I shoot basic portraits and passport photos rarely, but I had taken a few pics for Yolan a while ago. Now he wanted something more creative looking, but professional. Something to use anywhere from LinkedIn, resume, or company website. My idea was to shoot some low-key photos with red color fill inspired by the PR photo of the EDM artist SWARM.
Because I've played around with RBG lights and gels this was quite an easy and fast shoot. On top of that, this is something I can easily re-create in almost any indoor space or outdoors as long as it's not too bright. It could be interesting to try this with some cityscape in the background. Any takers? Hit me a message if you need to get some creative yet professional portraits done.
Creative professional portraits - Photo Gallery
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Anni wanted to shoot some photos outdoors while there still was some snow on the ground. This was actually my first photoshoot during the day in winter time making it a bit new experience. Most of my photos are fairly dark and this was the complete opposite.
Because Anni lives nearby I thought why not shoot right next to my place in Kannelmäki because there are plenty of natural elements like woods, fields, and a river. Only problem was that there were quite a lot of skiers and all the paths were turned into ski trails. So we had to walk in deep snow to get anywhere.
I wish I had chosen some proper boots for that day because my sneakers were full of snow from the minute we found the first shooting location next to the river called Mätäjoki (rotten river). What a beautiful name for a river.
Because I wanted to make these photos slightly more dramatic I added some fog and snowfall to all of them. Editing these gave me tons of new ideas I want to try out especially more photo composing. Hopefully, I got to work on them soon!
Winter Witch - Photo Gallery
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Once again I was invited to shoot photos at Neonya!! party at Tiivistämö, Helsinki. I really like this venue overall. Cool lighting makes it always such fun to shoot photos.
This time they had Dj Noriken all the way from Japan and nanobii from our neighbor Sweden to attract the audience. I have no idea how many tickets were sold, but damn it felt like the event was sold out again. Especially during the Dj Noriken set it began getting hard to move around the venue and shoot from different locations.
Overall I'm really happy with the photos I got this time. This was my second time shooting with the brand new Sony a7RV and damn I really love its new autofocus. With a7RIV I used to just rock it with the manual focus because I could focus much faster that way. Now I can just focus on framing and timing my shots better instead of getting the perfect focus.
Neonya!! Party - Photo Gallery
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Feels like it's been ages since the last Club Infektio club event. I've been to almost every event since the beginning of their over 11-year history. It's at the Club Infektio where I got my first club photography lessons from their other photographer Tuure Kaunisto. I had done photography a lot even before that, but never with a digital camera.
It was really nice to see so many of my friends who I haven't really seen since the pandemic put the world in lockdown, but I gotta admit that partying and photographing the whole night really took a toll on my energy. I guess I'm just getting old, but I'll rave till I die, so there's no time to slow down just yet.
Club Infektio - Photo Gallery
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Tia has taken a long break from modeling and for a good reason. And because of that I was really excited to shoot with my long-time friend whom I've known almost as long as I've been photographing, but still, we have never collaborated even once.
This was only my second time trying to squeeze a little studio into my living room and I think it really worked great, but I'm definitely considering buying a 35mm lens. I have 24mm and 70-200mm, but nothing between that. Because 24mm isn't the best portrait lens and it makes it hard to work with a small background, I had to use my 70-200mm. Tia isn't tall, but just look at those boots! I had to shoot her my back against the wall to barely fit her in the frame and add a bit extra background in editing.
Tia also brought her two Italian greyhounds with her and during the last couple of hours, I pretty much took photos with one of them sleeping on my lap. Best photoshoot ever!
Tia X - Photo Gallery
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Juha knew about this cool looking train stop at Leinelä with these green glass walled waiting seats.
One thing I learned about shooting at dark train stops is that I really can't pack too much stuff with me because while we were shooting, it didn't take long until there was someone looking at my camera bag with a way too interesting look on his face. Because trains were coming and going on both sides of us, it would have been really easy for him to grab my bags and run when the train doors beeped the closing signal. But nothing was stolen so we decided to take a little break to wait until that guy went away.
Otherwise, the shoot went great. I really loved Juhas long cybergoth style jacket and because he really likes this gree-black color theme, it was great to find such a perfect spot for the shoot. I also brought a couple of Godox TL60 RGB lights with me to add some extra vibe to the photos and tried out a couple of photos with a prims glass.
Cyberpunk Photoshoot with Juha - Photo Gallery
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This is my first time testing out my new home studio. I really do not have much space for shoots, but enough for a single model of most product photography.
We wanted to do more horror-themed content for the upcoming spooky season. This time the plan was to do a bit more photomanipulation than I normally do because we wanted Satu to look like a creepy witch straight out of Japanese horror movies. Because we didn't really have any time restriction and and shooting with a friend on Friday nights can't easily take another turn. This shoot took way longer as we tested out a bunch of other ideas as well. Not just the bloody witch, but I wanted to try out a few shots with my RGB lights through the wet glass and eventually we end up shooting hundreds of frames.
Satu came with a half-a-liter bottle of animal blood with her and we listened to some black metal while I painted her skin white and poured the blood on her. I'd say that was a fairly interesting Friday night shoot with a friend and wouldn't mind doing more shoots like that.
Horror Photoshoot with Satu - Photo Gallery
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Rainy autumn gives the perfect dystopian vibe for a cyberpunk photoshoot because it's wet and all the city lights will reflect better from wet surfaces.
The challenge for this shoot was that Alex didn't want his face to show in any of the photos. On those which do show his face, I tried to add some sort of cyberpunk-style anonymity, but most of the photos didn't really require any of it. I was originally planning to shoot most of the on the Hard Rock Cafe - Helsinki entrance, but they happen to have some sort of party that night and the entrance was full of balloons blocking their cool windows. Instead, I shot mostly on the Aleksanterinkatu because it has this brick road giving some nice texture to the ground. Not really futuristic I know, but it's a street I've wanted to shoot for a while already, so while we were already there... why not right?
Cyberpunk Photoshoot with Alex - Photo Gallery
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The last on the stage was Centhron As I watched the Moris Blak show all the way to the end I couldn't squeeze myself close to the stage anymore, but I was able to capture a few shots over the audience.
That was it for the band gig at the Hellsinki Industrial Festival!
Centhron - Photo Gallery
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The last artist on the club stage was Moris Blak. This was the one I was expecting most from the Hellsinki Industrial Festival and it was a really nice surprise when I heard he was added to the roster.
Just like during the Mechanical Vein show on the previous night, the Moris Blak got invaded by the Mechanical Vein and the Biomechanimal raising the hype up to the roof.
Moris Blak - Photo Gallery
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