Julius Koivistoinen is a young Finnish student passioned about photography. He's mostly self taught but has already been working as a photographer for a couple of magazines published not only in Finland but worldwide, and his photos have reached to become the cover shots of those magazines for plenty of times. In addition to commercial work, he loves to work on personal projects and with smaller clients. Currently he's available for assignments near Helsinki and Lahti.
Be sure to visit his portfolio and Flickr page!

A confession

  • April 23, 2008 7:16 pm

Have you ever wondered why some photography are lacking of the “wow”-factor and look flat while other shots may look so great that you drop? Maybe some photos look so amazing that you can’t even believe they’re real. Well that may be just the case…

Machine gunners

(click the image for additional info about it)

I’d like to share a series of images where you can see the development of one of my photos (above) from the original file to the image which hopefully does indeed have some of that “woahness”. My post processing starts off with Lightroom’s basic brightness, color and contrast adjustments and after that I do dodging, burning, cloning etc. using Photoshop. It may sound pretty simple – and it is – but I think it really makes the difference!

What do you think?

Portrait exercise

  • April 19, 2008 11:24 pm

Got my first umbrella – a silver bounce umbrella – and this is me testing it for my first time. Thanks to lioncat and my lovely sister for hanging around in front of the camera.

Me (Julius) and Jorma (lioncat)

Canon EOS 350D, 2x430EX, ST-E2 (see the lighting setup below)
1/200 sec, f/5.0, ISO 100

Lighting setup for my portrait exercises

Shooting airsoft

  • April 7, 2008 11:15 pm

It has been so long since I last time was photographing airsoft so I was very excited about it! Even though there were only Janne, Väinö and I.

This time I was also really inspired by James Nachtwey’s war photography (link) and I tried really hard to archieve somewhat same feeling to some of my shots as he does. I also got to shoot with Väinö’s old film camera which was very exciting too. Those pics will be avaible later though…

Oh, and by the way. Piu piu piu is like pow pow pow in English. ;)

Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L, 430EX, ST-E2

Panning exercise

  • April 3, 2008 1:40 pm

Decided to try some extreme panning: APS-C sensor (1.6x factor) + 300mm lens = 480mm. Also tried a post processing method in Lightroom which resembles the Dave Hill look a bit.

Canon EOS 350D, EF 90-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM, shutter speed 1/60 sec, camera on tripod

Panning

Tuhertelua

  • April 1, 2008 6:23 pm

Pitkästä aikaa tuli taas hinku sotkea jotain piirustuspöytäni kautta tietokoneruudulle.

Pottunenää piirtäessä olisin mielelläni pysähtynyt jo luonnosmaiseen viivapiirustukseen… Kehityksen kannalta on kuitenkin olennaista tulla ulos omalta mukavuusalueelta, mikä merkitsi minulle kuvan värittämistä. Ah ja oih tätä luomisen tuskaa!

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