Trond Sørås Photographer

Tiny helicopter

Trond Soras — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:49:07 +0000

Almost nothing is as awesome as helicopters. Except helicopters filmed in slow motion.

Randoms

Trond Soras — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:10:34 +0000

Night out

Trond Soras — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:13:12 +0000

Daily life

Trond Soras — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:57:03 +0000

View from living room.

Quay builder, Tau, Jørpeland.

Image dump nov/dec 2011

Trond Soras — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:45:50 +0000

Not working as a photographer anymore, now web developer at Ghost

Surfer Knut Bentzen

Trond Soras — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:31:35 +0000

Mr. Bentzen is a Sales Director of Viju, a company that deals in video conferencing. He is also an eager surfer, cyclist, rollerblader and tons of other things. I joined him surfing on a beach on the west coast of Norway.

Assignment for Finansavisen.

Archive: Norwegian IPO championship

Trond Soras — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:16:37 +0000

IPO (International Prüfungsordnung) is the largest dog sport in the world. The Norwegian Championships were held late June this year. Assignment for Stavanger Aftenblad. The dogs compete in tracing, obedience and protection.

The weight is thrown over the ridge, and the dog has to fetch.

The audience.

Åse Marie Lura and her dog Jabina Pisca waits to recieve the judge’s verdict.

Some of last weeks assignments

Trond Soras — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:27:07 +0000

Funeral of Marianne Sandvik, a 16-year old girl from Stavanger who was killed in the Utøya massacre. Her father laid a rose on her coffin after giving a memorial speech in Stavanger Cathedral.

Comedian Per Inge Torkelsen, at his home.

Norways Premier League, match between Viking and Tromsø. Ended 2-1 to Viking, this is Tromsø’s goal in the second half.

Quiet day at the office

Trond Soras — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:53:38 +0000

So I made this today, using Rasterbator. This was in between writing captions. Feeling real productive, I am.

(I’m talking about the giant portrait of myself, in case anyone was wondering. The original image can be seen on my About-page)

Photoshelter archive / licensing

Trond Soras — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:13:13 +0000

I went and got myself a Photoshelter account for archiving and licensing. They even manage print sales. Uploading stuff now, more to come. Also have to caption, but I have to mow my lawn first, first day without rain in two weeks. Grass grows fast.

A hundred thousand voices

Trond Soras — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:33:50 +0000

Yesterday, people gathered all around Norway in torch lit marches to support the victims of the Oslo bombing and the Utøya attack. In Stavanger, police said between 75,000 and 100,000 people came together in the city center.

The parade of people encircled the entire city, and it was said that such a gathering of people have not been seen since Norway was liberated after World War II.

The shopping malls in and around Stavanger even closed at 5.30PM so that the employees would be able to take part in the march.

It was truly touching, and the sight and feeling of such a great number of people made me proud to be Norwegian.

I want to quote Norways Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, and what he said during his speech at the event in Oslo:

“Evil can kill a human beeing, but it can never conquer an entire people”

Sindre Buraas and Sondre Nordstad each won gold

Trond Soras — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:37:06 +0000

Sindre and Sondre, who I followed for a week of training in Eldoret, Kenya, each won a gold medal in the European Athletics U23 (junior) Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Sindre won the 5000 meter race, and Sondre won the 10,000 meter race. Sindre still has one more race to qualify for the World Championships in Korea.

Their hard work and commitment is paying off!

Check out the story about them in my portfolio.

Gold medalist Sindre Buraas

A whole new kind of happy

Trond Soras — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:47:21 +0000

My daughter was born yesterday. Her name is Sofie.

Update: Follow Jens Glad Balchen’s Race Across America

Trond Soras — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:44:42 +0000

Jens Glad Balchen, who I photographed for DN about a month ago, is halfway through America and is currently in El Dorado, Kansas.

You can follow his progress on RAAMs website.

I hope he’s having a good time and that everything is going well for him. The 3000 mile (4800 km) race is truly a tremendous challenge.

Assignment – bank CEOs for DN

Trond Soras — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:56:37 +0000

Did portraits of the CEOs of the local banks in Stavanger, for a story on the competition in the financial sector in the city.

From top left: Rune Kastmann from Nordea, Stig Brautaset from Fokus Bank, Jan Klingsheim from Sandnes Sparebank, Tore Medhus from SR-Bank, Lynn Sperb from Handelsbanken and Lorents Nord-Varhaug from DnB Nor.

PS: Gotta love that highspeed synced flash.

Assignment – portable home for DN

Trond Soras — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:27:16 +0000

Glenn Isachsen and Jytte Secher really loves camping, and spends most of their time in their motor home.

Glenn has only spent one night at home so far this year.

Damned missing backup copies

Trond Soras — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:10:18 +0000

In a drunken moment today I managed to delete all the pics from the old blog from my server. I wish there was an easy way to restore them, but there isn’t.

I have all the pics locally ~~so maybe I’ll do something about it at a later point.~~

EDIT: I will upload the pics to the old posts in the next weeks, until it’s complete again. To much work to throw away…

Assignment – Rune Bjørnson for DN

Trond Soras — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:18:37 +0000

Another of the typical 10-minute deals where you just have to make something work in the least amount of time possible. Like last time, exposing for the ambient, and blasting a speedlight at full from behind – worked out quite nicely in the end.

Germany is closing down its nuclear plants as a result of the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima plant – and because of this Statoil expect to sell more gas to Germany for power generation.

Assignment – Åge Hareide for VG

Trond Soras — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:39:53 +0000

This is probably one of the most ordinary assignments I get – to take a picture on the fly while someone important is getting interviewed. It can be a pain in the ass, because the lighting usually sucks. So, I’ve started bringing two speedlight flashes (with radio triggers) to all of these assignments, just in case.

I expose for the ambient, and typically put the flash a stop over the ambient in situations like this.

This is the former head coach for the Norwegian national soccer team, Åge Hareide. He is now the coach for Viking.

Norway Day

Trond Soras — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:21:55 +0000

Independence day in Norway, May 17th, is widely celebrated with marches, flags and brassbands playing in the streets. Many dress up in the national costume bunad (seen in the second picture) and traditionally meet in schoolyards around the country. The kids typically gets to eat as much ice cream as they like, and compete in party games such as sack race and egg race.

Here, they also try and kick a hat off a broomstick. Originally this is the grand finale of the traditional Norwegian dance hallingdansen, and it is called Hallingkast.