Monthly Archives: October 2010

New gallery: Kamppi Fall Season Opening 2010 Fashion Show

Link to Kamppi Fall Season Opening 2010 Gallery

Last month I photographed the Kamppi Fall Season Opening fashion show in Kamppi shopping center. The catwalk was bright red, so these pictures are quite colorful :) But white balance adjustment was quite challenging, as there was light from many different sources: daylight, normal shopping center lights, spotlights for the catwalk, light reflecting from the red catwalk, and my fill flash (warmed with orange gel)…

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New gallery: Muoti 2010 Fashion Show

Link to Muoti 2010 Fashion Show Gallery

I visited Muoti 2010 fashion fair on 15.10. and photographed the general fashion show, i.e. Muoti 2010 Fashion show, and the wedding fashion show. Here are 66 photos from the Muoti 2010 fashion show. I will add later gallery from the wedding fashion show to my web site.

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Finlandia Trophy 2010: Ladies, Free Skating

Kiira Korpi

Here are my favorites (16 photos) from Finlandia Trophy 2010 Ladies – Free Skating competition from today. Akiko Suzuki won the Finlandia Trophy’s ladies competition, Kiira Korpi was second and Elena Leonova was third.

From the camera setting points of view, skating is quite simple to photograph: use fast lens and full aperture (in these photos F2.8 or F2) and fast shutter speed to stop the movement (1/500 – 1/800 seconds). But the act of skating photography is not simple: Ice skaters move fast, they are typically too close or too far away (for your lens), eyes are closed, hand is in front of face,… And even the AF has misses the focus occasionally. So the success rate is quite low, and you need to prepared to shoot a lot.
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Finlandia Trophy 2010: Ice Dance, Short Dance

Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat

Here are 18 photos from Finlandia Trophy 2010 Ice Dance competition from yesterday.
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My Iceland exhibition in Finlandia Hall on 17.10.

Sunrise in Námafjall Geothermal Area near Mývatn

Sunrise in Námafjall Geothermal Area near Mývatn

I will have one day landscape photography exhibition in Finlandia Hall on 17.10.2010 during the The Nature Photograph of the Year event (further information in Finnish). The event will be open 10:30-20, and the entrance fee for the event is 5 euros. In addition to my exhibition, you can see the best nature photographs of the year, and seven other nature photography exhibitions. You can also see several photography presentations (most of them are in Finnish, but some of them are in English, like the presentation by Jim Brandenburg), but you need to pay more (9-37 euros).

I will have 8-10 landscape prints in my Iceland exhibition. There will be four aerial photographs, they are mostly amazing river details. The rest of the landscape photos are taken during my 10 day tour into Icelandic wilderness. I participated to the landscape photography tour arranged by Daniel Bergmann. The target of this trip was to catch the various locations in the best possible light, so we were sleeping in tents and huts that allowed staying overnight near the photogenic locations. This also allowed us to be flexible with the locations and route according to variable Icelandic weather conditions. Camping is also the only alternative if you want to stay overnight in the interior of Iceland (Highland).

All of my aerial photos from Iceland are already visible in these galleries: Gallery I and Gallery II. I’m still processing the photos from the ten day tour, and they will be added to my site in few weeks.

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