Photoshoots | Petri Damstén

These images were photographed in July. It took some time to get these ready but halloween is just around the corner so it’s now good time to finnish these. We were in an abandoned school here in eastern Finland. It offered some rough backgrounds for the shoot although most of the space was unusable (floor...

Black Widow, part 1

Rough fitness style images with Jake and one extra with a more conceptual idea. I don’t know what neighbours thought but It is actually really hard to act screaming without making noise so Jake had to yell, but so no loudly, for the Roar image.

And the remaining images for the series…

Broken Doll, Part 2

First images from the “Broken Doll” photoshoot. Idea for this shoot came from Merja, an another camera club member. She has access to this farm and has worked with Kiki before. Kiki wanted to do a bit darker images so she suggested if I wanted to do the shoot. It’s no secret that I like to...

Broken Doll, Part 1

Me and JP had a photoshoot last sunday. My wife’s sister asked me earlier to get some photographs of her and her horse. She likes fantasy themes so I edited a couple of photos to that direction. We ended up using just natural light which was pretty varying but sun was getting pretty low so...

Jan-Peter asked me if I would like to do a small photo battle. I immediately said yes. We selected Jason theme and went to the camera club studio. We both had our own ideas and we photographed bunch of photos for further editing. And now we are proudly to present the results:

I know one of the contenders in “Farmi” that is a reality show running in Finnish TV channel Nelonen. He asked if we could do some pictures to fill his facebook page and we kept the theme of the pictures in the TV show.

…or as we Finnish call it “Paskalla”. There is an underlying theme of corporate power and money coming first, everything else second. But I think there is still much humour in the pictures. Water tank of our toilet seat was leaking and had to be replaced. I saved the old seat and thought that it...

My friend makes his own music. He had his birthday and first I could not figure out what to give him as a present. Then I thought that I could make some photos related to his hobby. He had already thought of getting some pictures so it fitted him well. We photographed photos in camera...

Day two pictures from Kuopio Rock. Two day festivals are hard even without camera. Legs, knees and other joints start to ache. I guess I’m getting old…

Kuopio Rock, Day 2

I was lucky to get a media pass to the Kuopio Rock. I have been in numerous festivals but this was the first time with the camera. Photographing at the front of the stage was much more hectic that I’m used to, but after getting over the initial confusion I enjoyed it very much. These...

Kuopio Rock, Day 1

Starts to look like a new photo project…

“Illusion of Light” That is the theme for this month in local camera club. I took it quite literally and made a picture that has illusionist with a light bulb. At editing stage I added glowing wire from another photo and then quite strong bleach bypass effect. I think it fits to this “dark magician”...

My friend loves everything with combustion engine. We took some photos about motorcycling earlier and this time it was snowmobile. We tried attaching camera to snowmobile similar that we did with the motorcycle but there was too much vibration to get long enough shutter speeds. We were on the lake near the shore and it was...

“This is a story of Helmut. Lonely, isolated human being in an increasingly cruel world. Here you see short glimpses and small thoughts about his life.” That might be the introduction to this photoshoot. It has been fun project to make. Shoot was my first but hopefully not last. I think it went pretty well...

‘Life of Helmut’ Photo Shoot