Fashion & Portraits

Its 1 am.

Todays task was to flip through 1411 wedding photos and narrow them down to around 200. I got down to about 400 so it could be discribed as a success.

The pic is another tryout. Its a mix of some basic camera technique and even more basic photoshop. Nothing fancy, just something to do to give an excuse for not sleeping.

There is a good rule when photographing people in difficult situations color wise. Aim for the skin tones. (Or go black and white – just kidding)

Then again, you can always discard the rules and tryout something. With photoshop all this is way too easy and most likely will end up  with a image only worthy for the trash.

Judge for your self.

After sitting here every night for hours editing wedding pictures in the Lightroom the  righthand forefinger starts to switch. Its not the cramps from klicking, its  something worse.

A need to shoot, a need to take the camera and do something.

Sounds creepy? It is.

I called up Henna and asked if she would not mind modeling for hour or so.

Don’t really know what I was thinking thou.  Asked her to wear something simple so it will be easier to move around the rocks. Then I asked if she could bring high heels. Fail. But it worked.

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.