Tag Archives: Event

New gallery: Fire Circus Walkea

January 8, 2011 by Mikael | Comments Off

Fire Circus Walkea / Link to Gallery

Fire Circus Walkea (Tulisirkus Walkea) is part of the Season of Light 2011 happening. Director of this fire art performance was Antti Suniala. Performers of this excellent show were Joshua Dyffort, Minttu Pietilä, Ulpu Puhakka, Valerie Sealey and Antti Suniala.

Fire art is rather difficult to photograph: I want to show the movement with long shutter speed, but I still want that the performers are recognizable (i.e. not totally blurry). This means that the success percentage is not very high, but when everything matches, I like the results a lot 🙂

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Shibari meets butoh: “Limitations in freedom”

December 12, 2010 by Mikael | Comments Off

Shibari meets butoh: Limitations in freedom

I visited yesterday Ofelia Market and photographed the fashion show and the Shibari meets butoh: “Limitations in freedom” dance performance by shibari artist Tinttu Henttonen and butoh dancer Ken Mai. Here are 10 photos, I will add bigger gallery(s) from Ofelia Market to my site later.
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Fire Art Performance photos from Kallio Kipinöi Festival

November 20, 2010 by Mikael | Comments Off

Fire Art Performance, Kallio Kipinöi Festival

Yesterday I photographed the fire art show that was part of Kallio Kipinöi festival. Fire art is always rather difficult to photograph (I have photographed it twice earlier: 2005 and 2007), you must use the tripod, but you must still follow the performers. And take a lot of photos, so some of them will succeed…

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New gallery: Kamppi Fall Season Opening 2010 Fashion Show

October 30, 2010 by Mikael | Comments Off

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

October 24, 2010 by Mikael | Comments Off

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

October 10, 2010 by Mikael | 4 Comments

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

October 9, 2010 by Mikael | Comments Off

Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat

Here are 18 photos from Finlandia Trophy 2010 Ice Dance competition from yesterday.
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New galleries: Finnish aesthetic group gymnastics championships 2010 – junior teams

June 11, 2010 by Mikael | Comments Off

Kidea / Link to AGG Championships 2010 Gallery II

Tinamit / Link to AGG Championships 2010 Gallery III

The Finnish Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships (Joukkuevoimistelun SM-kilpailut 2010) were arranged few weeks ago. These two galleries show the junior teams. Mimodes won the 16-18 years age group and Fosforit won the 14-16 years age group.

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New gallery: Finnish aesthetic group gymnastics championships 2010 – women’s teams

May 30, 2010 by Mikael | Comments Off
Ampeerit

Ampeerit / Link to AGG Championships 2010 Gallery I

The Finnish Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships (Joukkuevoimistelun SM-kilpailut 2010) were arranged a week ago. This gallery shows the women’s teams. Ampeerit won, Fotonit was the second, and Freyat became the third. The gallery with Junior teams will be added later.

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Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Photos

May 24, 2010 by Mikael | Comments Off

Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships 2010

Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships 2010 / Sirius


I photographed yesterday the Finnish Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships final (Joukkuevoimistelun SM-kilpailut 2010). There were 26 teams, and I took 100+ photos for each team, so there are a lot of new photos in my hard drive… I have not yet even looked through 1/6 of those photos, but here are some samples. Larger galleries will be added later to my web site.
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