After a long break, I took part in a photography course organized by Ilmonet in April 2026. The course was held online in four three-hour sessions. Between the sessions, we worked on photography assignments at home, which I have compiled below. During the course, we explored the work of contemporary photographers and discussed the technical […]
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I took my new camera on a photowalk earlier this week to practice its basic functions. I had already scanned the 342-page manual a few times, and now it was time to put the theory into practice. Besides the camera, I quite enjoyed the perfect winter atmosphere of the Helsinki coast/harbor.
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Photography studies continue in the autumn of 2023: Environmental portrait photography, Landscape photography in Suomenlinna, and Advanced digital photography course. Attached is the Autumn ‘student work’ from the advanced digital photography course.
I have been studying photography since the fall of 2022 at the adult education centers in the Helsinki metropolitan area and at the Helsinki Summer University. The courses continue this fall in 2023. Below are pictures from a three-day course on “Landscape Photography in Suomenlinna” during the autumn of 2023. During the course, we went
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I found an old photo from my photo archive from the early 2000s of a monk pointing out the San Andreas Fault on Highway 280 south of San Francisco. I tried to ‘fix’ the photo in the Photoshop and then in the Luminar Neo. Both original and ‘improved’ are below side by side. You may
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In the coming week I’ll be focusing on photography. On Monday and Tuesday, I’ll be continuing my course on the basics of Photoshop. On Wednesday, I’ll be studying digital photography and finally on Thursday, I’ll be taking studies in WordPress. Although I already know the basics (and more) of these topics, I’d like to start
