It’s been extremely busy month which I’ve spent it mostly teaching. Right after coming home from Val di Fiemme I did a four day intensive on sports photography (working with photographer Aki Loponen — a collaboration which I enjoyed immensely) and almost right after that one I started a two week intensive on journalistic multimedia and ‑video. The sports photography course was …
One of my favorite images from these games. The three ladies above everyone else: Björgen, Johaug and Kowalczyk. Slowly packing my stuff here in Val di Fiemme, heading homewards tomorrow. Next month will be very much teaching oriented: first teaching sports photography Thursday thru Sunday and then video and multimedia intensive in Lahti (joint project with LAMK …
This is not an eulogy. This is not so much about Apple or the man — Steve Jobs — either. This is about the paradigm shift he introduced which people don’t seem to get. And this is about our future. But: I cannot write this without paying homage to somebody I have always respected immensely. I choose to …
The repulsive dog-vomit published by HS last week really bothered me (ref. to my previous post), then some personal hate-mail, the death of a someone dear to me… Put it this way: I’ve had better weeks than the previous one. I really have. So I thought: I want to share and write something positive. Show that life is not only gloomy …
Need I say more? And no, that is not the official logo… it is a work in progress. Face it: when it comes to multimedia — be it linear or non-linear — Finland is not the country to live in. Multimedia storytelling simply does not exist here. We are next to Albania when it comes to rich …
The iPad is now totally integrated into my daily workflow. I’ve talked about ShutterSnitch in my two previous posts — it totally rocks — and I’ve been promising to write about the future of the print on these devices one of these days… And I will, but before that, a quick post on two workflow solutions I thought …
About two weeks ago I was surfing the net and I stumbled on this image on a Helsinki Times page. “Nice HDR-work” was my initial reaction (took me c. two seconds) and then, WTF? Byline with photographer and STT/Lehtikuva/Reuters… What was this? I got interested, googled this particular photographer just to see if this was his style in general. …
The best benefit of teaching IMHO is the fact that you learn yourself so much. And when trying to pass this information further, one naturally tries to formulate one’s thoughts as clearly as one can. Doing linear storytelling thru images — and trying to teach it — I have come up with a half a dozen rules — or call …
Today is the opening day of the games. I finally feel I am getting my bearings so to speak and I’m ready for the days ahead. I shot some ski jumping today, the qualifying round of the normal hill and not very much anything else. Pissing rain for the most part — but for a moment (a very brief …