Magical stuff

So ! Today I was at Suomenlinna with my finnish photographer friends. It was a great day and I randomly decided to take a picture of my friend Jenny. Because the sea suddenly looked like the way I love it (I always photoshop my water picture with fog and stuff). 

And I took this picture:

I'm proud of it because it looks like my picture ! 

Even though I think it's important as an artist to be open minded and try different stuff, I'm so damn happy to have recognizable style ! I don't want to think about it too much, I want to keep on shooting with my heart and feelings. But it looks like they always take me to this kind of magical picture.

THAT'S what I wanna do.

And I want to mix it with fashion because as I said in the previous article, I love fashion like the stars above, I'll love till I'll die (yeah yeah dire straits yeah)

Tomorrow I'm gonna start a project I've been thinking about since I took this picture here 

Love is magic!

If you can love, you are pure.

Yep but the picture above is just a preview of what's coming. It will be big.

I hope they will look good as pictures, but if they don't, I don't care that much because it's all about the message.

I'm so excited!

Oh and look at my portfolio 

http://www.karina-boissonnier.com/portfolio

See ! 

...I'm tired...

Goodnight!

Silver and Gold

I still haven't found any nice "real" title for one of my latest photoseries :(

I can't actually remember where I got the idea from, but I wanted to paint my boyfriend in silver. Then I decided I wanted to paint myself in gold.

And use the studio.

Then I took pictures.

And this came out.

It really is a shame people don't like studio pictures as much as conceptual location pictures.

But,

I actually DON'T CARE at all, because in the end the person I want to shoot for is me and only me.

Of course, it's nice to know if people like my work. I just got more than 1000 fans on facebook and it felt kind of cool even though that's not the most important thing.

I should publish the others new photos I took in another blog post but I think it's better in only one article, I think.

SO SO SO,

I've been busy with all kind of photography work since I quit my last job, but I won't publish them because they are just.. work....

Here I publish stuff I do for myself and if it's client work, I publish it only if I really do like them.

Yeah whatever,

I participated in a creative sprint. Once a month you get a theme, a word, and you have to take a picture in 48h. This month the theme was secret, so I took a shot. I'm not proud at all :D But people seemed to like the picture more than my studio pictures. :< Of course!

Then I shot for Sirus. I so wanted to try male fashion. Because I LOVE fashion, but for a reason or another, I have never really tried..

Now I know for sure I want to shoot fashion (and of course conceptual ). But my dream would  be to make my own style and mix up fashion and magical conceptual. I would be aweeesome!

                                   

 

 

Hahaha

they are not well oganized because I don't know how to use blogspot correctly 8)

Photography camp 2013

So, once again I was at the photography summer camp that "nuoret valokuvaajat" (young photographers of finland) organized. Awesome as always. :)

I was quite inspired, and for the first time in a long time I took conceptual photos just the way I like them.

Now I'm feeling motivated again about photography and getting better.

I'm happy about my life right now, because all I have to care about is photography.

I decided to start a tumblr. :) I really wanted to have a place I could just put all my random nice pictures.

I also thought it would be awesome to do a photo diary. Taking pictures all the time really makes better in photography, and it's nice to have all memories saved. 

http://karinaboissonnier.tumblr.com/

Selfies and new studio set

So I got a few days ago a little studio kit. From my father as a birthday gift. 

It is awesome, I'm ready to get better with studio lights this summer! I'm too excited :D:d

I took two selfportraits, not so proud of them but it was a great exercise. I decided I'll shoot everyday! Like random stuff, and make my photography eye better and better and better.

I WANNA GET BETTER !

So here are today's photos.

Ninka.fi

I was supposed to write this article like forever ago, but I didn't find the time until now !

a few weeks ago I took some pictures for Ninka.fi . It was a great day :)

So this is the part 1 of the series, the rest will come one day in summer when we all will have the time (Nina, the model Kaisu and I.)

Lately I've been really busy. I moved to Helsinki (for summer)and started my new job at Verisure. I hated it so I quit a few days ago :D 

So, so, so I decided all I'd do all summer long will be PHOTOGRAPHY. Last week-end I shot a wedding, babies, familyportraits.. And I'm preparing a lot of personal projects.

I have SO MUCH PLANS in my head I'm going crazy but I'm the happiest person in the world.

I won't reveal everything I'm about to do, but I'm really going to do a lot of work this summer to get better.

Right now I'm looking for models in Helsinki. If you are interested, or you know someone who could be, just let me know !

Muutos - Change

Two weeks ago, my boyfriend Topi and I went to the studio to take some pictures of an idea I've had in mind for a few months.

