Håkon Stillingen

Kick boxing lifestyle shoots

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:58:18 +0000

A friend of mine Ida, is a professional kick boxer and in 2 weeks she will be competing in SportAccord Combat Games 2010 Beijing. Ida asked me to take some lifestyle shots for her, which I off course did. The shoots are taken at Fiskars in Nydalen where Ida works with marketing.

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On-the-job training

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:09:16 +0000

Yet another wedding photo assignment, this time for Christina and Bendik. With 3 speed lights and a crew of 3, this was fun assignment to do.

Photo assignment

adminwp — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:45:59 +0000

My second wedding photography assignment this year, shooting pictures for Hanne and Lars Morten. Congratulations !
Clouded, and with rain on it´s way, we just managed to shoot before it started pouring down. Using two speed lights, I had two different set ups.

Both speed lights 45 degrees on, using reflectors.
One on 200 degrees for back light, and one at 0 degrees shooting through a white umbrella

The picture of Hanne and Lars Morten with Lars Morten best man Espen, and Hannes maid of honor Ingunn, is two speed lights 45 degrees on. I´m starting to like flash photography, just wish I had a third speed light..

Espen, Lars Morten, Hanne and Ingunn

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Wallpaper

adminwp — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:16:39 +0000

I bought a new apartment in February, which I spent quite a lot of time and money in remodeling. With complements from Polen and my friends I have gotten the apartment the way I wanted it. One of the things that I did this week was to put up wallpaper in my bedroom. Being in love with ocean, I thought it would be a good idea to give my bedroom a touch if ocean. I asked photographer and kiteboarder Bryan Elkus to use one of his pictures from Cape Hatteras, and with help from my colleague and friend Kaare Øystein Trædal, I got it the way I wanted. Thanks guys!

Red Bull Ragnarok

adminwp — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:17:02 +0000

Red Bull hosted a kite event at Haugastøl Norway this weekend, and I was there. What an event. On Friday 110 kiters competed in a endurance kite race, and Saturday a snowboard / ski cable track freestyle competition.

The concept (Taken from www.redbullragnarok.no)
The participant event Red Bull Ragnarok will select up to 200 riders from all over the world to race for 3 hours; 6 rounds of approximately 30 minutes each, stretching from 10-20km. After each round, if not already given up voluntarily, a number of snow-kite heroes will be eliminated.

After a crazy race start Friday, I was doing well after 3 of 5 round holding 4th position. But patience ran out after the wind died for the second time, so I forfeited. Did not bring my camera that day ( picture coming soon) . On Saturday I took pictures of all the snowboarder doing crazy stuff at the cable track kickers and sliders.

Andre

Remi

Sigve

Red Bull Crew

Andreas

Aron

Remi

Jørgen

Aron

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Links to web pages with pictures and video from the event

www.redbullragnarok.no
www.mortengjerstad.com
www.happygolucky.com

Our Hero

adminwp — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:58:28 +0000

Published on Kitescoop.com

adminwp — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:48:54 +0000

One of the stops on my around the world trip was Antigua. Here I met Adam, a local kiteboarder and admin of www.kitescoop.com. Adam took me and one of his local kiteboarding friends Jake out for a spin one day, and I took lifestyle shoots them. Adam wanted to use the pictures on his new web page, which I was totally cool with. Today he launched his new site today. Congratulations Adam!

Main page – I took Header picture 1 ( Adam and Jake in the car)
Lifestyle photo sessions – Pictures I took of Adam and Jake
Kitescoop Artist page – Presentation of the contributors to Adams page

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Photo library memories

adminwp — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:23:06 +0000

After I got my new Hackintosh up and running, I have so much storage. I decided to add some of my older pictures to my Lightroom library. Running Snow Leopard, I´m also able to run Lightroom in 64 bits mode. I am not sure how much faster it is since I need more time with it, but rendering RAW images is quicker. Anyway, I found this picture from a trip to Haugastøl almost 3 years ago. I was windy, but bad weather, I was in the car almost the entire day. I was bored, and took this picture. I kind of like it.

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Meeting an old friend

adminwp — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:58:40 +0000

After hocking up on Facebook almost a year ago, I finally managed to meet be old army college buddy, Anders. I had not seen Anders since we graduated 11 years ago, so I was pretty excited. After living in different part of northern Norway, Anders and he´s family moved back to were he and his wife Tone grew up, Senja. This is Norways second biggest island, and is the northern part of Norway, a 2 hour flight from Oslo.

On saturday, Anders took me around the island, and it has some pretty stunning nature.
The weather was not all that great though, something I really felt on our mountain trip, 30 knots and snow. Not exactly a walk in the park. But all in all we had a great weekend with catching up, good food, FIFA 09, mountain trip and I got to meet Anders and Tone´s kids, Erik and Frida and Anders parents.

Road to Husøy

Husøy

“Fiskevær”

Happy campers, Anders and I

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Oslo by Night

adminwp — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:57:13 +0000

I finally invested in a tripod, and I chose Benro C-297. I´t a carbon fiber tripod, so the weight is not that bad, and the build is very good. I also bought a Manfrotto 804RC2 pan / tilt head, but I´m not all that impressed with that. The mount on the Manfrotto is not solid enough to support my camera when I have Canon 70-200 f2.8 IS USM mounted on my camera body. It tilts a couple of degrees after the handgrip /adjustment is tightened. Anyway, I took it all out for a spin today, and these are some visual expression from my first “tripod shootout”

Carl Berner subway station

Oslo City Hall

Aker Brygge

Karl Johan

St.Hanshaugen Narvesen

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