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Monday, July 14, 2008
BLOG HAS BEEN MOVED
Ive moved my blog to my Uber website which offers far more options and possibilities to show my work and share my thoughts and interact with the network.
View my page at joona.uber.com/joona
View my page at joona.uber.com/joona
Friday, September 28, 2007
Swing
Friday morning 9.30.
Silly studio photo session with Mika and Erol at uni.
A 120 roll of black and white 400ASA Ilford Delta didnt come out at all... in fact even the developer was GREEN when I poured it out, never happened before. Ive never seen green X-TOL coming out of a tank in my life.
It might have been the x-rays at airports that fucked up the film, but im not sure if that would really affect the color of the used developer... go figure.
Who ever fancies knowing about the lights set-up, there was a redhead positioned some 3 meters away front left, main light soft box back left at f7, a head light black right top at f5 and a another big soft box front right at f5 or f7... all at the same range approx. I changed the ratios of the lights as we went so Im not that sure what setting those 3 frames had.
Swing 1
Swing2
Swing3
You can run but you cant hide, Tiger Woods!
Silly studio photo session with Mika and Erol at uni.
A 120 roll of black and white 400ASA Ilford Delta didnt come out at all... in fact even the developer was GREEN when I poured it out, never happened before. Ive never seen green X-TOL coming out of a tank in my life.
It might have been the x-rays at airports that fucked up the film, but im not sure if that would really affect the color of the used developer... go figure.
Who ever fancies knowing about the lights set-up, there was a redhead positioned some 3 meters away front left, main light soft box back left at f7, a head light black right top at f5 and a another big soft box front right at f5 or f7... all at the same range approx. I changed the ratios of the lights as we went so Im not that sure what setting those 3 frames had.
Swing 1
Swing2
Swing3
You can run but you cant hide, Tiger Woods!
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Slam it
I went to Redrum last night again for a good night out and some photos too.
Anyway, im too tired to type.
click the image to see the photos -
Anyway, im too tired to type.
click the image to see the photos -
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Nokia Widset Services
Ive been driving lorry trucks all summer again.
I got lucky too, though.
I got an assignment from Jonathan Ben-Ami !
He was hired by a big-ass mobile phone & services company from up north to make a promotional video for their new mobile service thingie or something like that. not really my business really... but he called me asking if I would be available to shoot it. Would I? Hell yes I would.
Anyway, were starting tomorrow. Everything - or at least most - should be prepared now: actors, locations, camera etc... just need to go and see if we want to use any lighting equipment. Probably yes. At least Id love to.
We drove nearly 200 kilometers to another town just to get a Canon XM2 videocamcorder. It was not the actual camera we wanted but what comes with it: a Redrock Micro lens adapter for Canon EF lenses. Camcorders cant usually take advantage of shallow DoF's due to their tiny CCD sensors. With the adapter you can project the image onto a constantly rotating matt glass inside the adapter, which the camcorder then records. Smart.
The camera looks _massive_ with an EF 70-200 4L lens attached. You can see the adapter there right between the lens and the camcorder.
Theres some still images I made for the project to give some idea of what the clips are going to look like, you can see some of them here.
And yes, it will be B&W.
And yes, it will be extremely hard to keep subjects in focus with lens aperture of 1.4, especially when its not still images and the picture in the view finder & eye piece is upside down and reversed...
Ill do just fine, though :)
I got lucky too, though.
I got an assignment from Jonathan Ben-Ami !
He was hired by a big-ass mobile phone & services company from up north to make a promotional video for their new mobile service thingie or something like that. not really my business really... but he called me asking if I would be available to shoot it. Would I? Hell yes I would.
Anyway, were starting tomorrow. Everything - or at least most - should be prepared now: actors, locations, camera etc... just need to go and see if we want to use any lighting equipment. Probably yes. At least Id love to.
We drove nearly 200 kilometers to another town just to get a Canon XM2 videocamcorder. It was not the actual camera we wanted but what comes with it: a Redrock Micro lens adapter for Canon EF lenses. Camcorders cant usually take advantage of shallow DoF's due to their tiny CCD sensors. With the adapter you can project the image onto a constantly rotating matt glass inside the adapter, which the camcorder then records. Smart.
