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:

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Muodonmuutos!

  • February 9, 2008 2:48 am

Jo pitkän aikaa blogin pystyttämistä kammoksuttuani, syttyi minussa vihdoin palava halu saada oma pieni paikkani päteä arjen asioista. Olen huomannut joskus halua tuoda asioita esille, mutta minulla ei vain ole ollut sopivaa kanavaa tehdä tätä. Ehkä myös siksi, että koen muiden internetyhteisöjen (Flickr yms.) olevan paikkoja, joissa tuon ainoastaan työni esiin. Ne ovat ikään kuin “virallisempia”. No, mitä mieltä olette nykyisestä ulkoasusta?

Old webpage versus new webpage

Tästä se lähtee… Ensimmäinen pätemiseni. Yeehaw!

Jo kauan kaipaamani päivitys kittilinssilleni on löytänyt tiensä luokseni. Canonin EF 17-40mm f/4L. Kyseessä on samalla minun ensimmäinen Canonin Luxyry-sarjan objektiivi. Olen valitettavasti tosin ollut nyt kuumeen takia pedin oma, joten testaaminen on jäänyt satunnaiseksi räpsimiseksi. Sen verran osaan jo kuitenkin sanoa, että yllätyin, ja vähän petyinkin, minkä verran kyseinen linssi vääristää kuvaa kroppirungollakin. Ongelma tulee tosin esille ainoastaan ulos zoomattuna ja onhan vääristymän määrä lisäksi paljon pienempi entiseen Canonin EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 -lasiin verrattuna.

Tähän asti olen tyytyväinen, enkä malta odottaa päästä käyttämään kyseistä linssiä myös kentällä!

Briefly in English:

For ages starting a blog of my own has been a dreadful thought to me but at last I got inspired to do it. Mostly because there has not been any channel for me to take up ordinary daily subjects even though I would have wanted to. So, what do you think about the new design?

So the first thing I’ll be blogging here is about my replacement for the kit lens! Canon’s EF 17-40mm f/4L. I’m really excited about it. Too bad I have struggled with cold for these past few days so my shots have been mostly random. I can’t wait to take this new beast to the field!

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L

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