Last August I had the honor to shoot the wedding of Niki and Tiia. Tiia’s hair and makeup was done at Kauneushoitola Säihke. Some of the photos from Säihke are now available at Säihke’s facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233859949996146.50221.129247780457364&type=1
Our own ghost and fairy had a fun night in front of the camera yesterday. Please enjoy the rest of the set at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-10-02+Naamiaispotretteja+kotona/
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The kids were playing on our bed. The white bed cover and the white wall provided a good background for some high-key shots. The background is lit with two Nikon SB28s and the subjects are lit with one bare Nikon SB80 reflected from the white wall behind camera, providing almost shadow less results.
Today was a beautiful autumn day, the sun was shining and it was +15C. In the afternoon we decided to go out and take some autumn portraits. So we took out a rake and collected almost all of the fallen leaves we could find and got to work.
The complete set of photos is at http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-10-01+Syksypotretteja/ .
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These shots are taken with one large (~40x100cm) reflector to give some fill light. For the first few shots I used the golden cloth on the reflector and the rest of the set was taken with a silver cloth on the reflector. The lens used was my Nikkor 50/1.4. To keep the lighting stable I shoot fully manual.
We have been biking quite a lot on the roads with Ode. As he is only three, I wasn’t expecting him to be mountain biking for the next few years. I was proven wrong yesterday! He insisted that I would take him to the local trails. I was expecting a bike pushing journey, but it turned out that he was really able to ride the trails! And today we had to go again. This time we had Odes buddy Kasper along. The kids mountain biked for one hour!! The rest of the shots from the trip: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-25+Fillarointia+Oden+ja+Kasperin+kanssa/
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I had my camera with Nikkor 85/1.8 lens along. The weather was quite cloudy, so it was pretty dark in the forest. That’s the reason I took along the 85/1.8 lens. There was no point in taking any flashes etc. along, as the reason for this trip was to mountain bike, not take photographs 🙂
My sister plays ultimate and we have been planning to take some shots. Finally we were able to organize the photo shoot today. We had altogether three players and I was taking photos. The place is located near Tapiola, called Otsolahti. The location was chosen because it is the girls training ground. I was pretty satisfied with the results. All of the photos are at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-18+Aino+ultimate/
Thanks again for your extra effort girls!!! I really appreciate it!
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All photos are taken with three flashes. Two bare SB28s acting as rim lights and one SB80 through an umbrella with a 1/4 CTO gel as key. We got there about 45min before sunset, so the whole time ambient light was changing and it was bit of a challenge to adjust to the changing light.
For these shots I used my 50-150/2.8 Sigma and Tokina 12-24/4.
Yesterday we had a good windy day. I got a chance to get a few quick shots of Henkka windsurfing. The reason I was not in water windsurfing myself was that my own boom broke at Melkki (about 1km southeast of Lauttasaari) and I had to swim back in the 10-15m/s wind pulling my gear behind me. Lesson: Never buy a used boom! 🙂
Unfortunately it was already so late when I finally got back ashore and got my camera out that Henkka was also finishing. I did not get a any shots of his back or front loops….sorry about that! We agreed to do a photo shoot during this autumn to get those on camera. So watch this space in the future.
The rest of the few photos are at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-14+Surffausta+Larussa/
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Nothing special here, I just quickly got my Sigma 50-150/2.8 and snapped a few shots before Henkka finshed.
As my appearance has changed a little, I decided to take a self portrait for work to be used on the web site etc. I would like people to be able to recognize me from the photo. 🙂
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The photo was taken with a remote controller. The camera was on a tripod and I had set the focus manually.
I had one shoot through umbrella as key light and two flashes to give light to the back ground. Kept it super simple.
Future Vilant employee….IIsa, 5 weeks.
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The photo is taken with Nikkor 50/1.4 with on camera flash (TTL) bounced from the ceiling.
Niki ja Tiia vihittiin ihanan lämpimässä kesäsäässä 27.8.2011. Kiitos aivan mahtavista juhlista!
Häät esitettynä kuvien muodossa: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/