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For the final image from this shoot, I chose to go with a black and white portrait. I wanted to try something a bit more traditional and classic, in contrast to the more stylized and artistic portraits we had done earlier. Despite the change in approach, I wanted to make sure that the darkness and...
Portrait in Darkness
I wanted to really highlight the beard in this image, and I thought that using a headshot pose similar to the one from the Peaky Blinders poster would be the perfect way to do it. I believe that keeping the eyes hidden adds an element of drama and mystery to the image. By concealing this...
The Beard
This leather apron was originally intended for grilling, but it also worked well as a welder’s apron, giving off some intense “welder from hell” vibes. I’ve used these welder glasses before, and they work great with a beard. With just these two simple props, I was able to create a really interesting, creative, and gritty...
Welder
I’ve had this leather jacket for a while, but I haven’t worn it in a long time. I’m glad I didn’t get rid of it, because it ended up being perfect for this pilot-themed image. These motorcycle goggles really completed the look. They fogged up easily, but it actually looked so good that I enhanced...
Pilot
My friend had grown a nice beard so I asked him to visit my home studio. Here’s the first image from the shoot. I named the picture after the best Christmas movie ever made. I also asked chatGPT what it would say about the image. My friend and I stumbled upon an eerie photograph of...
Rare Exports
Something a bit more conceptual for the last image from the self-portrait day shoot. The crown and the tophat are mine, but I made the tophat look like a hat from the mad hatter in photoshop.
Fool for a king
The idea of the makeup came after taking this image. I just thought that it needed some extra. I found joker makeup images that I took in 2013. I then added that makeup to this image, and it looked much more like my kind of image.
Black Tears
I have seen these portraits with a clear grid reflection on sunglasses. When I found these big round black sunglasses, I decided to give it a try. The image immediately reminded me of a fly, so naming the image was easy. I rarely make monochrome images, but I think it suited this one well. It...
The Fly
I took one passport photo, and since my home studio was open, I took some self-portraits. One thing I tested was how this 110mm lens looks wide open. It is incredibly sharp, even in f/2. The second thing I tested was the automatic eye detection for self-portraits. It worked well in smaller apertures, but it...
Self-portrait
Santa’s story continues… A bit more information what happened to santa during the xmas. Seems that it was a quite a wild ride. My favourite xmas movie is “Rare Exports” and I guess it shows in some of these images.
Santa’s Story Continues…
Breaking News! Santa has been a bad boy and now it looks likely that xmas is cancelled. After various incidents he is now held in Korvatunturi police department. Naturally we follow the situation and inform you when we get more information. More to come…
Xmas is Cancelled
Next one for the “How I Move” project. There is a nice looking forest just beside the road in Puijo so we photographed this bike there. There was more than enough of mosquitos in the forest so we didn’t want to spent more time photographing that we had to. One even ended in the final...
How I Move – Jake
I opened my inspiration folder and decided to took some self-portraits. Perhaps a new profile image…
Self Portraiture Day
Second part of Viking images…
Viking, part 2
We had a viking/fitness themed photoshoot before easter. We had some trouble finding the props but we managed to get theatrical axe and some leather/fur for ’not so historically accurate’ viking outfit. Axe was more from the knights era but I modified it in photoshop and fur was in small pieces which were photographed on...
Viking, part 1
Christmas is coming so it’s time to make some images from Santa Claus. Jake asked me if I would like to take some bad santa themed images and since I already had thought something like that we moved quickly to the planning phase. I took the images in my home studio and it was a...
Bäd Santa
I wanted to try a caricature picture. I took several images and selected two to make the final picture. Next day I thought that I add a camera to the image and I took couple of additional images. I used puppet warp, liquify and many ways of transform a lot in this image. I’m quite happy...
Self Caricature
When I took Yopparai pictures at the cottage weekend we agreed an another photo shoot with Antti. Since he has nice beard I was thinking badass look with some humour. I used my favourite lighting setup, two side lights and one front light. This time I used beauty dish with diffusor for the front. For the...
Badass
I had some leftover pictures from joker shoot so I thought I’ll make another joker themed image. There was three decent pictures but I did not want to just place them side by side, so I photographed hammer to mimic old mole smashing game.
Whack a Joker
I made a big mistake. When testing lights and adjusting settings I accidentally turned exposure time from 1/160s to bulb (I have set 1/160s to flash sync time so it’s only one click away). I used radio remote and exposures where around 1/4s. This was enough to add light to left cheek with a yellow...
Joker