I don't know what it is with Onerva, I shoot with her way too much. Soon this website will be as much about her modelling skills as it will be about my photography but I just can't help it. She's such a wonderful model and a really creative person. Combine those two things and magic, like literal magic happens.
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi
Basically what happened was Onerva and I wanted to meet up in the summer to discuss some future creative projects, chill a little and as it turns out have a small photo-shoot. I took the ship to Helsinki and voila, re-united again. We went for a very high fashion kind of look, I'm really happy with the results. It's again something that I haven't really done a lot of before, I mean I've done a ton of fashion shoots but this one feels different to me, it has this vibe to it which I haven't really come across in any of my other photo-shoots. I love that, I mean even though I really love photography - doing the same style of shoots over and over again would get really boring.
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins
I'm going to be honest with you, I didn't think I'd get as many good shots from this shoot as I did. Creating a great image I think is about 3 aspects of a shoot, preparation, actual shooting and post production. Whenever you screw up one of those things you have to put in more work on the other two to balance it out. Preparation for this shoot was basically zero. Onerva took care of the outfits and locations and we just went. On the shoot I was still quite tired so even though I think I did a decent job, I've definitely been more active on shoots. That leaves post production. To put it simply, it made these photos come to life, it made these photos come from good, to great. Have a look at this before & after screenshot for example.
Before & After - the power of colour.
To be honest with you, the editing isn't that heavy. It's simply colour work, a little bit more in-depth colour work than normal but just colour work nevertheless. It goes to show though ow important colour is, it can really be the difference between an image which is bland and not too eye catching or an image which looks powerful and creates emotion in the viewer. I'll leave you now with one last shot of Onerva.
"The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live." - Leo F. Buscaglia