Monthly Archives: January 2010

Being Impatient

Posted by jussi on January 27, 2010 at 8:31 pm.

A normal photshoot takes around two hours and I walk away with around 200 raw-images. It takes one or two evenings to edit and postprocess the pictures. The previous photsession with Philip was typical in so many ways. But worse part is not the shooting or the processing, its the waiting for the next round. [...]

In colour – kinda..

Posted by jussi on January 26, 2010 at 4:00 pm.

Two more from the shoot with Philip. These aren’t exactly color pictures and even some selective coloring but I tried it in moderation. The location was a shopping centers parking carage here at Kotka. Every car slowed down and we got a fair share of eye balling. Just clad no one run us over it [...]

High contrast

Posted by jussi on January 24, 2010 at 3:23 pm.

Bare flashes, softbokses far away, underexposing the background for good four stops. Add a little time in photoshop and you get very high contrast images in black and white. I really like the series and hope to continue with the same note. The start for the year has been amazing for my photography.

Film noire attempt nr.3

Posted by jussi on January 24, 2010 at 1:27 pm.

Third attempt to do oldfashioned film noire stuff. I discoverd funny thing in my english. I can speak and write quite fluently but I struggle when it comes time to giving directions to the model. Luckily I have fellow infront the camera who does not need intructions. There will be a follow up post with [...]

B&W Hat

Posted by jussi on January 22, 2010 at 7:35 pm.

I think half of my flickr favs are pictures of hat-pictures. Usualy black and white with old fashioned hat.. Something like this.