Online Photography – Konsta Punkka

The photo being examined can be found here.

Who is the practitioner (what is their Instagram handle?) and when were they practicing?
Konsta Punkka (@kpunkka), a 23 year old Finnish wildlife and landscape photographer. Konsta bought his first DLSR at 17 years old and began photographing his friends skateboarding and local bands. It was only after awhile that he began to really take an interest in wildlife photography, particularly focused on the local wildlife in Finland.

He talks a little about himself and his passion for wildlife photography here.

With the photo you are examining when was it produced?
It was produced on July 28, 2018 during “the aftermath of the blood moon”. He was in Northern Norway at the time almost missed it, but managed to take this shot before the moon went down for the day.

How was the photo authored and published?
This photo would have been taken on a DLSR of some sort (he often uses Nikon and sometimes Olympus cameras), however there isn’t a way of being sure of what the exact camera was or what editing software was used. Interestingly, I found a YouTube video that gives a Lightroom tutorial on how to make your photos look like Punkka’s here. Whether Punkka actually uses Lightroom I’m not sure, but I found it an interesting point that someone felt that he had a distinct enough editing tone to make a tutorial on how to replicate it.
This photo was published only on his Instagram page @kpunkka.

How was the photo distributed?
This photo was only distributed through the Instagram page, however this isn’t the case for a lot of his photos. As outlined on his website, Punkka often collaborates with or does work for various companies such as National Geographic, Greenpeace, ICOS, Sony, Huawei Smartphones, OnePlus, Nikon, SanDisk, Volvo, Adobe, Olympus, Icelandair, 66North, Yleisradio, Visit Switzerland, and Visit Canary Islands. Certain photos will also be published by media publications that contact him and thus will be distributed that way as well, so his Instagram is a mixture of commissioned photos that will be published and distributed elsewhere and photos just for his Instagram.
An example of him doing commissioned work can be found here, as he went to Namibia with a group of other photographers sponsored by Olympus.
This may change however when, as he mentions in the interview linked above, he publishes a book of his work and will therefore diversify the distribution of some of his photos.

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