Fashion & Portraits

Something else is in the pipeline, but lets stick with these for a moment..

Couple of things to do before you go and shoot something you never shot before.

1) Do your homework, research of your subjects and look at the pictures of others.

2) Copy&Paste and fly. Do the copycat thing. Its usefull, helpfull and will save your butt. Granted the pics woun’t be the most orginal ones, but you got something. At the end try to find your own angles.

3) Do as I say, not as I did.

I’ve been kinda burried to other things and just lacked the energy to flip through skate shots. Figured I’ll just wing it and it ought to do. Notebook was filled with lighting ideas which in a nutshell were: Nuke it and spot it.

Nuke it to give me at least something safe to work with.

Spot it to get some graphic high contrast black an whites. Like this. The location is a skate hall in Kotka. Its just around the corner where I live and did not even know it.

Never shot skateboarding before but wanted to, badly.

I had  great time and shot plenty of frames just to get one or two heros. Its all relative ofcourse. A Skateboard- mag editor would not take a  second glance at these but right now  I don’t care. Thanks to Olivier, Philip and Kate..

The shot under is pretty much straight out of the camera.  I spend plenty of time restricting the lights to clean up the backgrounds. Rather have them to go to dark in the camera and not to  ‘fix-them-in-post”. Ah, hate the sentence, and the whole thought. The value of the picture deminishes  if it has to be fixed. (Post processing is not fixing and vice versa!)

More of skateboard pics during the week..

Its friday and…?

Couple of choises, but no money as usual. Fellows at rezistenza invited me to shoot the snowscoot finnish champioships  in tampere this weekend.  Excelent idea if I’d had the money for the trip. (still the idea is not complitely burried yet..)

Dancetstudio Move organized another not-so-serious dance class for boys and thats tommorw, so I’ll head there if the tampere thing fails. MJ would turn in his grave if he saw me doing moonwalk.

The last pics from the shoow with Daniel.  Despite the low-altitude location the pics are what I went for. Joked about impossibility of  making Kotka to look like a big city. Thus we headed for the alley I’ve wanted to shoot in for quite some time. We got some crowd watching us and asking what the hell we are doing, but thats fine..

If in need of a assistant the curious people could be put to work.

A long time ago I swore I will not join facebook, ever! Period, end of disscussion. What a joke! It has turned out to be a very, very usefull tool and a way to get in touch with people like stylists, models, students, other photographers and so on.

The facebook just turned up a notch when the fan page popped up in there! Wasn’t me who created it. Thanks Antti, appreciate it even if created after several beers.

To keep the keep the feet on the ground, there is onlu 13 people in the group… not me thou, yet.

Click to join the fan page.. :) (UPDATE,  due to no-can-do ReNaming the croup we’d deleted it.. it will be back with a different name..)