“One more thing. There’s a new gallery of a skateboarding competition (SkateSM 08) coming up in the near future so stay tuned!”
-Still around here somewhere
The title says it all. Enjoy! 
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Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/2L USM, EF 50mm f/1.8 II, EF 90-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM, 430EX
“Skate SM miniramppi kisat järjestettiin Kiasman design minillä johon oli lisätty kaksi extensionia. Kisat hoiti kotiin Enis joka oli kuulemma juuri treenannut Espanjassa takapihan pooleja muutaman viikon ajan.
1. Enis Fazilov
2. Ville Mäkelä
3. Harri Puupponen”
-Suomen Rullalautaliitto RY
Eilen 5.9. jo 11. kerran järjestetty Nelosen ilotulitus, joka on samalla ilotulituksen Suomen mestaruuskilpailu, keräsi yli 100 000 katsojaa Töölönlahden liepeille Helsingissä. Kilpailuun osallistuivat Ilotulitus Oy, SkyStar, Tulitemestarit, JoHo Pyro ja Tähtiraketti, joista voittajaksi selvisi JoHo Pyro näyttävällä värishow’llaan. Kilpailijat esiintyivät samaisessa järjestyksessä.
Tässä ottamiani valokuvia kyseisestä tapahtumasta:
Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, EF 135mm f/2L USM, 430EX, ST-E2
Hi all! Long time no see.
For those who care, I apologise for neglecting this blog for such a tremendous amount of time, but let me explain myself…
First of all I’ve been out there living. On my summer holiday I travelled with Marja through the city of London exploring the urban culture and meeting new people for a week. Plus, there’s no London without a portion of fish and chips in an atmospheric pub! (There’s no photo of it though. Sorry!) We also enjoyed amazing local attractions in Saint Peterspurg while visiting my grandparents there and finished the whole package by going to Viljandi Folk Music Festival in the Southern Estonia. We were so dedicated to listening to music and dancing with Marja that we didn’t even take a camera with us. And that’s huge from us!
Here are some of our travelling photos from London and St. Petersburg:
Another reason for me not updating this blog has been work. I’ve been hired as photographer for three different magazines including Softaaja in which my work has been seen already previously. It’s been a wonderful opportunity for me to work in a studio and I have learned a lot! Many shots I have taken there are still waiting for their first publication in the magazines so you folks have to wait for a while for the newest pieces of my work. I’m pretty excited about them already.
Until then here’s some of my work for them:
I was shooting airsoft ages ago but didn’t link to the gallery from my blog. See the gallery from the link below: (Also, see how cool Väinö and his moustages look below.)
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One more thing. There’s a new gallery of a skateboarding competition (SkateSM 08) coming up in the near future so stay tuned! Here’s few teasers for you:
Oh, and I bought a new lens but I will tell more about it later! You may guess what it is by judging from the following photo. *tease* 
Over and out!
Note! More photos at Julious.fi -> WW2 Cover shoot (42 photos in total!)
Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L @ 37mm, 1/4000sec, f/9, ISO 1600 (for the grainy look)
Yup. Today we travelled back in time to the second World War as Airborne troops. I was the war photographer (as usually) because I don’t have anywhere near as cool gear as Tomi and Janne! And someone has to do the dirty work anyway.
Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L @ 17mm, 1/800sec, f/8, ISO 200
We were taking photos for Softaaja magazine so this is just a teaser because anything that may be published is kept secret for now.
Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L @ 17mm, 430EX, 1/1000sec, f/6.3, ISO 200
My second magazine cover ever was published in the 5th Softaaja of this year! See the cover itself in the photo below… You can see the original shot under it.
Ruostehauta
Some photos shot by me in a post apocalyptic airsoft game were published in the same issue of Softaaja. See all the 73 photos of Ruostehauta by clicking the link underneath the photo below or click here.
Gear used: Canon EOS 5D, Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, EF 90-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM
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31.5.2008 oli monelle ilon päivä. Kyseisenä päivänä lakitettiin kevään 2008 uudet ylioppilaat kaikkialla Suomessa. Itse olin tällöin Helsingin kaupunginteatterissa todistamassa Kallion lukion lakkiaisia, joka oli tapahtumana hyvin onnistunut puheineen ja musiikkiesityksineen.
Katso ottamiani kuvia lakkiaisista alla olevasta linkistä.
Gear used: Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, EF 50mm f/1.8 II, EF 90-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM, 430EX
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Sillä nimellä ainakin kulki tämänpäiväinen vilttipäivämme, joka oli osana koulumme satavuotisjuhlaa. Ja hyvin onnistuneesti se oli järjestettykin. Luvassa oli joukkue- ja muita taitopelejä, pomppulinnaa pienemmille, musiikkia, herkkuja ja muuta. Itse nautiskelin tapahtumasta samalla valokuvaten. Kuvia nähtävissä alla.
Lainattu Hyllin uutisista:
“Tivoli Hyllikaani on rantautunut Helsingin yhteislyseoon ja oppilaat ovat nauttineet sen antimista. Vieraitakin oli mukana mm. viereiseltä ala-asteelta 4.- ja 6. luokkalaisia lähialueen asukkaiden, oppilaiden vanhempia ja lähisukulaisia unohtamatta. …” -Aino Pajala
Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, EF 90-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM
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Sain kyseisen kameran lainaksi lehtikuvausta varten Softaajaan ja oih, kuinka ihastuinkaan siihen! Kameran täysikokoisen 35mm kennonsa ansiosta sillä valokuvaaminen on kuin aivan eri ulottuvuudesta. Huomattavimmat erot olivat ensin tietysti laajempi kuva-ala (1,0x kerroin) ja suurikokoinen etsin, mutta erityisesti kuvanlaatu on ilmiömäinen aikaisempaan kokemaani verrattuna. Kameran kyky hallita suuriakin ISO-herkkyyksiä ja sen tuottama bokeh olivat tiputtaa minut tuoliltani.
Itse Softaajan valokuvat tulossa kesäkuun alussa. Stay tuned.
Briefly in English: I got to borrow the Canon’s EOS 5D for photo shoots for Softaaja and the performance of it made me almost drop from my chair! The actual photos for Softaaja are coming in the beginning of July so stay tuned.
Canon EOS 5D, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM: 1/160 sec f/4 ISO 3200. See 100% crops from the photo beneath after the jump.
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…
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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?
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.
Canon EOS 350D, 2x430EX, ST-E2 (see the lighting setup below)
1/200 sec, f/5.0, ISO 100
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