Heirloom

Time to show you what I came up with our school assignment!

I actually haven't talked about this here yet, so here's some facts:

We had to choose one product to shoot in our school studio and there was 3 photos that we had to make:

1. a photo of the product as it is

2. in usage

3 and in some kind of space

Also, I ended up on choosing a product that is really special to me.

I chose this ring, that I got from my grandmother as I turner 18 y-o..

She herself has gotten this same ring from her mother when she turned 18, so it's something of a heirloom to me.

I love it and it's really precious..

But to the photos!

(as model Valpuri!)

I enjoyed my time in the studio and am pretty pleased with these.. :)

What do you think? :)

What I could have done better?

I really like to get better at photographing, so all feedback is welcomed! :)

Final photos

You still remember those photos that I took of Valpuri in.. November?

Well, if not, you can check that post here!

But yeah, I just wanted to show you the final edits and which photos I chose to show at school..

I made these B&W to have more "class" in them and more of that old time vibe, I guess :D

I actually had understood the assignment wrongly (just a little) and that's why I had to go only with these coat photos, I would have loved to use those dress photos too, but no can do, I'm actually pretty happy even thought I didn't get to use those :)

Model: Valpuri

Advent Calendar: Day 8

Today the photo is of something that I've been working with some time and that is my portfolio for Luova Vaatetus. This is a page from my research book and I will be using this in my mood board.

Too bad that the quality of the photo is little shitty though, gotta blame the light ;)

Prints

Today I got to test printing at school..

I'm still little awkward everytime I have to show my stuff and works so it was a big deal for my to be the first one to print and to print something in that size, because you can see the mistakes (like noise if there is some) so much easier than in smaller photos!

But I finally know which photos I will be printing next week and how I should retouch them more!

So in a week I'll be showing you the final photos and prints! :)

Black dress & red lips

Well hello you all!

Finally I have something new to show you! Something that is school related but ain't boring! (Yes, I thought that the last task we had was a bit dull..)

So.. Our new assignment was to take photos of some products (clothing) and that the products had to have a story behind.. Our thing was to take 3-5 photos and those should be like advertising campaing or something like that.. So, what I came up to was a high-class lady on a train trip.. So what I want to sell with these photos was glamour and luxury etc :'D idk.. :')

But yeah.. I asked the lovely Valpuri to be my model again and she agreed.. Though she didn't know what she was up to ;) Poor thing was so cold at some points :(

But yeah,

the look was created by me, but Valpuri did her own hair and makeup! (ofc according to my hopes)!

Photography and retouch by yours truly~

Hopefully you'll enjoy these~

So those were taken this morning! What do you think? :)

I have to choose 5 for our lesson.. And to be honest I really don't know which 5 I want to edit and print out ;;__;;

So, any help, maybe? :)

Which photos are your favourites? :)

ps. You might have noticed that Choco was also modeling for me this time ;)

Some school stuff

I've been extremely busy lately, I have so many school deadlines, so I haven't even had time to go and have a photoshoot with anyone D: But my photography course has finally started and I get to use studio in January! I'm so going to use it.. A LOT. :)

But we had some basic tasks that we had to do a week ago, like use a long shutter speed etc, so as I've been quiet lately and all you have seen is my Wordless Wednesday photos I decided to show you 2 photos from that task :)

And here I'm also showing some of my mad (read: imaginary) photoshop skills, there's the unedited version and edited one.. I felt like showing you what I do to my photos after I get them to my computer, and normally I just play with curves and that kinda stuff, so there's not much difference.. Or is there?

I actually hated that we had to show unedited photos for our class :D I dunno, I always want to add at least some more contrast to my photos before showing them to anyone.. But I guess that's just me.. :D

ps. I just noticed that tomorrows Wordless Wednesday photo was already up! I swear I had timed it for tomorrow, but oh well.. Some have already seen it, but those who haven't, just wait for tomorrow morning! :)

"Valopaloja" 8.9.2012

Hi~

Here's some photos from yesterday, we had this school thing called "Valopaloja", for it we made lanterns and had a parade.. We walked through from the library to the Lordin aukio through Rovakatu :) Our theme was food and all the lanterns were made to the theme :)

Also we made the lanterns in small groups of 5 ppl, it was really fun!

It was bad luck though that when we arrived to Lordin aukio it was empty, though there was supposed to be band playing and food etc :( But no, I guess the little rain did make it's thing and ppl left the place..

Well, I didn't take it to heart, but some girls were talking that you shouldn't make effort if it's like this, well buuhuu, stuff happens and it's just life, deal with it :D

But yeah, I took some photos of the beautiful sunset and of the bridge: Jätkänkynttilä.. Also you can see some photos of the lantern my group made :)