Category: Photography

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Evening Moment

Here’s one of the non-flash images I shot with X100. Had some big troubles with autofocus in this dim light. ISO3200 is really clean what comes to noise. In fact I added some grain to this in Lightroom to make the image look more dynamic.

I realized however that having flash is a must for this type of outdoor night photography.

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Printing Lizard Point

I had great time making first prints for Lizard Point photos in Dark Room Intl. in Yokohama. I was really glad to get advice and guidance from the kind people there.

I really love the look of real silver-halide prints. They look substantial and delightfully analogue. Since I was after the high contrast, I felt I really chose the right medium this time by choosing film versus digital.

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Hänelle joka kuihtuneita kukkia kastelee (Part 2)

Second part of my work “Hänelle joka kuihtuneita kukkia kastelee” (For her who waters emaciated flowers).

This line is actually one of my favorite lines from movie “Hana-bi” by Kitano Takeshi. I really like how it sounds in Finnish and I think the translation went somehow like this. This appears in a scene where the main character’s terminally ill wife is giving water to dead plants and is interrupted by a passersby who asks her something along these lines, “are you stupid? Who waters emaciated plants?” Takeshi beats crap out of the guy.

Flowers never lose their gracefulness even after their death.

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Lizard Point Vol.1 Shooting

I had great time shooting Lizard Point Vol.1 in Jogashima, Miura today. I really want to thank fantastic model Yuki and our videographer Paulo for making this possible. Without you guys this just wouldn’t have happened!

It was really such a pleasure to work with Yuki since she really understood my concept from the beginning. The way how she interpreted it was totally beautiful; in fact I felt even a bit shaken by the intensity of the emotions she was able to convey.

Indeed, I wish that my skill as a photographer was enough to capture this very powerful scene properly. I know I will have trouble sleeping until I see the developed negatives; But that’s how it always is when you are shooting film. You’re taking risk; and that’s what makes it so thrilling; that’s chemical reaction what’s going on there.