Monthly Archives: September 2011

Kiddo mountain biking

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We have been biking quite a lot on the roads with Ode. As he is only three, I wasn’t expecting him to be mountain biking for the next few years. I was proven wrong yesterday! He insisted that I would take him to the local trails. I was expecting a bike pushing journey, but it turned out that he was really able to ride the trails! And today we had to go again. This time we had Odes buddy Kasper along. The kids mountain biked for one hour!! The rest of the shots from the trip: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-25+Fillarointia+Oden+ja+Kasperin+kanssa/

For tech geeks

I had my camera with Nikkor 85/1.8 lens along. The weather was quite cloudy, so it was pretty dark in the forest. That’s the reason I took along the 85/1.8 lens. There was no point in taking any flashes etc. along, as the reason for this trip was to mountain bike, not take photographs 🙂 

Flowers, spiders and other miracles of nature

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Last weekend we were at our country house. As usual I had my camera along. Some of the shots are at http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-18+Luontokuvia+landella/

For tech geeks:

Most of the macro shots are taken again with the Nikkor 50/1.4 with the 36mm extension tube. I tried to use the new led ringflash, but the light provided was not sufficient at all. I think that it will be one of those purchases that will end up at the back of the closet. 

The “still” water shots are taken with a ND8 and CP filters.

Ultimate photo shoot

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My sister plays ultimate and we have been planning to take some shots. Finally we were able to organize the photo shoot today. We had altogether three players and I was taking photos. The place is located near Tapiola, called Otsolahti. The location was chosen because it is the girls training ground. I was pretty satisfied with the results. All of the photos are at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-18+Aino+ultimate/

Thanks again for your extra effort girls!!! I really appreciate it!

For tech geeks

All photos are taken with three flashes. Two bare SB28s acting as rim lights and one SB80 through an umbrella with a 1/4 CTO gel as key. We got there about 45min before sunset, so the whole time ambient light was changing and it was bit of a challenge to adjust to the changing light. 

For these shots I used my 50-150/2.8 Sigma and Tokina 12-24/4.

Nature after rain

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Yesterday after windsurfing we went to the park with my son. It had just rained so took along my camera hoping to get some after rain macro shots. A couple of more shots can be found at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-14+Makroilua/

For tech geeks:

These are again taken with the Nikkor 50/1.4 lens with a 36mm extension tube. A led ring light is used to bring some more light. This was actually the first time I was trying out the ring light. I was a little disappointed at the amount of light it was giving out. But worked better than nothing. Next weekend I am looking forward to going to our summer place and getting some more practice with it.

Few shots of Henkka windsurfing

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Yesterday we had a good windy day. I got a chance to get a few quick shots of Henkka windsurfing. The reason I was not in water windsurfing myself was that my own boom broke at Melkki (about 1km southeast of Lauttasaari) and I had to swim back in the 10-15m/s wind pulling my gear behind me. Lesson: Never buy a used boom! 🙂

Unfortunately it was already so late when I finally got back ashore and got my camera out that Henkka was also finishing. I did not get a any shots of his back or front loops….sorry about that! We agreed to do a photo shoot during this autumn to get those on camera. So watch this space in the future.

The rest of the few photos are at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-14+Surffausta+Larussa/

For tech geeks:

Nothing special here, I just quickly got my Sigma 50-150/2.8 and snapped a few shots before Henkka finshed. 

 

 

 

New portrait for work

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As my appearance has changed a little, I decided to take a self portrait for work to be used on the web site etc. I would like people to be able to recognize me from the photo. 🙂

Old Antti New Antti

For tech geeks

The photo was taken with a remote controller. The camera was on a tripod and I had set the focus manually.

I had one shoot through umbrella as key light and two flashes to give light to the back ground. Kept it super simple.

 

Mountainbiking with Bikepoli crew

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Today instead of riding my bike, I decided to go and take some photos of our traditional Sunday ride. The plan was that I would meet the rest of the crew in the woods where I had a few ideas for shots. The rest of the shoot would be improvised. I got the shots, I was looking for plus extras. All in all a very good afternoon!

The whole set of photos can be found at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-11+Bikepoli+fillarointia/ . There is quite a lot of repetition in the photos as the riders want to see photos of themselves. Please bear with it.

For tech geeks

All shots have 1 to 3 external flashes that are triggered with Elinchrome skyports. I used my Sigma 50-150/2.8, Tamron 17-50/2.8, Tokina 12-24 and even a few shots are taken with Samyang 8mm fisheye.

Rain drops at Nuuksio

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Today we had a morning hike with our family in Nuuksio. It was really delightful to see that both of the older kids walked for almost 3 hours. Jenny found some mushrooms, kids ate blueberries and found treasures and I got to take some photos. Some of the photos can be found at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-10+Nuuksiossa/

For the tech geeks

I wanted to test how the electronic extension rings work with my Tamron 17-50/2.8 zoom lens. The 36mm extension ring was max. that could be used with the lens, otherwise the focus point would be inside the lens. 🙂

The above macro shot is taken with the Tamro lens and a 20mm extension ring.

 

 

 

 

Snails…

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Today I had 20 minutes before I had to be picking up Ode from his friends place. I decided to pop outside and see if there would be anything interesting to photograph. After rain our forest nearby was filled with snails. Snails and some other macro shots: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-09-06+Makroilua/

For tech geeks:

These photos are again shot with the 36mm extension ring and Nikkor 50/1.4 lens in available light.