Mette Brandt Photography » People

Christoffer

Mette — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:51:17 +0000

This young man is my son, and I have collected some photos of him in this album:

Newborn mother

Mette — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:10:28 +0000

This is my daughter who just has become a mother herself to little Celine. It is not easy to describe the beauty of this with words so I have tried to do it with this pictures…

Russ – a Norwegian student phenomenon

Mette — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:43:40 +0000

“Russecelebration” is a Norwegian culture phenomenon, which is based on a Danish tradition.
When students finish high school they call themselves russ and marks it with partying and special russe customs that russ hats, cards and vehicles. They wear red cloths.
The celebration peaks often up to the 17th of May, Norway´s national day, where there are students’ parades all over Norway and the Norwegian schools abroad.
Other Russ traditions include russe-kro, russ-evue and russ-newspaper.

Maartje is a russ at the Norwegian School at Gran Canaria this year and we went out in the desert, Dunas de Maspalomas, and took some russe-photos.

Schoolparty again

Mette — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:13:52 +0000

Here are some more photos of the students on their way to a schoolparty on saturday last week. It´s Karina, Paul, Ida, Ann Cecilie, Simen, Maria, Malin and Adam. Aren´t they looking cool? Yes!

Students on their way to a schoolparty

Mette — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:46:19 +0000

I took some pictures of some students at the bordingschool where I´m working on saturday. They where on their way to a schoolparty and I took some photos of them. Let´s start with Maartje who I have taken pictures of before. I really like to take picture of her, she is very photogenic and looks really nice. She is always very creativ and do a lot of funny things when we take the pictures. And I like the result.

Maartje

Mette — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:05:31 +0000

I have been working hard lately to understand my flashes. And I have added some more gear to my collection, Elinchrom Skyport radiotriggers. This year I will also buy some studiostrobes.

My good friend Maartje has been so kind to be the model for me when using the Skyports for the first time. And I think she is doing great. Actually we used the pictures for an article about her. She is going to participate in the Chemistry Olympic Game! Wow, thats something. I wish you all the luck Maartje.

I did use two flashes here, one on camera left, shot through an umbrella and one flash behind the glass wall. Camera settings: 1/200 sec. at f/7.1.

I like the effect on the blue wall and the contrast of Maartje´s red top.

You can read the article about Maartje here

Having fun with Geir and the gear

Mette — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:53:29 +0000

I was doing some cleaning on my harddrive and rediscovered those photos I took in june 2009. Geir and I went to Amadores Beach at Gran Canaria to have some fun with the gear. We brought two flashes, some plastic folio in different colors to put on the flashes and put the white balance on tungsten. While the sun was going down, the light was changing and it was very interesting how the colors came out on the photos. Just a new experience while we were having fun…

Behind the scenes…

Mette — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:41:00 +0000

I have to post these photos from the last shooting of Lena & Lena, of my husband and co-worker Geir, without his endless patience with me, the light, the gear, everything, well, there wouldn´t be many photos taken I guess…

Thanks Geir!

Lena & Lena

Mette — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:28:00 +0000

Christmas time is christmas card time. We were asked by Lena & Lena if we would like to do some photos for their christmas cards, and how could we say no? Actually I like these jobs, nice people in nice enviroment, but GOD how much work. Very often on shoots like this I come home with 500 – 1000 photos. And its difficult to pick out the best. And the retouching take time…
We went to a nice beach at the right moment of the day when the light normally is perfect. But the lightcondition this day was difficult. Then sun went on and off all the time. Flash? No flash? Reflector? No reflector? Both? Nothing?

But I think the result is very good, and Lena & Lena seems to be very happy with the photos!

Merry Christmas!

Todays photo-art…

Mette — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Ok, here are some photos, or let me say, work, of Giovanni. Giovanni is a bus driver on Aruba, he drives a pink, old school bus and gives tourists that comes to Aruba a tour around the island. I grabbed my camera and made him do some posing, did some shots of him when we did that tour on his bus. His nice skin color makes it interesting and I gave the photos that grunge-look, a very discussed look, hated and loved. But I love it…

With the first photo I came third in a photo contest on the Photoshop Cruise.