It was really fun, throwing flour on our faces and syrup all over Topi's body. Sadly the syrup went in his eyes so he couldn't open his eyes at all :D for or all the shooting long..

Many told me "oh my god Karina, you take naked pictures of yourself!" Come oon... There is only my shoulders on the photos AND just to make you know, I actually have my pants on, and no straps bras. 

:)

So I took the pictures, yay it was fun, the series' title is "When two worlds become one" and it's kind of personal but, thats the pictures I'm using for our school's exhibition "Muutos" which means "Change".

The exhibition starts on friday (in two days) so if you read this article and you are in Finland, welcome!

https://www.facebook.com/events/603026353041078/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Here's the facebook event, if you're interested, all informations are there.

I've been so busy lately with job interviews, this exhibition and all ! I can't wait to calm down. Then I'll be able to do allllll the personal projects I have in mind. I'm so motivated and inspired !

Tomorrow I'll write a new article about another shooting.

By the way, I updated my website. Take a look ! http://www.karina-boissonnier.com/

Therapeutic selfportraits

So, I thought about talking about selfportraits today. More precisely about 

therapeutic selfportraits

.

What does it mean ? 

Well, it fixes you as soon as you take it ! :) No, not really, at least it depends on you and your problems. 

But let's say it's like talking about your problem to a good friend of yours.  You feel a lot better and released. 

But I can't talk about it like it would work for everyone, and every person has its one way of getting better and forgetting problems. 

Mine is taking a selfportrait. Why ? Because I can put my feelings on the table. "This is how it is." and I even use them to get a better image. (That's actually kind of fun," hey, i'm sad, that's so awesome i'll take a picture!") But yes when you use all of your feelings to take an image, it gets stronger. Because I think this is how arts work. With feelings. 

Why take a selfportrait ? Personally it's because the picture is getting so personal I would never use a model who could never know how I really feel so it's damn hard to get a great picture.

I don't know if therapeutic selfportrait is the right name to give to what I really want to talk about. It works only for sad or angry feelings, but not happy. 

But yeah, of course, I also use my happy feelings to take some pictures, it's an awesome way to show the world I'm happy, and also get all the feelings out of me, like exploding. Because when I'm happy, I'm so happy I want to do crazy things, and taking a picture is a perfect way of "exploding". 

Argh what the hell am I even writting.

The point is, taking personal selfportrait, therapeutic ones and "showing the world I'm happy" ones is something I have done for like one year, and I noticed it two months ago and decided to make a complete project of it. The most personal project I can think of. Revealing the pictures' meaning would mean I reveal my deepest secrets. :) But I thought I could name the project "My story" or something like that. That's something I could do all my life long like a diary.

And when I'll be old I'll look at all the pictures smiling and remembering everything. :D

But really, I love taking this kind of selfportraits when I'm down. I think it has something to do with my love for photography. I mean I think I'm a little crazy and I feel like photography is my best friend. Taking a therapeutic selfportrait makes me feel like I'm telling to photography my problems, and he listens to me and tells me everything is okay and offers me a picture I can be proud of.

Hey!

What the ..! That's my fever speaking, don't listen to it.

I can't deny these pictures are the ones I like to take the most.  Even if I'm under the stress, sad, sick, happy, busy, anything, I always take a pleasure shooting. And it never takes much. Usually I get the idea like *boum* suddenly, and then 5minutes later I'm taking the picture and then I photoshop it, aaand it's ready.

Weirdly all my best pictures are taken like this. Not prepared and fast.

Anyways, being sick made me some good. I'm even more motivated for stuff and I really can't wait to get healthy.  I'm gonna do so muchh ! School stuff, clean my room, personal projects, shopping, party hard and shit :D 

And I got so much new ideas for the future. New awesome goals. 

I started to feel sad about myself, I'm full of ambitious and ideas but I don't do anything to make them come true.

Then I realized I'm 18 years old. And I still study.

So I have to calm down.  

Why the hell am I always on a rush.

And why the hell am I writting stuff that doesn't make any sense, again ?

Doesn't matter. I kept you informed about what's going on. What I'm doing in photography right now.

Actually i haven't said everything. I started a portrait series one week ago. I'm going to take a picture of all my friends, and my family. :) I'll print and put them on my wall.

I'll make an article about it when I'll have at least 10 pictures.

I can't find anything else to say.

Even if I'm sure I forgot to say 75% of what I wanted to say about therapeutic selfportraits.

One day I'll make an awesome and REAL article about it. But not on this blog ... ;-)