Showing posts with label dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dog. Show all posts

Monday, April 8, 2013

Smile through the pain


Smile through the pain. This is how I've been feeling these last couple of days. While the sky is falling down on me (for absolutely no good reason at all, just to make things even more confusing), I still have to try to be social, polite and smile. Gladly, these days pass eventually, and gladly, I have been blessed with very understanding bunch of friends, so the most harm was really only done for myself.

Yesterday I had the privilege and honor to meet this lovely lady called Sonja. What at first seemed like a cruel joke on Mother Earth's behalf, turned out to be a good thing for the photos - the sucky sucky cold and snowy weather. Just when I'd thought that the model-freezing-days were behind me already. Oh well, Sonja was a trooper and took it like a girl dressed as a clown in the downtown! It's always pure awesomeness to meet people who just don't give a damn about what the surrounding world thinks of them, and then just make the best of it. All glory to Sonja also for coming up with the concept, wardrobe and the make-up!

I think this set is my all-time favorite so far, especially the head-shots. It's nice to be this proud of myself for once, and I think I deserve to be, as I'm usually way too critical of everything concerning me, myself and I.     


Friday, March 22, 2013

My baby through Lensbaby

I think I've been suffering from gear-envy these past few days, as I've read how a blogger I follow has bought herself a Canon EOS 60D and my dear friend got herself a 5D mk II after her old and faithful camera body died last week. 

Well, last night I was watching a video about a fashion shoot shot with a Lensbaby, and within 5 minutes or so I was in my car, on my way to buy myself a Lensbaby Composer. I spent the rest of the night annoying my dog with it, and I'm totally in love! I can't wait to shoot some portraits with it...

In the meanwhile, here's Severus. :)

The first shot I took, and instantly fell in love.
A slightly suspicious little dog...
Puppy sleep

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Niina & Hilma

Last week I got my friend Niina and her dog Hilma in front of my camera. Hilma has now moved to another home, and Niina wanted some photos of her. This was my first time shooting animal portraits in a studio environment and I'm quite pleased with the results, even though my Photoshop wasn't really agreeing with me when I was working on some of these. Anyways, here's Hilma and Niina. :)



Sunday, December 23, 2012

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Sanni vol. 1

I had a wonderful photoshoot with Sanni and Masi today! I certainly can't complain that I get to spend my time taking amazing pics (if I may say so myself) of such amazing creatures. :) More coming up tomorrow.

I think this one might be the best shot I've taken to the date.

And somehow the roles were switched at one point and I ended up on "the wrong side" of the camera. :)


Monday, February 13, 2012

Sanni & Masi

I had Sanni come over yesterday with her dog, Masi, and I got to practice this "home studio" lighting stuff some more. I have to say, I did learn a lot with not having to be both the photographer and the model. Lighting is still hard and there are some photos in this set, that don't have it perfectly right, but I did my best. In the future, I should also remember to keep a brighter light on while shooting, so the models' pupils won't be the size of a plate in the pictures. ;) The Canon EOS Utility software turned out to be really useful as Sanni got to view the photos with me on my coputer display as I took them. We had loads of fun, and even though I still have tons more to learn even with the basics, I think these turned out really good. Sanni and Masi were awesome models and I'm sure we'll be doing more photo shoots in the future. :)

Anyways, enjoy and let me know what you think! 

First we just took some basic headshots.
And then Masi took the stage.
I think this is my favorite of all of these. 
I used Sanni also as a canvas as I painted her face. 
And last but not least, Masi took the stage all for himself.