..well I really didn’t go, but he did. Because he is a fisherman. Oh how I wish that I could have moved more while shooting.. the boat was really small and even though I had a 14mm lens on I couldn’t take any broader views while we were traveling - or than I would have had to swim, and that wouldn’t have been a good idea :D I already almost fell into the water couple of times :P
Arman Alizad kept a one night style course at Kankaanpää in May. I stopped him for a few shots at the airport. Too bad that I couldn’t take the shots where the plane was.. that was strictly forbidden. The journalist wanted the shot to have some element that tells it’s taken at an airport because of Armans traveling show. I like the first shot best, it has the feeling I wanted it to have. Of course I wanted to take some not so serious shots too, but they didn’t work out that well.
Anyway, when taking the first shot I couldn’t see much from the camera viewfinder - or screen - the (back)light was so hard. I’m happy that at least in this shot the flash was just right. His glasses were pretty damn reflecting too and that ruined many shots. All in all I’m happy that I could get at least some shots. I was a bit nervous right before the shoot because I turned out that I couldn’t do the airplane thing I had planned to do. Luckily Arman was really nice and polite - even though he was in a hurry and I really didn’t know what I was doing :D
Yep, the donkeys are back to Kirjuri for the summer. They were soooo cute! Especially Ahaa, the little one.. he was born in Janyary, if I remember correctly :)
I’ll keep this entry short because I need to get some sleep. But with the donkey pics the ice has been broken so I just might start posting more often!
Today I took a few shots to add a local flavor to a story that comes from elsewhere. The story is about swine influenza. From what I heard today it seems like the local hospital has prepared for it well enough. Truth to be told I haven’t really been interested in the whole thing at all.. There’s always some influenza troubling people. It’s like when you add a word (like swine) before the word influenza, it becomes spooky and mass hysteria is guaranteed. I’m probably too uninterested for my own good but feels like there’s a lot more serious problems a lot closer all the time.
The shots were taken pretty fast. Not much to gripe about them :D The doctor and the nurse were both real nice and helpful. She even put on the mask and stuff just for me :)
Viksu Varis opened the summer season for kids at Kirjuri last Thursday. I had never seen Viksu before, and I was totally surprised how popular he is.. Kids were going crazy when he came out! And the things doesn’t even talk. And he is there at his “nest” every day during the summer at certain times. What a summer job :D Well it can’t be the same person in there every day but stil.. quite a job!
I had fun shooting this assignment and the writer was an easy going nice guy. Sun was shining and everyone was having a good time. Pics came out well enough and I got to eat soft ice while walking back to office :) The above shots are in the web gallery of Satakunnan Kansa.
I wonder what tildaus is in english.. sewing in tilda style maybe? I shot these women with their cute handmade thingies in a hurry last week. First I didn’t have anything to do and than I had to be in several places at the same time. And the fact that I didn’t find the right place right away doesn’t help either. From now on I’m gonna have our navigator in my camera bag on all gigs :D Not much to say about these photography wise. I had a nice time, even though I had to do everything a little too fast :P
I didn’t mind working at first of May. The weather was gorgeous and I got to be outdoors among people who celebrated vappu most of the day. All the people I met were having a great time and didn’t mind being photographed. Hard sunlight made the shooting challenging, there were times when I couldn’t see a thing from the camera screen, but that wasn’t too big a problem.
Shooting the students getting wet was most challenging of the vappu gigs since I had to switch from direct sunlight to direct backlight in only moments. I’m not too fast yet in adjusting everything (aperture, shutter speed, flash strenght) at the same time. And I tried not to get soaked while doing that. I would have liked to get better shots (more interesting angles or something) from the process but these are what I could come up with. I think the shots are ok, not perfect but ok :) And it really was a nice day :)
I planted three of the five tomatoes to bigger jars yesterday. I would have planted all of them but I didn’t have enough big jars. I hope that the ones I had are big enough.. I’m like a child with this thing.. I’m really excited about every change and phase and I don’t know anything but it doesn’t slow me down :)
I’m not sure, but I think that I saw first flower buds in some of the tomatoes today. Very very small buds but still buds! Or so I hope :D Correct me if I’m wrong..
Milla gave me two name tags that I can stick in the jars. They have a small blackboard on them and I wrote Tomaatti (tomato) there with chalk. So cute! I hope to find tags like that from Pori too so I can put them on my basil, salad, parsley etc :)
First time for everything.. this time for me working on first of May. It was nice though, the gigs were ok and the weather was wonderful and I got to be outside a lot. This first gig was about Jani Sievinen giving the main speech at the SDP vappu festivities at Pori market place. I’m not into politics, but it was nice to be there and try to take different kind of images. I think I did well enough :) Although I have to say that I’m not happy about the image they chose to put in the paper.. stupid choice if you ask me. But no one does so..
It was nice to shoot these gigs outside for a change. Though I find it somewhat challenging to shoot in hard sunlight. One needs to adjust everything all the time. Well not everything.. just the flash and aperture. Or that’s what I do. Not that these really were challenging at all, the other gig that I did was. But those I’ll post later. Or something. Now I need some sleep. I’m not making sense anymore :D
