Friday, March 30, 2012

Portfolio




















Portfolio...a physical portfolio... I never knew how big of a task it would be to put one together. It's so much more than just quickly selecting a number of your photos that you sort of like. It's also defining yourself as a photographer - what you are, how you see yourself. If you had 30 chances by individual photos to show what you are like as a photographer so that the other side would also get the same idea, which ones would you choose? People who know me also know how much I've worked with this. Also because I choose something and after a few days I feel like I should have picked something else. And photos that I like aren't necessarily the ones I should have in my portfolio.

I have had so much valuable help from Pedro Reis, my friend, designer and a kind of mentor who's trying to get things through my sometimes thick head. So thank you for everything! I'm also thanking Merja Yeung who helped me with this a lot. And all my clients and projects that I've been involved doing my work have been amazing.

Now that I have made my final picks and put everything together I still need to print it :). So it is coming...

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Spring baby - newborn shoot














Newborns - so special little ones! I usually arrive to a newborn shoot with nothing else than myself and the camera. I do have my flash but I only take it out if it really is too dark. I don't carry around lots of props for the little ones - I think that I will get to know them when I arrive and will use the special items that parents have already prepared for them.

On this day I had no hurry anywhere so lots of time to chat with mum and dad and settle the baby to sleep. A bright day so all done with natural light with my 50mm f1.4 and (my new favourite with newborns) 100mm f2.8 macro.

Gorgeous baby girl. My love to her and her beautiful parents :).

Friday, March 9, 2012

Kohta 18 - movie opening day today!!








































The opening night for the movie 'Kohta 18' is tonight! I saw the movie already on Wednesday when they had the premiere night, and I think I didn't even blink during the movie, it was so good. And beautifully shot. I'm so proud of Maarit, can't even imagine how much work goes into a project like this!

Here are some stills and behind-the-scenes shots from along the way! Thank you Maarit for letting me to be a part of all this :).


And here you can watch the first 10 minutes of the movie: http://ylex.yle.fi/ylex-areena/play/1330076836333