Fashion & Portraits

Couple of things in the pipeline developing nicely but too slowly.

After the couple of fashion sessions I’ve found my self shooting something more simple with Salvatore and now with Masha.  We went out to a blazing almost-spring sun which makes impossible for me to use my speedlights as a mainlight. Even if I double the power with two units its complitely useless to even try to overpower the sun when the sycn speed is limited to 1/250th of a second.

Ance held a scrim to diffuce  the  othwerwise way too bright and hard sunlight.For some images I bounced a speedlight from the snowy ground to provide some fill. Could not use a fill card because it was already used a scrim.

Postprocessing was done i a different way than usualy for practice and because the images did not call for heavy post production.  Clean portraits, clean post..

This social media stuff starts to pay the off! I wish it paid the bills thou, would be kinda cool to have Facebook paying the phone bills. But more of this after the weekend.

Here is couple of pics I shot of  Salvatore who Id like to call ‘the italian bon jovi.’ I was sure that John did a kakaoke gig at the Soolo when I first heard Salvatore sing living on prayer. Great guy in general too, always smiling, calm and relaxed. I feel like a monkey on a streroids compared to him..

The catch in the session was hard light. The shadows are our friends but its not always available. Thus I thought its better to practice then to shit on my pants when the its the real deal. So off we went to the park with Antti, reflector, ezybox and couple of SBs. Thanks to Antti for assisting, and to Salvatore for being so patient. He did not complain at all, althou the bright sun hurt his eyes and the frost bit his toes..

Its laid back sunday and Im watching ‘the shot’ on tv. What a waist of time! For f**k sake, why even bother.

The pic below is shot with a lumix something camera.  Usualy its in the bag only for the video feature but it was the only camera with me on new year…

The Pub Jaakko,well I just love the place.  Go there also if you come by Kotka.

Philip was cool as always, thanks man. Again.

Updated the flickr account. Now it also includes a portfolio. Its not the same as in here because its hastly assembled of the 200 photos Im allowed to show at once on my normal flickr account.

Some new cool projects coming up..

Which is which and which is best?