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Hellmet returns with software update. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Tougher Than a Lion

 

Army themed (inspiration from Rihanna's music video) shoot with Henri. Sunny October day, just perfect weather for shooting in gravel pit. After sun was setting, day continued inside the studio. More photos and BTS shots after the jump.

another workshop

Arranged another workshop with Sky. Great weather to shoot outside and talented people attending to take photos and participate creating the setups.

One workshop more planned for the summer. Get the latest information about upcoming workshops/get together from my Facebook page.

Laura

Did some photos for Laura as she wanted new images for model competition. This was also good test to use ringflash as fill light.

Roosa

First studio photos from this year.

Gwendolyne

 Rainy & dark December, so time for another set of photos from autumn.

Jodie

This photo was taken at the early November when autumn was switching to winter but still some leaves left in the ground to give color. I have been recently trying to use just the ambient light for outdoor photos. It makes working faster as you can just focus on taking photos and not carrying or setting up lights. Colder the weather gets, less time you want to spend with tweaking the lights. For this photo ISO was pushed to 400 and VR from 70-200mm helped to keep the shot sharp.

Pin-up

Dr. Sketchy

Promo photo for Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School Suomi.
Models: Tin Ker Bell and Jackie O'Lantern. Small berets by Molla Mills. Drawings by Aiju Salminen.

Studio session with flowers

From the first studio shoot with D700. Taken with AF-D 85mm/f1.4. 85mm with FX-body feels little bit too short for this kind of tighly framed headshots. So I need to start using more of my longer lenses (100mm macro & 70-200mm) for studio photography.

Post apocalyptic talk show

This time Hellmet hosting the post apocalyptic talk show

Stala & So.

Promo photos & EP cover photos for Stala & So. band. Setup: Pro-7B with 3x4' softbox camera right. Taken about 2 stops from maximum power to allow overpowering partially the ambient and give almost instant recycle times. Which helps when taking group photos. You don't want to miss moments of good expressions.

When one teaches, two learn

Around two weeks ago I spent one evening teaching flash photography basics for friends. 1-3 lights setups using everything from vintage Nikon speedlights (SB-24) to battery powered heavy duty lights (Pro-7b). Why to use certain modifiers, how to guide model, what to do when wind destroys gear (like it did on the workshop) etc. Teaching is interesting way to rethink why you do the lighting certain ways and also get some new ideas from the people participating workshops.

Post apocalyptic gang

From the post apocalyptic themed shoot with Jamo. See more photos after the link