Photography | Petri Damstén

I broke the remote control port from my D800 years ago. For D850, I wanted a cable relief to keep my ports intact. For the GFX-50s, I wanted something similar too. It has the battery compartment in a weird place, and the only L-plate I could find that allows easy battery change was Arca-Swiss Classic...

Cable Relief v2

One Eyeland Photography Awards 2021 Finalist – “The Dark Room”

One Eyeland Photography Awards 2021 Finalist

I wanted to add an intro video to my youtube channel and therefore played with my photos in DaVinci resolve. It’s a very capable program which also means not the easiest one. I took my time and learned a lot more about making the animations, speed ramps, etc. and now have a couple of new...

DIY Photography: How i made a diy remote on a pole adapter for operating both camera and light on my ownPetapixel: How I Attached a Camera Remote to a Handheld Light Pole

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2nd Place – Merit of Excellence for Mental Wheel in Fine Art from 15th International Color Awards, 2022.

15th INTERNATIONAL COLOR AWARDS

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...

I ripped off the legs of an old light stand, so it’s just a handheld pole with the light. I also want to use the camera remote control when holding the light. That way, I can operate my camera on a tripod when I don’t have an assistant. The STL file for the remote holder...

Remote on a Pole

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

Gold for “The Dark Room” (8 images) in COVID-19 Related Photography – Fine Art category from New York Photography Awards 2021.

New York Photography Awards 2021

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...

Logo design for the Finland International Digital Circuit photo competition. This is the same competition where I have been a judge for a seven years in a row now (Kuopio Salon).

FIDC Logo Design

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