You could argue that the framing is off on this one but I love it.
It was fun and cold shoot. At sunset, minus five celcius and light breeze equals frozen fingers.
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Its Monday and my world is spinning. I was on a cruise to Stockholm on the weekend and my ship is still rolling.
Stockholm was bathing in a gorgeous sunlight but out here its all grey and rainy. Hard sunlight isn’t flattering to humans but the way it crawls in the narrow streets of the old Stockholm is worth to photoraph. And of course I did not have a camera with me – apart from HTC which has peace of crap camera I don’t know how to even focus.
Well anyways the pic above of Emmi is a cool shot a proper pose and all. Cool thing about this is that we worked quite a bit on this. Shot the first frame and went ahead on different poses. While we looked through the images on the LCD we figured we’d have another go to perfect the pose. Shot once, twice, looked at it and adjusted the pose again couple of times. Do this with film!
Kaisa&Timi PTII
Kaisa and Timi are off to Thailand for their honeymoon. Me, I am off to Kouvola for the weekend long junior basketball tournament.
While they are relaxing on the beach. I am screaming to bunch of twelve year old they that need to defend harder.
Kaisa and Timi are enjoying a long breakfast at the resort while I am trying to wake up teenage players from a school room floor..
Figures..
All kidding aside I just dropped them a DVD of photos to look at their trip. And when they come back I have all the portraits done and print files ready to deliver. I am seriously thinking of making a blog post about how I shoot, why I shoot and why does it take so long to deliver images.
PT III coming up next week with bridal portraits and final shots.
Kaisa&Timi PT I
Autum-Winter-Wedding, that’s what I would call Kaisa and Timis’s wedding. Its not autum anymore but not yet a proper winter.
I can’t tell how nervous I was for number of reasons but they were simply awesome couple to work with. They drove down to the location in a Porsche and it was plus five Celsius. My first thought was “ouuh crap this is going to be short and sweet photog’s ass kicking” but they were so cool about everything. (literally also!) I fixed lights almost endlesly but we hit couple of cool shots and set at ease. It takes a bit more from couple to smile when they can’t feel their fingers anymore but they rocked – mostly because I wasn’t doing much. Just telling them to do little thing but they were laughing together all the time..
One of the reasons I was nervous was that this was not suppose to be my gig at all. Milka got sick and asked if I could cover for her which I was happy to do. And I was truly happy to help. Every time I book a shoot I think about what would I do if I get sick and have gigs to shoot. Portraits you can always re-schedule but weddings not so much. And if I screw this up its just not my ass on the line but she recommended me to the couple so I better do the job well. I am not off the hook yet. I just finished going through 1523 frames from the day.
BTW do you have small kids?! You’ll definitely want to check out Milka’s blog. You will want to hire her to shoot your kids.
ah, just some on a shoot material for the fb-page
