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Yesterday I met a lovely wedding couple Kaarin and Ronald with their young son in Helsinki City Finland. They are getting married 4th of July 2009. Last Thursday we had a pre-wedding shooting, and a very nice talk. They are a very nice couple, and I’m really looking forward to do theirs wedding.
Kaarina & Ronald – Images by Robert Hammar
Yesterday I started to work on a new website for my photography work. I wanted to have a place where I can show my work. Also a marketplace and a website that where it is easy for my clients to access their pictures. PhotoShelter give a great solution for photographers. They say that it’s easy to get started but it took some time to figure out how everything works. The website is not ready, it is still some work to do, but anyway it’s working. I have to upload some more pictures. Link to the new website.
Picture below is a shot from last wedding. I used three Canon Speedlite 580EX II, triggered with Pocket Wizards. The shot was taken in a office building of an insurance company in Helsinki City. More pictures in my previous post.
I’m back from my last wedding in Helsinki Finland. I had a wedding shooting with Laura and Niko at the Old Church of Helsinki Finland. One of the last photos of the bride couple came out pretty well, or what do you think? More to see at my new website. Comming soon.
A few years ago, I took portraits of Kreeta. She would use the pictures in a model portfolio. The picture below, I took it near the Railway Square (in Swedish Järnvägstorget, in Finnish Rautatientori) in central Helsinki, Finland. At first, we stood on the opposite side of the tunnel once before this picture was taken. But then I saw the light pouring in from a window above, which separated the shadow and a dark frame appeared. Kreeta placed herself in context and on the opposite side of her, I placed a reflector screen to light up the shadow side of her. I took the picture with my Canon EOS 5D.
In my portrait course I teach how I think when I take my portraits. The course is available only in Swedish. Next start for the course “Ta kontroll över ditt porträttfoto!” is 4 February, check it out.
I took some portrait of the ZebraFish rock bands members today. ZebraFish are from Helsinki of Finland and founded by Jouni. Here is one of them, but there are still more to come when they are four in the band.
Below a picture of the band leader Jouni Porio.
I was privileged to participate as a wedding photographer last Saturday 3 January at a wonderfully beautiful Finnish American winter wedding here in Vantaa in Finland. In end of December I took some portrait photographs of the wedding couple Sanna and Ryan and daughter in the center of Helsinki. See previous posts.
Weddings was held in our Helsinge church, in Finnish Pyhän Laurin kirkko, which is located close to my children’s school, Helsinge Kyrkoby school. Wedding party was at Kulosaaren Casino, in Swedish Brändö Casino, in Helsinki. It is very nice place with good food and close to the sea. We had our wedding celebration in the same place in summer 1997.
Many thanks to the bridal couple are true and Ryan and also to the photographer Johan Rosén, who helped me with the wedding shooting during a cold winter day. Finally, I wish good luck with the move to the USA.
Det är snart två år sedan jag fotograferade Petra i en gammal lägenhet i Helsingfors centrum här i Finland en dag i februari 2007. Samma dag som jag fotograferade Petra hade hon sin 18-årsdag, och nu två år senare är hon tjugo år gammal. Det går tydligen bra för Petra med olika fotojobb, och jag hoppas att det kan bli fler gånger som vi fotar tillsammans. För det är en väldigt duktig och trevlig tjej.
Ljussättningen var väldigt enkel. Har du deltagit i en utav mina workshop i blixtfotografering så ser du rätt snabbt hur jag hade ljussatt scenen.
God Jul och en riktig skön julhelg önskar vi alla till er alla. Straxt bär det av till Stockholm på en julkryssning från Helsingfors med Silja Line. Det gjorde att vi hade julklappsutdelningen redan på morgonen.
Merry Christmas and have a real nice Christmas, we wish all of you all. Soon it bears off to Stockholm on a Christmas cruise from Helsinki with Silja Line. It was why that we shared Christmas present already in the morning.
A couple of weeks ago, I met the couple Sanna and Ryan with their daughter Saana. Sanna and Ryan met each other at the American Embassy in Helsinki, Finland. Now, however, Ryan is stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Delhi in India.
The couple will get married in a church near where our family live in Vantaa. Helsinge Church adjacent to my daughters school. The bridal couple’s celebration will be held in Kulosaaren, Brändö, Casino in Helsinki. I and my wife had our party in the same place for now nearing 12 years ago.
Autumn has been fraught with a lot of work and it has taken longer than usual to get the pictures ready. Now finally the images are ready from Eevas and Lasse wedding as I did on October 18. There were many wonderful images taken at their lovely wedding day. Below is a selection of the over 500 photos from their wedding gallery. To see the rest of their wedding in Helsinki, you can follow the link. The marriage was in the Kallio Church, in Swedish Berghälls kyrka, in Helsinki, Finland.
