Breath it out

Long time no se..FIRE. Here's something to cheer you up since it's autumn, we all need more light don't we?

Farewell summer

As much as I love summer, I warmly welcome autumn. One of the coolest things in Finland is autumn. As the leaves turn yellow and brown. It's like natures own seasong ending firework. And the second best thing in autumn is the fresh scent in the air after sunset. This photo is taken on the same road where I took the mist photo this spring.

Astro season is ON

Right now I'm pretty excited because I took propably the best astro photo so far. New moon, not too many clouds, nearly astronomical darkness, shooting stars, could it really be any better. In my opinion: NO, except some auroras would be welcome, but anyhow last night was stunning. The fresh autumn scent floating in the air in the middle of dark forest. I can't imagine anything cooler than this. I took 100 frames for my timelapse video also which is nice as well. Unfortunately this week's weather forecast doesn't look too good for me. It's going to rain whole week.

EXIF:
Canon 6D
Samyang 14mm
30 sec
f/2.8
iso2500

Photo weekend

Last weekend was quite amazing. I was instructor at a 3-day photographing camp. I had the pleasure of meeting some young promising photographers and working with insanely talented models. This was one of the best moments of this summer without a doubt. Significent thanks for everyone who participated. And special thanks for Samuel for taking the silhouette portrait of me.

Das Bayern

For a change I'm posting something extraordinary. My dear cousin wanted me to take a shot of his car, and I wanted to add a creative touch into it with photoshop. Although it's been a long time since I've used anything but exposure and colour corrections, I am extremely happy with the results.

Forest stream

Yesterday we went to scout for new locations for our timelapse project with a friend of mine, and we definitely nailed it. I heard a hint about this location, and as we managed to navigate there, we were stunned. I've lived 25 years in this city and I didn't know this place. I'm a little confused, because I thought I've explored all the cool locations in this one-horse town. Luckily, I was wrong.

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As a photographer I love to spend my time behind camera, but this time I got caught between two cameras. Still I was behind my own precious camera. Credits for the lower photo belongs to Niko. Thank you very very much :)

Favourite spot

I was browsing through my photo library, and I found one decent unedited photo ( actually plenty of them ), from one of my favourite locations, under the bridge. This place can actually be seen from my previous post. Without further ado, here you go!

Riverscape

A couple of days ago I posted a sneak peek photo of my timelapse project on my instagram and facebook page. As I didn't post the photo here, I felt bad for those who only follow my blog, so I decided to give you something even better. Not just the iPhone quality, but a decent still photo taken with the 6D, enjoy.

New gear!

As I've already mentioned on my Facebook page I sold my whole Nikon gear, and for a while I've been collecting new even better camera gear! This time I bought Canon 6D (sorry all Nikonists), which I think is absolutely one of the best investments for a long time. Of course ended up I buying new lenses as well. For astro photos and landscapes I bought Samyang 14mm f/2.8 which is most likely the best lens for my purposes, at least by its quality-price ratio (245 euros). For portraits I bought Canon 85mm f/1.8 which was also reasonably cheap considering the quality of the images (290 euros). And last but not least, the 6D itself cost 1600 euros, YIIKES :S

I'm pretty broke despite of selling my old gear, but enough of the money talk. Now I have decent gear serving my needs better than my previous setup. I still love some of Nikon's features, but I've found some even better features from my new love. For example the thumb scroll, first I found it super clumsy, but the more I use it, the more I like it. Now I can take astro photos with ISO-12800 easily, and probably with even higher ISO-value, INCREDIBLE!

Here's a precisely the seventh photo I took with the 6D

EXIF:
Exposure time: 30sec
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 6400
Focal lenght: 14mm

Tenerife!

Hola people! Last week I was on a vacation at Tenerife, and I took pretty awesome photos! I'll post some of them as I manage to process them ( plenty of panoramas incoming! ).

... And yes I was photographing sunset above clouds!

The Moon Halo

Usually I hate the moon, but today is an exception. The moon made a dim halo to the sky which I found rather cool! My facebook page also hit 200 likes today, so this post is to celebrate those thumbs you've given me, THANK YOU SO MUCH! In case you don't already like my page please do it HERE

Astro remake

Hello people! Like usually "it's been quiet for a while". I'm not going to lie to you, honestly I've been lazy, and that's all. Last weekend was quite amazing, I had three workshops about astro photography at Kuva&Kamera -fair, and I met one of my biggest idols MIKKO LAGERSTEDT! I also learned a couple of new techniques how to process astro photos, which is super exciting and that's the reason for today's post. I reprocessed one of my personal favourite astro photos, and the difference between these two images is huge. The result with this advanced techinique is incredible, I'm pretty stoked!

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Mist

I encountered this rather mystic mist earlier this week.

Selfie

Last night around 1 am I decided it was time to update my facebook profile photo, since the previous profile photo was one and a half year old. I also had a great opportunity to try out my new wireless flash trigger, which seemed to work out perfectly and it cost only 6 dollars :)

Back on track

I apologize for being really inactive. I've been searching for inspiration, and I think I've found something pretty fascinating. Stay tuned for more information. I did something quite exceptional yesterday, a video collage of my other hobby: FLOWBOARDING!

Night photography course

Hello everyone! Once again I've been extremely busy, but I got a little something for you. Here are some photos from another photography course. Thanks for everyone who participated especially our teacher, this has been really interesting course.

Forgotten astro

Lately I've been photographing A LOT, and I totally had forgotten one quite nice astro photo. This one was taken in September. You can see more of the sweet middle part of Milky Way in this photo compared to the previous one I posted, and day by day Milky Way is disappearing beyond the horizon.

camera - Nikon D300S
lens - Tokina 11 - 16mm
exposure time - 30 sec
aperture - f/2.8
iso - 3200
focal lenght - 12mm

Farewell summer

Now I'm 100 % sure that summer has definitely ended. I'm not happy about it because I love summer, but on other hand the autumn colours are one of the most coolest thing we have in Finland. These two photos were taken at a nature photography course, thanks for everyone who participated. I had really nice feedback about these photos from my teacher, his comment was something like this: "hmmmphmm ... hmmmphmmhnm ... There's nothing that I would change, these are ready to be sold".

Astral greatness

I guess that earlier this week I got the best milky way photo so far. The feeling when you're standing in the middle of forest, total darkness surrounds you and the only thing you hear is the wind gently blowing. Staring the sky upon you, you see thousands and thousands of stars and it makes you feel a very small piece in this huge universe. Your everyday misfortures start to feel meaningless.

I want to thank Andrei for my new stamp. In my opinion it looks really cool especially if you compare it to my previous one. 

Photography course pt.1

Here we go again! I had a photography course a week ago at the local adult education centre, and I'm currently having another one. The first one was pretty much the same that I had last year. It was about playing with your camera and doing ridiculous things with different kinds of lights, filters, ice, plants, tiny figures and much more. If you ask me that's an excellent way to spend your weekend. I took ~ 700 photos during that weekend, so I won't post them in a single post. Thanks for everyone who participated the course and assisted me with my photos, and special thanks for the teacher of course :)