Jere Satamo

Gotta love these spontaneous moments when shooting getting readies. I like to shoot them, especially when having a lot of time and you can play with angles, compositions and other things. I wasn´t able to tell this dog that walk here, but it still came like ordered. Excellent setup with beautiful bridesmaids and gorgeous bride, taken at bride´s parent´s home near the venue.

First dance. So much happened before I shot this frame. Whole day was true rollercoaster. It started on the early morning, when the bride noticed that this dress do not fit at all. She had lost a lot of her weight on the last week and dress was made so fit. We had booked a lot of time for portraits, but we needed to use that time for repairing the dress. So outdoor daylight portraits were gone, but what was more important, we got a happy bride with fitted dress. Couple said after that day, that pictures were so good and all that drama about that big day was gone. Mission Happy Couple, accomplished.

Usually this kinda pics we are seeing when the ceremony is over and couple is coming out of the church. This actual moment was captured while there was going couple´s outrance of wedding party. The whole day was magical and we were shooting this day with my colleague who videographed the day. We spoke afterwards that we just felt like we were part of those regular wedding guests, and not vendors. Lovely day, very beautiful couple and one of the nicest outrance I´ve seen!

Why is it always the bride´s bouquet that they are throwing, why can it be something else? That was the idea about this picture when I thought about these throwing thingies. I needed to took few shots and then we got it. Usually the rings were in wrong position or something else that wouldn´t be so nicely balanced. It hasn´t always be rings laying on the bouquet or mirrored table, let´s try to get something new!

If I would chose any wider lens on this shot, there might be a rainbow visible on background. But I had to choose better angle so the old and crappy railway station is hidden and composed outside of this picture ;) This couple was so in love and I noticed from the early beginning, that this story is real and they are meant to be with each other. When we came to this location, it rained a lot and when we leaved, it rained again. So there was some high level forecast lord with us, thank you!

It was soooooo freezing and windy day. We went to local mountain, yes a true mountain with 30metres height :) We shot classical portraits and groups shots with bridesmaids and groomsmen. When we had to leave to church for the ceremony, I spotted this hill of mountain and asked couple to stay there. First they posed like a normal wedding couple but it didn´t seemed to be so special so I asked to pose so that they will look different sides. Then it just was something I´d liked to get and we nailed the shot. Thanks for so beautiful and nice couple, Iitu & Jaki!

This place was new to me and I haven´t visited there before. When we waited with groom bride to arrive, sun was shining and I was cursing about the hard light. Fortunately bride was almost 40mins late and the weather changed dramatically during that time, clouds came from somewhere and it threw very dramatic and gloomy mood above us. Right after bride arrived, we had so nice light and we were surrounded by tremendous clouds. Beautiful and lovely couple and despite we had very short time to shoot portraits before ceremony, we got superb set for them <3

I just felt love with this wedding set, venue was just perfect. It located at big farm, quite a far away from city centre. When we arrived there, first of all I spotted cows just walking around. The field behind fences was just perfect for the late night portraits. As usual, we ran with couple to chase the sun. We had only a couple of minutes to get setting sun to pictures and we made it! The moment was so hurry, but still, so effective that it surprised all of us. Thanks for the couple spending few minutes in a middle of wedding party to nail these shots! Stunning.