TDWP have a new album out, called Dead Throne. I had a listen to a few tracks online. WOW! These guys are just getting better and better. I was lucky enough to see them with Bring Me The Horizon in Gothenburg, Sweden last year. Awesome show. But anyway, check the new album out. Heres a video of the first single. Looks rad. 

 

Fisheye and random snapshits.

I have recently acquired a 8mm 1:3.5 fisheye. Its super sweet!!! I was looking at the Canon EF 15mm 1:2.8 and the Canon EF 8-15mm 1:4, and a bunch of other Sigma wide angle goodies, but i found this gem for a bargain, I was less than a third of the price of the above mentioned. Score.

I debated for a period, whether to maybe wait a bit longer and save the extra cash to buy some L-glass goodness, but i came to the conclusion that A) This is a lens that i will use for fun and playing around 95% of the time. B) I cant justify spending 3X- 4X more on a lens that does "pretty much the same" when i dont live in CPT anymore and dont have a housing or shoot surfing/bodyboarding as much as i would like to.

This is where it gets a bit nerdy. For those that have no interest in Tech-Specs of gear, im sure SABC3 (eller NRK hvis du bo i Norge) has something less mind numbingly boring on right now.

This lens has NO Autofocus. Is this an irritating problem? No. 8mm is so wide, that the sharpness is right across the board regardless, sure if youre a pixel-peeper, you will be disappointed, but you really have to misjudge you distance to your subject BADLY to screw the focus up.

This lens does not line up with the Canon EF (S) mounts so you can control aperture from the body. So you have to dial in your Full Stops and half stops manually on the lens. I actually like this. Im also going to start using my old Mamiya/Sekor 35mm lenses with this feature more.

Filming in HD with this lens is awesome. End of story.

It feels solid in your hands and on the body, just have to watch out for the front element as it protrudes massively! The front lens cap is bit of a joke, going to have to modify it some way so that it fits a bit more snuggly.

Here are some test shots from the weekend. Enjoy.

Gamle by brua i Trondheim, dritt været. 

Nose was about 10cm from the front element, this thing is WIDE!!!

Ya, i dunno, could really find a sensible caption for this.

Torstein, with the latest edition to the Eide clan, Trim, or Trym or Trimm?

Insomnia sucks...

Cant sleep... I hate insomnia. I seem to have run out of PG13 websites to forage for amusing content. Oh well, watch some more Family Guy... more snus. This .GIF is brought to you by lack of sleep.

Rhino nudges warthog, like a boss.

GOING HOME!!!

Awesome!!! Tickets back to SA are booked. Thanks to some help from Neety and Rolfy, I will be home with my better half (not Jenna!) some time in beginning of December (cant divulge into details, got to keep some surprise!) and will be staying long enough to get some solid swell, bomb some hills and do some serious road tripping!!! AMPED! So I thought I would post a shot of something rad. Værsågod!

Kriss - 180 flip to 50-50. Rosenborg Park.

.GIF magic

Awesome. Got tattooed. Looks fresh, theres a special little one for all you folks back home. Awe. But whats even more awesome than that is, I just found out i can upload .GIF folders up here. So expect alot more of this in the future. Heres one to start:

Wiggle puppy, WIGGLE!!!