These are some of my favourite images. Most of them you can find mounted and framed in our house – all of them have a special meaning and/or a story to go with the picture. Please note: these are personal favourites, not necessarily the most brilliant technical achievements. See the page about me as a teacher (in Finnish) to see some of my past professional work.
Like the one above. We were camping early autumn in the south tip of Emäsalo with the kids. I was playing with my camera, but feeling totally uninspired as the day was gray and the location way too familiar…
And I started to think about my former stint in neuroimaging where we had collected hundreds of magnetic samples and then averaged all of them in order to see the signal properly (i.e. the signal-to-noise-ratio was really bad). And I thought “wouldn’t it be interesting if you could do that in the camera…” i.e. take a sequence of images and by averaging filter out the transient components leaving only the solid ones. I dialled deeper into the menus — must have been EOS 5Dmrk4 at the time — and I was astonished to find out that the Japanese engineeringteam had anticipated my desire: there was an option to shoot multiple exposure by averaging the images.
I tried it immediately… and the image above is the result. If I remember correctly it was a 9 images composite.