The camera looks _massive_ with an EF 70-200 4L lens attached. You can see the adapter there right between the lens and the camcorder.
Theres some still images I made for the project to give some idea of what the clips are going to look like, you can see some of them here.
And yes, it will be B&W.
And yes, it will be extremely hard to keep subjects in focus with lens aperture of 1.4, especially when its not still images and the picture in the view finder & eye piece is upside down and reversed...
Ill do just fine, though :)
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Sikamaanantai
Hello there. No posts after Romania... dunno why really.. guess I just forgot I even had a blog.
Anyway. What all I've been up to lately? nowt. apart from work. I havent really even had time to take any photos or anything. I took a few rolls of film to a local shop though, but they seriously fcuked them up. I mean, I think the films are just fine but the prints I ordered are wack: the colors are not even close to what they should be, if you take the film and compare it to the print you can see a vast difference. Its funny how, though, the tinted color varies, some of them are yellow-ish and some green. It makes no sense at all to me.
For that money, Ill never order prints again. Just developement. Maybe neg scans?
Ive been going out a lot lately though... even on a monday. Took some photos:
Heres the url
A nice bar that Redrum. Pretty small though... but I suppose it only boosts the atmosphere. They should take up the age limit by a couple of years, theres the magical line where people stop sticking empty pints and glasses all over the floor when they turn 20 or more.
Ill try to get back to you!
Anyway. What all I've been up to lately? nowt. apart from work. I havent really even had time to take any photos or anything. I took a few rolls of film to a local shop though, but they seriously fcuked them up. I mean, I think the films are just fine but the prints I ordered are wack: the colors are not even close to what they should be, if you take the film and compare it to the print you can see a vast difference. Its funny how, though, the tinted color varies, some of them are yellow-ish and some green. It makes no sense at all to me.
For that money, Ill never order prints again. Just developement. Maybe neg scans?
Ive been going out a lot lately though... even on a monday. Took some photos:
Heres the url
A nice bar that Redrum. Pretty small though... but I suppose it only boosts the atmosphere. They should take up the age limit by a couple of years, theres the magical line where people stop sticking empty pints and glasses all over the floor when they turn 20 or more.
Ill try to get back to you!
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Romania Day 0
Hello all.
I promised to update this blog and upload some pictures, but Ive been busy doing other stuff and trying to keep my stomach in shape in this heat and different type of food...
heres the first series of photos with some text, too..
I have something like 500 photos in digital form and a roll of color film, ill put them up as soon as I can. Theres a slight problem with electricity and internet connections... and time.
Lupasin päivittää blogia ja pistellä kuviakin, mut on ollu aika kiire muiden asioiden kanssa mm. yrittäen pitää vatsan kunnossa tässä lämmössä ja erilaisessa ruokavaliossa.
Ekat kuvat kuitenkin nyt.
Digikuvia on joku 500 ja kinofilmiä yks värirulla, pistän ne esille sit heti ku ehin ja saan sähköä + nettiyhteyden...
click here for pictures!!
kuvat täällä!!
I promised to update this blog and upload some pictures, but Ive been busy doing other stuff and trying to keep my stomach in shape in this heat and different type of food...
heres the first series of photos with some text, too..
I have something like 500 photos in digital form and a roll of color film, ill put them up as soon as I can. Theres a slight problem with electricity and internet connections... and time.
Lupasin päivittää blogia ja pistellä kuviakin, mut on ollu aika kiire muiden asioiden kanssa mm. yrittäen pitää vatsan kunnossa tässä lämmössä ja erilaisessa ruokavaliossa.
Ekat kuvat kuitenkin nyt.
Digikuvia on joku 500 ja kinofilmiä yks värirulla, pistän ne esille sit heti ku ehin ja saan sähköä + nettiyhteyden...
click here for pictures!!
kuvat täällä!!
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Final Fling
25th May: University of Sunderland Final Fling in Manor Quay.
All photos have been uploaded to another address here.
Depending on your connection you should let the page load up properly, 56 images can take a while.
Cheers!
All photos have been uploaded to another address here.
