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!

www.Julious.fi: Maybe the biggest update yet

  • October 14, 2010 8:21 pm

This is the last post on this domain – Please continue reading on Julious.fi

First off, be sure you read the whole article, because it contains a glance on the evolution of Julious.fi website and its ancestors. All the way to the year 2003!

The evolution of my personal websites!

A month ago I wrote about updating this blog to the point there was coming smoke out of my ears. As a perfectionist, I anyhow couldn’t settle with just a pretty writing platform – I lusted for even more things to do.

Now I’m finishing a two months’ work of redesigning, testing and adding new content on my portfolios and photo galleries. The functionality of them both is now revised also so that they’d be up to date with the newest trends of web-designing. Big and hi-quality images (HUGE! in the portfolios, actually), minimalistic overlay and easy navigation – those are the classic elements one can rely on.

Julious.fi website on iPhone

Of course, the page has to work on a mobile phone too, thus it has no Adobe Flash candies of any sort (Candies ain’t good for your health!). So pretty effects like scrolling descriptions and automatically resizing photos were achieved by using MooTools and jQuery.

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And now as promised, I’ll show you my former homepages backing all the way to my second version called “MY GREAT HOMEPAGE!!!!!111 V.2.00″ … eh.

I know, the first two versions are quite childish. But how many of you had done a website from scratch at the age of 12 anyway? ;)

Jump into the designs!

Woah, I’m even bigger now!

  • August 24, 2010 9:07 pm

“I’m even bigger now … A lot!”

That’s what my blog said today as I upgraded it to support even bigger images. At the mean time it ment a big headache to me, as change means work, and what one hasn’t been doing for a long time means relearning on top of that… But were here to learn anyway, aren’t we?

This is what the blog looked like before and the same image, which is as small as the former images were, shows from how tiny pictures did one actually have to suffer. And when I just compare it with the capability of this blog today, the huge amount (30 hours+) of work and confusion was definitely worth it!

Follow the red arrows downwards and maybe you’ll agree with me. :)

Photo: Kevin Wilbur, of Tucson Balloon Rides supervises the filling of his hot air balloon before a sunrise flight Easter morning Sunday, April 4, 2010 in Tucson. Arizona. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) (link)

This blog is still powered by WordPress so you may ask: “What is that theme used on this site?”

In that my answer is that I designed the layout myself, but I indeed had to use some help too. After the design was completed on Photoshop I started searching a WordPress theme which would match with mine. I chose to build my blog on top of a theme called ZenLite by Black Widow.

The reason for this was its single column design, which is a perfect solution for me. Instead of having a menu for navigation on the side of the page, this way the site supports showing bigger imagery as well as works with every monitor resolution commonly used on websurfers’ (that means You) computers.

Because this is a brand new and a unique design it of course may also have some bugs, which I haven’t noticed, in it. So please let me know if you come across with any! Thanks

Sidenote:

I have upgraded my website before for dozens of times but also have written about it twice. If you’re interested to know more, these articles found from this same blog’s archives may actually be worth a watch:

Street photography in Helsinki

  • September 11, 2008 11:30 pm

The photo above is one of many images from my today’s trip to the central Helsinki. (Read: A photo gallery containing these shots is under construction.) I restrained myself to use my EOS 350D DSLR and one lens, the new one, only… And oh boy what a combination it was!”
-Autumn is coming

New gallery is up. Enjoy! [Link]

To give you some idea how I managed to keep shooting for approximately two and a half hours in constant rain I posted some pictures of the DIY rain cover I did. See them under the link below. (Fun fact about those pics: Because I don’t have a second camera body the photos are taken through two mirrors.)

View slideshow
Street photography in Helsinki. By Julius Koivistoinen - juliusphoto.yhet.net

DIY rain cover of a plastic bag:

Who needs an expensive umbrella…

  • March 3, 2008 11:23 pm

…when you can use a simple sheet of paper as a diffuser? All you need is a rubber band, a small clamp and a sheet of white paper. Everything is easily fit into a single pocket, it is easy to setup and the results are a-m-a-z-i-n-g! Compared to the overall prize at least.

Ok, ok. I’m being cheap, but that’s what do-it-yourself is all about, isn’t it? ;)

DYI Diffuser - Sheet of paper

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