45th H.K.C.C. International Salon of Photography
Salon Silver for Army of Unknowns from 45th H.K.C.C. International Salon of Photography 2015, Hong Kong.
5th Port Talbot International Salon
PSA Best of Show Gold for Finger Puppets and Highly Commented for Self Caricature from 5th Port Talbot International Salon 2016, Wales.
Airhead
There were balloons on the kitchen table and I realized its 1st of may day after tomorrow. Maybe I could squeeze one “vappu” image before that. I could place that balloon at the place of the head and call it airhead. But that is not enough. Should I try poke it with the dart. That...
Watching Sports
I have ideas for several series and one of them is about relationship. When I saw this pig mask in ebay I started thinking about this quite popular Finnish comic strip with this idea of a pig and a woman living together. Since this men are pigs seems to be quite universal theme I wanted to play...
Saoud Al-Thani Award for Photography
Al-Thani Gold Medal – 4th Award for Lost from Saoud Al-Thani Award for Photography 2015, Austria.
Heart in a Jar
When making this image I took more document pictures about the lighting. I use fisheye lens (full frame fisheye in APS-C camera) for the setup photo but even that is not enough and I use panorama (handheld, 5 shots) made in Lightroom. That boundary warp works really well. With the usual setup image I took shots...
3rd PSSA International Salon
Salon HM for Army of Unknowns from 3rd PSSA International Salon 2016, South Africa.
Home Renovation, Textures and a Selfportrait
We did some home renovation and changed the wallpaper on one wall. I took some photos on the way to get some decay textures. I also took one selfportrait to test the new wall as a background.
SKsLSM
AFCC SKsLSM honorary title diploma.
Group Portrait
I needed to make a family group portrait. I wanted to keep it simple and used only one light with octabox. No matter how the chair was positioned we could not find a good angle / enough room for a good background so I had to mirror the cabinet from the right side to the...
Petri
I bought this old film camera from ebay because it’s my namesake. Since I didn’t have this cliché image of a photographer yet I thought to give it a try. At least I could not have picked better camera for it.