Behind the Scenes | Petri Damstén

I was going to continue the “How I Move” series earlier, but the pandemic got in the way. But I think now is a good time to continue this project. For a first new pair of images I photographing Kari and his Triumph. If you want to join in the series there is more info...

How I Move – Kari

A bit of different style of images this time. These were taken in Vuorilampi, Kuopio, Finland. Great place for a walk in the forest and some photographs.

Outdoor portraits

I’m planning a new series now that summer is ending. Alongside that, I have some summer projects still going on. To get a break, I just wanted to take some photographs to get to the back of the camera.

From the Darkness I will Rise

Idea was to take summer portraits. I think I would need much more practise to take happy and colourful images. It’s just not my cup of tea.

Summer portraits

I had couple of more images left from the photoshoot with my son. One, two, Freddy’s coming for you..

Freddy Portraits

This was a last minute idea when I was moving the chair out of the way. Why not not use it in one of the images to get some variety.

Welcome to my dream world

I rarely do mono images, but these one-light portraits worked nicely in black and white. These images were quite ready from the camera, which is rare for me. I usually have much more layers in photoshop, but this was a nice change.

We took quite a lot of poses with the katana sword. In photoshop, I started to think about manga comics and decided to try something similar visually. I ended up doing this triptych with three different poses from the shoot.

Katana Triptych

I haven’t used the camera club studio for a while. The corridor to the studio has these massive metal doors. I took my chair with me and carried it to the place for this shot. In photoshop, I tightened the doorway a little since it was wide.

Chair in the Corridor

These kind of wigs are hard to photograph for me. They shine quite unnaturally and have lot, I mean a lot, of flyaway hair to edit. Also the rim lights were a bit hot but I think I managed to get the hair in a state that looks good to me.

It took some time to finish these vampire images since me and my wife renovated our bedroom. At some point one wall was in bare concrete so I took some photos for textures. That ended up straight to the background of these images with some older textures.

Skull and the Book

I have dome vampire themes before and it was time to get back to theme of longer teeth. I was tethering with Lightroom and decided to add our living room tv as a second display to Macbook Air. It was really simple using Apple TV and model could see the image right a way in...

Setups and edits from 2021 2nd Half.

Setups and edits from 2021 2nd Half

I wanted to stamp custom logos to leather. I needed it for hobby use, so metal stamps are out of the question. I 3D printed one for a test and, those seem to work very well. They are fast and easy to make too. I made a coaster with my logo for myself. The wallet...

3D printed leather stamps

I bought this red beanie, and I thought it might pop out in a portrait. I had the light set up ready for the award portrait, so it was easy to test it out. At First, I thought that I will only make one image, but when I was selecting the one I saw these...

End of Excitement

We were taking a new passport photo and I took a portrait with the same setup. With a creative editing it worked surprisingly good.

New awards and honours for Kuopio Camera Club. I took this portrait for Seppo winning the best of show challenge cup in AFCC annual theme competition. I received NFFF NSMiF/D1 honour which were given in the same opening ceremony of the theme competition. One more honourable mention and two more honours were also received by...

I needed a mask display stand for my Freddy Krueger latex mask from Trick or Treat Studios. I ended up making this super cheap DIY stand that was fast to make. You only need some leftover wood, a screw, an empty soda bottle and a black sock (in my case a one without a pair).

Super cheap and easy DIY mask stand

I looked at this staircase already the last time, but now I had an idea for it. I think placing the flash upstairs worked really well in this case.

This long bench was still there and still in one piece. I took five exposures to get some exorcist vibes to the image.