Last year, hairdresser and “mad hatter” Hannu Viitala contacted me for an upcoming project. He wanted to submit work to Revlon´s Style Masters competition. I have done competition work for him before, so I was exited!  Same model, three different styles and looks, pictures in black and white! I said yes, of course. Especially when we had the best team I could think of. Last years winners were really cool, and most of the submits was of really high quality. I found the best model Krista Naumanen, whom I had worked with before, so I knew she was goin´to rock it! It took us 3 days to complete all the three looks,  it did not feel like work at all =)  I absolutely love these looks. Mirjam Lehtonen´s costumes are amazing and the make-up Tiina Lamberg made, is super intense.

Have a look

The first step was to enter the Finnish Style Masters competition, the winner will represent Finland in the international competition. Well, we did not win, we came second. still,  I´m very proud of us. We all gave it our best and I think it got us pretty far =)

In the first two pictures I´ve used strobes to get a clean and crisp look. I used strobes in the last shot as well, but I also wanted to shoot with constant light. There was something about the look in this shot that I loved, so for the last one, I chose the constant light pic instead of the strobes. I really wanted to show the details by not having strong contrast between light and shadow, so I had a silver umbrella for my main light and used a silver reflector to get rid of most shadows. The constant light pic, looks a bit different, since the technique wasn´t the same.

Here are some older competition work, made many years ago with Hannu =)