Depending on your connection you should let the page load up properly, 56 images can take a while.
Cheers!
Friday, May 04, 2007
Excitement
My time's running out.
This photography project for the genres of photogaphy module is due next wednesday - well, at least thats when the crit is - and I've done literally fuck all.
I've had a month to go out and take photos, but I only shot the first rolls of film yesterday.
Kelly trying out Bens DJ equipment during a BBQ party
Im supposed to imitate - maybe not imitate but be consciously influenced by another photographers work...
This man on the metro was playing with his Nintendo DS... the woman behind him kept staring at me as if it was illegal to take a photograph in the metro.
... in this case Tony Ray-Jones who was an english-born documentary photographer whose work despite his very early death of laukaemia in 1972 has been credited as one of the most talented in the world of photography.
People reading news papers are interesting. I think this was at Pelaw metro station. Lots of chavs there.
This is South Shields. I dont think Ive seen any other places with that many people jogging around. Understandable though - I think its also the very best place for jogging anyway with the coast right next to you.
I think there is something in common with his and my work, I dont mean the conceptual side but the compositions and subjects we both favor. Style?
Also people sleeping in public places such as the metro here are interesting. This is one of the photos shot from hip height, I didnt really want to advertise myself taking photographs.
If I remember right someone at university told me the first two years of studying would be more or less concentrated on growing each student into their own style of photography. As I think, the only way to build up your own t"style" is trough experience and Im confident most other people would agree on that. Sometimes though, I feel like the course is not too competent in that sense: seeing theres people like myself who have been walking with a camera in their hand for nearly a decade and then people who can hardly tell how a camera works - not that there is anything wrong with that itself, but Im not sure if the programme has been designed for totally inexperienced people or those a bit more advanced.
South Shields metro station. This seagull was absolutely massive. Gigantic. Not as big as those in Helsinki Kauppatori that tend to snatch peoples hotdogs from their hands while being mid-air.
Point Im trying to make: There should be more freedom of choice about your coursework, not just the way it is now where you basically get told what to do for each module and whose work you are to copy. I think I have found my "style". Said before: it comes out of experience and staring at tens of thousands of pictures, not reading books. I understand researching literature is important in order to produce any work, also photography, with a concept. Then again, how important is the concept of your work? If you like taking photographs of squirrels or ducks like them with their big-ass telephoto zoom lenses, is it essential to have a concept? After all, photography can and usually is described as art, and I think any work, be it a painting or a photograph that is enjoyable to look at is art.
Bla.Ill just stop crying about stuff now. You could say Im frustrated?
Brits are nuts about football. Even though I knew this before coming to England, it never stops amazing me. They put flags and other stuff everywhere.
Flag again. On the other side of the building in the previous picture.
I've decided to put off the LCD screen of my 350D. I mean, disable the automatic displaying of taken photos.
"Chimping", as it is called.
Reasons behind the decision vary: Im getting ill of hundreds of photographs to go to through every time Ive been shooting digitally. Theyre also a pain in my ass to store. I as well want to try and increase the quality of my digital work, put some more time and effort into it and think about the frames Im taking, not just put my camera on Av and then go point-and-shoot at things chimping the photographs from the monitor and make on-location judgements over the images supported by a shitty tiny LCD screen.
I realized all this finally after reading another photo student deciding to do the same basicly for the same reasons.
http://jamiestoker.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/hmmm/
Id suggest you to have a look at his blog, theres some really amazing work. Im glad to see people with real determination and eagerness towards photography.
This pair was cute. Im not sure but I think they were french. Or dutch. Probably not english anyway, I couldnt really hear them speaking but at least they didnt look english at all. Especially not she.
The Dead Rabbits were a gang in New York City in the 1850's originally part of the Roach Guards. Internal dissension developed however, and at one of the Roach Guards' stormy meetings, someone threw a dead rabbit into the center of the room. One of the squabbling factions accepted it as an omen and its members withdrew, forming an independent gang and calling themselves the Dead Rabbits.
Some metro station, could be Pelaw again.
South Shields Beach. I saw lots of dogs even though they are supposed to be banned from 1st of May.
Ben drinking Foster's while Kelly plays with his DJ gear.
