“Kerroksia” Photo Exhibition Now Open
“Kerroksia” photo exhibition is now open in art centre Väinölä, Varkaus, Finland. It’s open until 28.9 Mon-Fri 10-17.
Photo Exhibition “Kerroksia”
My photography exhibition ”Kerroksia” (“Layers”) in Art centre Väinölä, Varkaus, Finland 3.9.-28.9.2018. For the silhouette image I used softbox behind me. Works great. I traced the image in Inkscape by hand and imported it in photoshop. I wanted a retro look and choose an appropriate font for that. Heavy grain and color grading finished the...
Photo Exhibition
Kuopio Camera Club has photo exhibition in Kuopio City Library between 27.02.2012 – 03.03.2012. This is the first time I have my photos in a public exhibition and I decided to choose six photos from the ‘Life of Helmut‘ series. When I arrived to the library I noticed that I was a bit unprepared and...
‘Life of Helmut’ Backgrounds
In ‘Life of Helmut’ -book I wanted every background for the texts to be different. I already had one foot print picture in vector format which I cleaned in Inkscape. Mirroring it did give me left and right print. I had an old sheet of metal that was painted black. I dropped it to the...
‘Life of Helmut’ Book
‘Life of Helmut’ book is finally sitting on my desk. The book looks better in print than I expected. I didn’t want to use any of the proprietary software that many online photo printing shops offer. Instead I used Scribus which offered complete freedom for layout. Scribus can output PDF/X-3 which is a subset of...
‘Life of Helmut’ Texts
Photo books are pretty cheap nowadays, so I thought that this ‘Life of Helmut’ -photo set might be a good candidate to test making one. I don’t want to make a book with just photos so I needed some texts to fill the pages. I didn’t even try to write anything long, just sentence or...
‘Life of Helmut’ Photo Shoot
“This is a story of Helmut. Lonely, isolated human being in an increasingly cruel world. Here you see short glimpses and small thoughts about his life.” That might be the introduction to this photoshoot. It has been fun project to make. Shoot was my first but hopefully not last. I think it went pretty well...