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Violise Lunn

Aescape — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:44:00 +0000

Fashion shoot for Danish fashion designer and artist Violise Lunn. It was a lovely day in the studio and a pleasure to be able to shoot so picturesque, romantic clothes. Cecilie as always is a delight to shoot, and looking in some of the shots quite like a pre-raphaelite muse.
Clothes & styling: Violise Lunn
Model: Cecilie Jensen Bødker

Resignation

Aescape — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:43:32 +0000

res·ig·na·tion

[rez-ig-ney-shuhn]

noun

1. the act of resigning.

2. a formal statement, document, etc., stating that one gives up an office, position, etc.

3. an accepting, unresisting attitude, state, etc.; submission; acquiescence: to meet one’s fate with resignation.

Dictionary.com

Ordinary objects

Aescape — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:55:14 +0000

Exercises from a workshop with talented and insightful photographer Pernille Koldbech Fich. Object portraits of given everyday objects found in the immediate surroundings at school.

a chair

a table

Large object

a room

small object

the colour red

a window

Only one shot for each motive;

a light source

jacket

a bag

a pair of shoes

a person in a chair

Jannick Raunow portraits

Aescape — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:03:42 +0000

For a DMJX assignment, I had 20 mins to take portraits of Danish actor Jannick Raunow at a given location; close to the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, downtown CPH.

BizCoach business portraits

Aescape — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:46:34 +0000

Business portraits of Michael Groser, BizCoach, in downtown Copenhagen.

The accordion player

Aescape — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:38:33 +0000

A friend of a friend who is a music student and needed PR shots for when she finishes her studies.

DMJX september

Aescape — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:59:38 +0000

Photographs from exercises at DMJX in september.

Portrait of a family member that tells a story with light #1. S rather looking like Bran from Game of Thrones

Portrait of a family member that tells a story with light #2; G is thoughtful.

Still life 1 - my grandfather's Hasselblad from 1964 and photos he took with it.

Still life 2; a photo of my grandmother, and her old sewing scissors with rope and a necklace

Portrait in natural light; outside

Portrait in natural light; inside

Portrait in natural light; sidelight from the window. Looking vaguely like Russell Crowe...

during the flood

Aescape — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:55:55 +0000

There was torrential rain here today, and S asked if he could run out into it. Sure, we said. Put on your bathing shorts. If it had been a little warmer, I’d have joined him.

He’s a little wild thing. He loves it.

25 portraits in 8 mins

Aescape — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:00:58 +0000

I’ve been busy, mostly with helping R finish his summer exam project for KARCH, so I didn’t get around to posting this. It’s the last of the admission tests I did for DMJX; we did it on day 2 in the morning. The assignment was portraits, which was a relief and exciting; portrait is easily my favorite discipline of photography. We were each given a model, a basement room, one light and 8 minutes to shoot plus 2 mins to set up, with a requirement to hand in 25 uncropped portraits, one of which should be chosen as the best one.

8 mins goes by faster than you’d think. Overall, I was satisfied I’d done a good job within the time limit, if not a fantastic one. I would have liked more variety of poses and expression, but some time was spent talking and connecting with the model (a wonderful girl, a student at the school, not a professional model) to ensure she was comfortable and to get a sense of her, to know what to look for.

The connections between people have always been a point of fascination, whether it is myself in relation to another, or other people to each other. I think that’s why I enjoy portrait so much. To create a good portrait, I feel I must find a strand of connection to the person I am photographing, in order to sense and capture something genuine, an expression of true identity. Not every part of the subject’s identity, of course; there usually isn’t time for that. But an aspect, a glimpse, of something true.

It doesn’t always happen, and when it doesn’t, something is invariably missing from the result, even if it’s technically good. On this occasion, because of the short timeframe, achieving that connection was my greatest concern, but I needn’t have worried. My model was cheerful, open and happy to cooperate, and the photos came out better than I’d dared to hope for with just 8 mins to shoot and about an hour and a half afterwards to choose, edit and present all 25 images.

And the favourite (incidentally the only landscape that made the cut);

I must have done well, because I will be starting Photographic Communication at DMJX this fall.

a tiny epic

Aescape — Sat, 28 May 2011 12:27:59 +0000

For the 3 word drama , I shot another little series in the greenhouses of the botanical gardens. I came across a box of dirt with very, very small plants. The whole box was less than 50×50 cm, but if you look closely, there was an epic tale going on there. I’d love to come back with a macro lens.

1 :: the pioneer

2 :: Clinging on for dear life.

3 :: Daring.

4 :: Coming together.

5 :: Towards the light

I have no idea which plants these are, i would love to know.