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!

Still around here somewhere

  • August 28, 2008 2:27 am

Hi all! Long time no see.

Julius and Marja in LondonFor 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:

Julius ja Marja @ London, Lontoo

Kirkko veren päällä

Isaakin kirkon kattotasolla

Tiiviisti veneilemässä

Marja ja Pietari

Julius ja Marja @ Pietari

Pietarhovi

Pietarhovi

Pietarhovi

Illanistujaiset kotona Pietarissa

Äiti, isovanhemmat ja serkku

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:

Softaajan kansikuva 6/2008

Rekyylin kansikuva 5/2008

Rekyyli 5/2008

Riista, haulikot

Softaaja, Kalash AKS-74UN

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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Airsoft in Mustavuori

Väinö Huhtalo

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:

Skeittauksen SM-kisat 08 Kiasman edessä

Skeittauksen SM-kisat 08 Kiasman edessä

Skeittauksen SM-kisat 08 Kiasman edessä

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!

Julius Koivistoinen

World War 2: Airborne

  • June 8, 2008 11:47 pm

Note! More photos at Julious.fi -> WW2 Cover shoot (42 photos in total!)

Tomi and Janne as WW2 Airborne troops
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.

Tomi and Janne as WW2 Airborne troops
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. ;)

Janne and Tomi as WW2 Airborne troops
Canon EOS 350D, EF 17-40mm f/4L @ 17mm, 430EX, 1/1000sec, f/6.3, ISO 200

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Softaaja cover + Ruostehauta

  • June 3, 2008 12:42 am

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.

Cover shot for Softaaja

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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Ruostehauta sneak peek

  • May 30, 2008 1:23 am

A gallery of 73 cool airsoft photos coming soon. 8)
The gallery is published. See it here.

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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?

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

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