My blog, although I don’t see myself as a blogger but as a Photographer I will try to blog some interesting material during the weeks.
Expect at least 2 updates a week.
Another thing I love to visit while traveling are abandoned buildings, the structure, (often) graffiti, and the whole mood of these places are often just awesome to shoot. So we were delighted when we passed these buildings and were able to walk around and take some quick shots.
One of the things I love to do when traveling is seeing the things that normally the tourist doesn’t see, so we always place a call on social media and hope to find a local photographer that is willing to show us around and take us places we would otherwise never see…. and we were not disappointed this trip, I think we had three of the best tour guides available.
In Tampere we were shown around by Matti, a well known Finnish photographer and teacher.
One of things I love to see are people in not everyday situations for us… so according to Matti I had to see ice swimming.
Now imagine us on the shore in thick clothing (several layers), wearing gloves and seeing people in only their swimming trousers and a hat (very important) going to the water (which is all frozen over) to take a little swim after which they will just sit outside and enjoy the weather or go in into the sauna.
I asked if I was allowed to take some images and, probably because this seems to be very common in Finland, it was no problem, so today I present a small series I took on Ice swimming.
The ultimate weekend is always one of my most intense workshops I teach.
In 2 days I try to give the group everything they want to know about model photography (and loads of fun), and you literally never know what will happen (later more on that in another blog post).
Today some of the images we shot during the second day of the workshop.
Models : Nadine and Jonathan.
Do you also want to visit one of the Ultimate Weekends?
There is one planned on May 22-23rd (see the banner above this post)
Today some of the images I shot during the workshop/seminar for the National Association of professional photographers in Finland.
The first day I arrived I visited their annual meeting and I must be honest…. we came directly from the airport and these were the first people I really met and I was a bit surprised/worried/afraid, imagine getting out of the car and being visited by people that are dressed like they were beamed back from the 70-80’s disco times….. so I was a bit like “Ok this is gonna be fun for shoots”, it took them at least 15 minutes before they probably understood my surprised look and explained that they were all dressed up for a disco party….. NOW that explained a lot. The next day they were all in their normal clothing and I actually had to figure out who was who 😀
Anyway a long story short.
The quality of the photography that I saw was insanely high and I decided to keep the seminar aimed at styling in a photoshoot, a topic that is always handy. During the live shoot I aimed for the tricks you can do with very simple light setups, remember these shots were taken as SAMPLES so not portfolio material. But I always like to share them so you guys can see what we do during these kind of days.
Many thanks to the awesome audience and the models (and my model from the audience)