Yesterday I had a wedding shooting in Helsinki City Finland, and came home rather late in the night. Here are couple of wedding pictures I took from the wedding. Soon I’m leaving for Göteborg in Sweden and not for wedding phootgraphy but I will have a workhop in flash photography. I thought this pictures fit in well for the post of today.
Take care and see you in the afternoon everybody who is attending to the workshop.
Eeva & Lasse are getting married tomorrow in Helsinki City and I will shoot their wedding. I met this wonderful couple in the end of June this summer. We took some photos so we could get to know each other and they could also learn how I work. In same time they got some lovely engagement pictures and one of the photos ended up on their web page. I’m looking forward to be their wedding photographer for tomorrow.
A month ago in July I met Marianne and Jaakku who lives in San Francisco USA in Kaivopuisto, Brunnsparken, in Helsinki City to take their engagements portraits. They are a wonderful couple and couple of days after the pre-wedding shooting I covered their wedding in Porvoo, Borgå, east to Helsinki.
Marianne and Jaakko 21th of July 2008
Last picture was taken with a single flash off camera to my right. The Canon 580EX II triggered with one Pocket Wizard.
Our journey began from Helsinki on Monday morning with a trip to Stockholm via Tallin Estonia. We had a short stop in Estonia before it went off to Stockholm by boat with Tallink Romantika. During our stay in Tallin me and my girls had lunch at restaurant Peppersack where we were served by Liina, see the picture below.
I’ve got a hair cut by another Liina in Tallin right next to the city’s old town wall. My oldest daughter holds up a diffuser, camera right, to soften the harsh sun light.
One of Europe’s largest Orthodox churches can be found in Helsinki, Finland. Uspenski Cathedral is built during the Russian occupation (1809-1917) in 1868 and designed by the Russian architect Gornostajev.What is interesting about Orthodox churches is that there are no desks to sit on. Then when I photographed a finnish Orthodox wedding ceremony in Helsinki, I could move around freely among guests and the bridal couple.
Near the cathedral is Helsinki’s oldest Russian restaurant Bellevue founded in 1917.
I and my daughters visited the Sibelius park this evening and the Sibelius monument in the park. My idea was that I would get some good pictures of the monument, but I did not find a good camera angle so I will have an other try. I think I return at a sunrise instead.
Near the park is a pleasant cafe in Edsviken, Töölö. Café Regatta, which is quoted in today’s Hufvudstadsbladet is a quite incredible hospitable cafe. Unfortunately, I was out of cash so we may instead visit the place at a different time, even if we were offered to pay at a later date. Quite remarkable pleasant 115-years old place that offers everything from sausages bbq to a cup of coffee. Finally, I give a rose to the entire staff of café for the warm welcome.
What are guys doing an hour before the wedding ceremony? Why not get together and have a glass of champagne or two at Hotel Kämp in Helsinki City Finland. Last Saturday me and my assistant Johan Rosén started with the bride groom Kalle at the hotel before the wedding Ceremony at Johanneksen Church.
Last Saturday I photographed a wedding for a fantastic fine bridal couple Annukka and Kalle both residing in Helsinki, Finland. It was throughout the 90 guests invited to the wedding and celebration held at the Yacht Club NJK near the Port of Helsinki.
It really paid off to have two photographers at the wedding and the couple can enjoy more pictures and some pictures with some cool effects like in this post of the first wedding dance.
My assistant and photographer Johan Rosén was behind the wedding the couple in this picture, and he hold up two flashes and a camera that was mounted on a tripod. Two Canon Speedlite 580EX II were connected to a Pocket Wizard (receiver). In the same bracket as the flashes was mounted, we had also mounted a Canon 20D with a 28 mm Canon f/1.8 lens. The camera, in turn, was linked to the same PW as the flash lights. (The flashes output set to 1 / 64 and the camera to f / 5.6 to ISO 800.)
On the opposite side of the flash setup, I stood and photographed. On my Canon 5D, I had a Pocket Wizard mounted, and while I took a pictures I also triggered both flashes and also the camera in same time.
It was the first time I tried this solution but we took some test shots the evening before the wedding shooting so we know that it would work. It was also possible do this kind of setups when you are not alone during the weddingday.
Come back soon to my blog and check out for more posts and photos of the couple from other occasions.
Last Sunday, photographer Johan Rosén and I met wedding couple Eeva and Lasse in Kaivopuisto (Brunnsparken) in Helsinki, Finland. We went through their plans for the upcoming wedding on October 18. They will be married in Kallio Church. The church was completed in 1912, and the composer Jean Sibelius has composed the music for the bells.
We took couple of pre-wedding shots in a cloudy summer afternoon. Photographer Johan Rosén assisted me with the light of the flash, two Canon Speedlite 580EX II mounted on a tripod. The flash light helps to get sunlight feeling.
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