I have taken photos many, many times on Tornio old bridge, but I have never thought one thing before. The curvature of the bridge. If the photos have taken using mobile phone or DSLR with wide angle lens, the curvature is not visible. I took this photo using my zoom lens and the focal length was 250mm and the end result is very interesting.
Place:Tornio, Finland Photo: Curvature Date: 31st of January, 2017
Camera: Canon EOS 60D Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Shot: 1/400 sec. f/6.3 250mm ISO 200
Editing: Cropping and sharpening
Sometimes photography and photos can surprise you and that's awesome!
I added a new page Videos and Photo Collages to this blog. There you can find direct links to my Youtube channel. All the pages are visible on the upper left corner.
Today was very warm and nice winter day and temperature was about +3C. It felt almost like in the spring time.
Place:Tornio, Finland Photo: Wintry river view Date: 26th of January, 2017
Camera: Canon EOS 60D Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Shot: 1/250 sec. f/7.1 90mm ISO 100
Editing: For this photo I used app called Camera360 in my phone (Android). I used filter, where only blue is visible. After that I added more saturation to make blue even more visible.
So not everything else is black & white exept sky and water is blue.
This is one kind of test photo. I wanted to use simple white background and check what kind of photos I could take.
Photo: Flashlight on the White Background Date: 12th of January, 2017
Camera: Canon EOS 60D Lens: EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Shot: 1/4000 sec. f/1.8 50mm ISO 100
Editing: Cropping and sharpening. Then I edited using different kind of filters.
Idea for this white background I got from this video, where they show how to take product photos simply.
I just wanted to try in the low light and photo above a result. This was just a quick test, so have to try more using different kind of objects and lights.
Yesterday was nice winter day and temperature was about -5C. There were also fishermen on the river.
Place: Tornio, Finland Photo: Ice fishing in Tornionjoki (Tornio River) Date: 7th of January, 2017
Camera: Canon EOS 60D Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Shot: 1/200 sec. f/7.1 84mm ISO 100
Editing: Color temperature, cropping and sharpening.
This is good time of the year for ice fishing. Here was three days a go more than -30C, so ice is thick enough for sure. Anyway there are not so much snow yet, so it's easy to walk on the ice.
Tornio is a small town in South Lapland in Finland. Here is cold long winter and beautiful summer, when sun is few weeks above the horizon 24/7. I made a photo collage of my 2016 Tornio photos to my Youtube channel.
The photo collage starts from January in winter and continues via summer and ends up to new winter in December. Enjoy!
Tomorrow on 21st of Dec 2016 is the shortest day of the year. I took this photo today just before sunset at 13:21. Today sunrise was 10:53 and sunset 13:49. Sun was above the horizon only 2h56min.
Place: Tornio, Finland Photo: Sunset on the Tornio Finland and Haparanda Sweden border Date: 20th of December, 2016
Camera: Canon EOS 60D Lens: EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Shot:1/60 sec. f/7.1 19mm ISO100
Editing: A bit cropping and sharpening.
When I took this photo I'm standing in Finland side, but the building on the background are in Haparanda Sweden. The borderline goes just somewhere on that canal area.
Yesterday was a bit chilly weather and temperature was -21C. I walked anyway on the borderline here in Tornio and took this photo. This is underpass from Tornio Finland to Haparanda Sweden. Haparanda old water tower is in the middle of the photo.
Place: Haparanda, Sweden Photo: Underpass from Tornio Finland to Haparanda Sweden Date: 6th of December, 2016
Camera: Canon PowerShot G15 Shot: 1/250 sec. f/2.8 11.976mm ISO 80
Editing: Cropping and sharpening
I took this photo 2:20PM, so it was about 17min after official sunset time.
Many times the sunset view is even more beautiful after sun is not visible anymore. This photo is good example what I mean. Horizon is still yellow, but sky is red and looks like it's in fire.
Place: Tornio, Finland Photo: Dramatic sunset in Tornio Date: 1st of December, 2016
Camera: Canon EOS 60D Lens: EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Shot: 1/80 sec. f/8 20mm ISO 100
Puerto Princesa in Palawan is great place for scuba diving. There is possible to see very small macro creatures, but also big ones. Even whale sharks. Here are some highlights of my underwater adventures in Puerto Princesa. Enjoy!
Palawan is well-known of beautiful beaches and islands, but there is also rich marine life.
Manila, Philippines. Manila in Philippines is not the first place, if you think about the supercars. There are anyway lot of real car guys. Every Sunday mornings Manila Sports Cars Club has a meeting in Burgos Circle in Metro-Manila. This place was on the corner of our home, so I used to visit there also often.
If you live or visit in Manila and want to see cars like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche and other exotics, Burgos Circle is the place where to visit.
Place: Burgos Circle, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Metro-Manila, Philippines Photo/Video: Supercar Sundays in Burgos Circle
Here in the video you will see the collection of the best supercars in Burgos Circle. Enjoy!
Lot of interesting and also expensive models, which are not so common.
Tornio, Finland. Winter in Finland is cold and the coldest day of the year is usually about -40C. This means rivers and lakes are frozen. Some people anyway want to go swimming outside.
Place: Tornio, Finland Photo: Ice swimming in Tornionjoki (Tornio River). Date: 6th of November, 2016
Camera: Canon EOS 60D Lens: EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Shot: 1/320 sec. f/6.3 250mm
I have tried out ice swimming twice and let's say it's quite...refreshing.
Macro photography is very interesting, but it´s not so easy. Biggest challenges are usually the focus and depth of field.
I took this dragonfly photo in the river side and there was some wind. Focus to eye was not so easy and had to take many photos before I got this one.
Place:Haparanda, Sweden Target: Dragonfly (Coenagrion Hastulatum) Date: 23rd of June, 2016
Camera: Canon EOS 60D Lens: EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Shot: 1/320sec f/5.6 ISO100
Editing: Little bit sharpening and cropping.
Summer is the best time of the year to take macro photos here in North Finland. Fortunately summer is just in the half way, so there is lot of time to take more macro photos.
