“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
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!
Still not sure what lens it might be?
May I present you, Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM!
See the setup here – 3 strobes @ 1/8 power. CTO and CTB gels used on the flashes behind lenses.
In other news
I attended to Finnish version of the global Nike+ Human Race event which was a really fun experience even though the number of participants was nothing compared to other countries’.
I ran the distance of 10 kilometers in 54 minutes and could have easily continued further. I’m confident of myself being ready for the next year’s half maraton.
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
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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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
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
Maaliskuun loppupuolella lumilaudan selässä menivät Tomi, Toni ja Jami (kuvassa) minun jälleen viihtyessä kameran toisella puolella. Meno oli entistä kovempi, mikä toivottavasti näkyy myös kuvista. Hope you enjoy ‘em!
Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L, 2x 430EX, ST-E2
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