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Filmed with my Canon 5D mk2 during the New Years celebration here in Norway. ISO is set to 3200 and I used my 70-200mm 2.8L IS lens. I`m pretty happy with the 5D as an HD camera but the power lines ruined most of the film :/

Hope you all have a great Christmas

After getting up 4 in the morning to catch the flight it was nice to get settled in to the hotel and rest for a bit. Saturday Kristian and me went around the city and had a few beers and enjoyed some great food. As the devoted photographers that we are the cameras got some exercise also:

The next morning we got up around 7 and started our journey out to Bert Stephani`s house. Two trains and a cab ride later we arrived @ The Barn ready for our first International Workshop

Pictures from the workshop can be seen here : http://www.bernt-inge.net/foto/LIME%20Workshop/

A huge thanks to Mike Larson, Pieter Van Impe and Bert Stephani for a great workshop experience. Looking forward to see you guys again soon

I will try to get a small portfolio together here to show of some of my work, until then you can enjoy one of my old creations:

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Enjoy and have a great week

The theme for Foto Kaffe was “Mobbeboken” – http://mobbebloggen.wordpress.com/

Lots of good pictures and great fun, here is some behind the scene shoots:

Walter Duck from What The Duck is of course present

Results can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/fotokaffe and http://www.flickr.com/groups/mobbeboka

Foto Kaffe wishes all its members a great summer, please contact me if you have comments or inputs for a Foto Kaffe event on twitter @berntinge

Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo

Here are the results so far:

Duck Hunt, originally uploaded by Bernt-Inge.

Had a fun evening at Østensjøvannet testing out flash photography on birds Here is the evenings favorite

Even got to hold one of the snakes. Amazing creatures.

Bernt-Inge holding snake

Day 1
First half of the day Bert went through the lighting basics and showed examples shots. After lunch he started taking photos of the model for the day Linnea. The results of his shoot can be seen here:

http://bertstephani.com/blog/?p=133

Day 2
We met up early at the Tiger in front of Østbanehallen, most of us still half asleep
The first location we went to was Gamlebyen Skatepark, here we started of by finding a good background with the tricks Bert taught us. Then we lighted the subject with one flash in front of the awesome background
Results of assignment one:

Second up we played around a little with “overpowering” the sunlight to catch the cool clouds on the sky.
results:

Bert then gave us another assignment, main-light is natural and background lit by flash.
results:

After hours of play at the skatepark we went for lunch at Sultan just down the street before we changed up the location to Middelalder parken. As usual the park was pretty packed with people barbecuing, but that did not stop the 25 photographers from crawling and climbing around with expensive gear and lots of light.

We started shooting the “find of an old viking crown”, we played around with the story and tested lots of lighting setups but ended up with one of our first shots as the favorite:

Then Bert suggested us to give a tribute to the national sport of Norway – barbecuing:

A great weekend for us all, weather was great and we had lots of fun. I think I speak for all of us when I say this is worth doing again. Thank you Bert for a great workshop, you are an inspiration to us all for your dedication of giving back.

Berts work and blog can be seen here: http://www.bertstephani.com/blog/

Contact him for information on how you can make a workshop in your area.