Portrait of a politician
Yesterday I shot a set of pictures for the home page of Hannu Pahajoki who is a candidate in a municipal election. Here’s a portraittaken of Hannu by the party, which I assume is used in their own advertisements. That particular picture had me tearing off my hair and reminds of all the stereotypes of a stuffed old politician (which my father is not 
. So we needed something a little more youthful and refreshing.
The Lutakko area and surroundings of the hightech Innova building in Jyväskylä, with the autumn colours and a traditional red brick industrial buildings, served as an excellent surroundings to present my father, who teaches building branch (construction) in a vocational school, in a more youthful setting. I attached the Sigma 24-60/2.8, ordered very cheap from the US, to my trusty Pentax K10D. The Sigma has not seen a lot of action yet, but this time the lens presented it’s best qualities in the great autumn light. I’m very satisfied with the pictures.
Image processing is made with a trial version of Aperture, which has convinced me of the excellence of the software so throughly that I will probably have to buy the license. For most of the pictures, the processing meant only straightening the horizon, with a few pictures needing some detail dug out from the shadows, due to the large light differences. A reflector alone would have made couple of the good pictures even greater.
The sun was already low, so the we had to search for spots among the high buildings, where we had enough light to shoot. The ideas for the pictures came largely from the model, and I didn’t need to give almost any directions at all.
In addition to the Lutakko area, we shot on the shore of the Lake Jyväsjärvi in Kylmänoro.
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Tags: hannu, kunnallisvaalit, syksy
