photography

Everything related to photography. That counts photoshop as well.

Shades of grey

Where prayers are left

The past month I’ve been playing around with Adobe’s Camera RAW application (which can be used through either Bridge or Photoshop). The mini app really makes photo editing a much faster process, which is great if I want to fool around with a bunch of photos in a non-destructive way. The theme this time around … [ read more » ]

A few tweaked pics more

Somewhere in Toyama

Just a few (and rather old) Photoshopped photos I haven’t already posted on Flickr. Nothing special really, just thought I’d break the long period of blogging silence here!

Built-in hazy skies

Looking far away

Found a gimmicky but fun shooting option from my Canon point-and-shoot camera called “color switch”. Basically I select a color with my camera and choose another one the camera will swap it into. It’s a cheap trick but it actually turned out to be quite fun to use! Sure, it is something that can be … [ read more » ]

Growth in a momentary frozen state

Reaching out

The past week here in Helsinki has been quite magical as all the trees have been covered in a thin layer of frost due to some weather condition of fog pouring down to sub-zero conditions. I fail to remember when was the last time I saw something like this in Helsinki. These are the kind … [ read more » ]

Back to film

Earlier this autumn I dug up my old soviet Zenit slr-camera and bought a roll of black and white film. I actually have two Zenit bodies, but I wasn’t sure which one of them leaked light inside, so I was pretty much snapping photos just to get them developed so that I can see the … [ read more » ]

Photoshop scrubs

Sleeping beast

I’m throwing in some images I fooled around with Photoshop a few months ago. I call these kinds of images I make “scrubs”, image files that don’t have any purpose other than practicing different kinds of effects with varying success. In these particular scrubs I was focused on photo retouching (playing with colours and contrast … [ read more » ]