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.

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

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 :)

Sparkling sunday

Last week I hyped the amazing steelwool photos I took, and now I guess it's decent time to show one of them for you. This is the one you already saw earlier in as the teaser photo. I like this one very much because of the reflection, and there are couple of different photos coming later. This night was extreme, because we didn't just spin steel wool, Leevi was breathing fire as well.