Mar 04 2010

From the Backseat

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The prop I druled over and waited to shoot for better part of the month was the A-Ford. As it -of course- turned out the car was a pain in the ass to work around. With uncontrollable specular highlights and the blue paint job that sucked up all the light! There was no way I could have made my lightsource relativly huge compared to the  car nore have more power out of my SB units.

First I sat on Monica on the drivers seat and shot from outside, what a mess! Too much stuff in the frame and not enough lights (?.)  Monica was cracious infront of the lens and she made even the bad frames to look good.  It was obvious that  wasn’t going to get the pics I was after.  Asked if she would not mind to model for Janne on the seemless for some time and then come back to me. The arangement gave me time to sort things out wihtout having a model being bored to death by f-stops, flash ratios and diffusion..

She came back and I put her on the back seat of the car. One ezybox is on the drivers seat held by VAL (Janne) as a mainlight and the second ezy is back left in the rear window coverd with a scrim. Flare is caused by the sb80dx and sb600 3-4 meters from the windows zoomed out.

I felt awsome! I had to hold my self back not to scream when I looked at the image from the back of my D200! I made true comeback! Stuggeled,  bailed out on time and came back with one of the best images I have ever shot! “Shoot, suffer,die” says da man and I tell ya, I could have died happy after this shot.

Model: Monica Menniti
Make-up: Noora Hautakangas
Styling: Maiju Siekkinen

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Mar 03 2010

Behind the Scenes Clips

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The Espoo shootfest on 28th of Feb left me overwhelmed. Reachign for last the thread of reality, could this be true?  The rude awakening came on monday morning. Good part was that the whole event was not just in my head, it actualy happend!

Our models fought the long day through pain and suffering (almost literaly ) and Noora worked at a feverish pitch to get a makeup after makeup done. My hat is is off for you! The eforts left me feeling quilty as my job seemed to be too easy.

I brought  compact camera to shoot behind the scenes clips and snaps for the blog. Im not into video too much but the ‘home videos’ give you pretty good idea of what we did. A pic of maijus car trunk. Nooo, we did not have anything extra with us. Even forgot couple of bags at home.

More pictures dropping in to the blog during the week. I have couple of more to photoshop before I ship it all out.

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1 video: shows all the cool shoes we shot. They might classified as a medevil torture equipment but they do look cool!
2 video: Sandra shooting Sini
3 video: Janne shooting
4 video: The gear – all I had with me to shoot fits in a very professional Ikea-bag. Notice the second blue bag = two ezyboxes.

bts klip 1 at feb 28th 2019 from jussi lopperi on Vimeo.

bts clip 2, from the shoot espoo at fev 28th 2010 from jussi lopperi on Vimeo.

bts clip 3, from the shoot in espoo at feb 28th 2010 from jussi lopperi on Vimeo.

bts clip 4, from the shoot in espoo at feb 28th 2010 from jussi lopperi on Vimeo.

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Mar 03 2010

The Zippers

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It tried to start this blogpost with a sentence “Maiju Siekkinen is a…” Had it there for 1o minutes and hit delete. I have no words to discribe her and it would not make a difference if this was written in finnish. How the hell she came up the zippers? Don’t know. Looks great!

Being able to work with someone like her has taken my photography to a whole another level in just months. The concepts, the models, the ideas, the energy, everything she has brought to me has turned to gold in the camera.  I hope the D200 -or as I call her the grand old lady- and I can return the favor and produce pictures that helps as well.

More about Maiju coming up. I convinced her to write a blog post about the outfits you’ve seen in the blog. Her side of the story in a way.

Model: Monica Menniti
Make-up: Noora Hautakangas
Styling: Maiju Siekkinen

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Mar 02 2010

Espoo Shootfest Part II

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We got to the location about fifteen minutes late from what we aimed at but who cares. Henna wasn’t feeling too good so she fell a sleep on the meeting room chair for first hour or so. They had to wake her up for subtle makeup, some hay on the hair and a light scarf.. Hay! I think it worth waking up for..

It all worked very nicely on tightly cropped shots. The lighting is a clamshell setup with a touch of hair light held by Janne. I could have had even more power from the bottom flash thou..

Model: Henna Mäkinen
Style: Maiju Siekkinen
Make-up: Noora Hautakangas

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Mar 01 2010

Espoo Shootfest part I

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!

Monday morning was though, reality check hit low and hard. Yesterday was amazing and I could not believe I was there! Talked to Janne about the day after I got home around 11pm and we were both stunned. “WTF just happened..” Truely amazing day and something to remember for sure. Lots of photos and praises to come when I get my head straight and LR catalog sorted.

Massive,massive thank yous to all: Maiju, Henna, Sini, Heidi, Noora,  Janne, Sandra and Monica!

Model: Sini Tarkkinen
Styling: Maiju Siekkinen
Make-up: Noora Hautakangas  ..
I feel almost quilty making these pics.. soooo easy!

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