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 working on the website

  • December 3, 2008 9:13 pm

New portfolio under construction

Yes, I code everything manually :)

(Yes, I code my websites manually… ; )

Hi ya all!

As you have probably already recognised I’m working on my main website where this blog is contained also. (If you haven’t seen the work under construction yet feel free to follow this link: JULIUSPHOTO) Previously I didn’t have much more than just this blog and before even that I was coping with just some pretty links to random galleries and bit of silly biography. (I actually made a post about that update back in the beginning of this blog.) Now I have been really revisioning the whole design of my web page and have put a lot of stress on making it functional, easy browsable and most importantly: enjoyable to view! No more small thumbnail-sized imagery or long waiting for images to be downloaded as image galleries are now scrollable.

Oh, and by the way, I would really like to know how you people like it viewing those galleries in that way actually! Feel free to post your rating of this system by leaving a comment in this post. The image galleries are located here. Thanks in advance!

So where was I …?

Did I already mention there will be 900 pixels wide and 600 pixels high pictures in my future portfolio! That’s a huge improvement over previous situation when one had to squint his or her eyes to see anything, I can tell you that! And may I also highlight that every picture published in my portfolio will be totally reprocessed exclusively for that matter.

And to make my point even clearer I’ll show you one photo from my upcoming portfolio and its stages of post processing. The first picture is straight out of the camera and quite a lackluster as you can see, but it has real hidden potential. The second one is what the photo looks like after I have given it a Lightroom treatment and in the last image I have polished the photo in Photoshop and it’s ready to go!

(By clicking the images you may open them in separate windows for easier comparison.)

An image straight out of camera. Photo by Julius Koivistoinen

An image had its treatment in Lightroom and came out like this. Photo by Julius Koivistoinen

Last stage of post processing in Photoshop. Photo by Julius Koivistoinen

So obviously there is something worthful to wait coming and I promise you I’ll be gradually updating the new content online as soon as its finished (as I have done so far too) so keeping an eye on my website may be a good idea. ;)

Thanks for reading and take care!

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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?

Panning exercise

  • April 3, 2008 1:40 pm

Decided to try some extreme panning: APS-C sensor (1.6x factor) + 300mm lens = 480mm. Also tried a post processing method in Lightroom which resembles the Dave Hill look a bit.

Canon EOS 350D, EF 90-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM, shutter speed 1/60 sec, camera on tripod

Panning

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