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Strange Days
Strange Days

This is the next cover for the Shaker magazine.

I wanted to take a cover, which would be more like a scenery than a cover with persons in it. I had planned to put the people on a picnic blanket in the middle so it wouldn't even be possible to recognize them. Unfortunately we live in Finland, so weather can and usually have something to say about these things. This time I understood by my own that we probably shouldn't have a beautiful autumn scenery for a late november issue.

The next thing I thought was to put them on a cliff in the middle of a sea. That way it wouldn't matter what time of the year it would be, because the sea looks 10 months a year just the same. That didn't work because I understood that it would take a lot of time to get the people to the place and out of the place.

The next thing I thought was to put people on a cliff on another place and photoshop there clouds all around them. That plan I prepared to shoot. I even checked out the exact place where I would stand and where they would stay. I prepared them to get umbrellas and wear good clothes as this day would be cold and rainy, like the weather man had said for a week. And we were all ready, but… Why there always have to be the but?

The morning came and it was beautiful and sunny. I mean really sunny the way there is almost never in Finland. And I was devastated. Not just because it would make the shoot more difficult, but because I was going to do my thing at 1 pm and the place I was going to stand was facing south! Usually I like to shoot against the sun, but never when the people are staying on a highest cliff and there is a large gorge between us so I couldn't put up any lights. And if I couldn't use lights, I couldn't have fill for them and they would be totally black or the sky would be totally white! So…

I ended up photographing at the same place (well I had to), but to another direction. I used sun as main light and only one studio flash as a fill light from down left. Then I went to my workroom and did everything in photoshop to make the scenery look unreal and weird. So here it is, I present you a not-so-much-scenery-but-a-strange-looking-cover.

And I like it.

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Taken on: October 27, 2010
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Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/8.0, 1/200 sec, 130mm, ISO 50 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Aperture: f/8.0
Exposure Time: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length: 130mm
ISO: 50
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Manual
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
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