Where ever they go, they go on bikes. and they all look the same.
This photography project for the genres of photogaphy module is due next wednesday - well, at least thats when the crit is - and I've done literally fuck all.
I've had a month to go out and take photos, but I only shot the first rolls of film yesterday.
Kelly trying out Bens DJ equipment during a BBQ party
Im supposed to imitate - maybe not imitate but be consciously influenced by another photographers work...
This man on the metro was playing with his Nintendo DS... the woman behind him kept staring at me as if it was illegal to take a photograph in the metro.
... in this case Tony Ray-Jones who was an english-born documentary photographer whose work despite his very early death of laukaemia in 1972 has been credited as one of the most talented in the world of photography.
People reading news papers are interesting. I think this was at Pelaw metro station. Lots of chavs there.
This is South Shields. I dont think Ive seen any other places with that many people jogging around. Understandable though - I think its also the very best place for jogging anyway with the coast right next to you.
I think there is something in common with his and my work, I dont mean the conceptual side but the compositions and subjects we both favor. Style?
Also people sleeping in public places such as the metro here are interesting. This is one of the photos shot from hip height, I didnt really want to advertise myself taking photographs.
If I remember right someone at university told me the first two years of studying would be more or less concentrated on growing each student into their own style of photography. As I think, the only way to build up your own t"style" is trough experience and Im confident most other people would agree on that. Sometimes though, I feel like the course is not too competent in that sense: seeing theres people like myself who have been walking with a camera in their hand for nearly a decade and then people who can hardly tell how a camera works - not that there is anything wrong with that itself, but Im not sure if the programme has been designed for totally inexperienced people or those a bit more advanced.
South Shields metro station. This seagull was absolutely massive. Gigantic. Not as big as those in Helsinki Kauppatori that tend to snatch peoples hotdogs from their hands while being mid-air.
Point Im trying to make: There should be more freedom of choice about your coursework, not just the way it is now where you basically get told what to do for each module and whose work you are to copy. I think I have found my "style". Said before: it comes out of experience and staring at tens of thousands of pictures, not reading books. I understand researching literature is important in order to produce any work, also photography, with a concept. Then again, how important is the concept of your work? If you like taking photographs of squirrels or ducks like them with their big-ass telephoto zoom lenses, is it essential to have a concept? After all, photography can and usually is described as art, and I think any work, be it a painting or a photograph that is enjoyable to look at is art.
Bla.Ill just stop crying about stuff now. You could say Im frustrated?
Brits are nuts about football. Even though I knew this before coming to England, it never stops amazing me. They put flags and other stuff everywhere.
Flag again. On the other side of the building in the previous picture.
I've decided to put off the LCD screen of my 350D. I mean, disable the automatic displaying of taken photos.
"Chimping", as it is called.
Reasons behind the decision vary: Im getting ill of hundreds of photographs to go to through every time Ive been shooting digitally. Theyre also a pain in my ass to store. I as well want to try and increase the quality of my digital work, put some more time and effort into it and think about the frames Im taking, not just put my camera on Av and then go point-and-shoot at things chimping the photographs from the monitor and make on-location judgements over the images supported by a shitty tiny LCD screen.
I realized all this finally after reading another photo student deciding to do the same basicly for the same reasons.
http://jamiestoker.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/hmmm/
Id suggest you to have a look at his blog, theres some really amazing work. Im glad to see people with real determination and eagerness towards photography.
This pair was cute. Im not sure but I think they were french. Or dutch. Probably not english anyway, I couldnt really hear them speaking but at least they didnt look english at all. Especially not she.
The Dead Rabbits were a gang in New York City in the 1850's originally part of the Roach Guards. Internal dissension developed however, and at one of the Roach Guards' stormy meetings, someone threw a dead rabbit into the center of the room. One of the squabbling factions accepted it as an omen and its members withdrew, forming an independent gang and calling themselves the Dead Rabbits.
Some metro station, could be Pelaw again.
South Shields Beach. I saw lots of dogs even though they are supposed to be banned from 1st of May.
Ben drinking Foster's while Kelly plays with his DJ gear.
Where ever they go, they go on bikes. and they all look the same.
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