Journal

Field Notes, Tutorials, and Case Studies

A growing archive of real-world photography notes, editing breakdowns, and behind the scenes articles from the field.

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New Video Tutorial - Day & Night
Resources 3 min read

New Video Tutorial - Day & Night

Happy New Year everyone! For the past two months, I have been working on my first pro video course Day & Night. In the tutorial, you will learn how to capture, create, edit and produce ideas for fine art photography and manipulations. It will be fast-paced, straight to the point learning exp

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First Snow
Behind the Photography 3 min read

First Snow

Feeling inspired by the first snowfall of the season, I headed to one of my favorite spots near our home. There is always something magical about the first snow and how it lights up the landscape.The heavy snowfall and the beauty of the landscapes with calm water made me appreciate the moment. In th

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Vacant Beach
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Vacant Beach

Vacant Beach is a series of images captured one August night after summer season on the deserted Yyteri beach, Finland I visited Yyteri Beach a couple of weeks ago. After walking down to the beach first thing I noticed was this bright source of light in the distance of the beach. It was a new resta

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Photography for Nokia 8
Features 3 min read

Photography for Nokia 8

I'm honored to have another of my images chosen as the main image for Nokia. This time for the new Nokia 8 smartphone. The image was created using my Vision of Depth technique, I teach in my eBook: Star Photography Masterclass. More about the photograph can be found here.

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Flow - Portugal
Behind the Photography 3 min read

Flow - Portugal

You might know that I love to capture night sky near a coastline. I traveled to Portugal to capture the beauty of night sky and the Atlantic Ocean. I was blown away by all of the little gems and beautiful seascape views in Portugal. This picture was captured near Telheiro a small beach. I spent my d

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What's in my camera bag - Edition
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What's in my camera bag - Edition

The most typical question I get is what do I currently use for my photography. So here is the version of the gear I use daily in my photography and also some unusual stuff such as my favorite books at the moment. Camera Bag Let's start with the obvious, the camera bag. I have used p

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How to Match Colors in Lightroom
Tutorial 3 min read

How to Match Colors in Lightroom

In this tutorial, you will learn how to match two photographs colors in Lightroom to create a composite image. We will take advantage of the new Reference View in the Lightroom CC Develop Module to see the images side by side. I chose cold colors to give this final image cool atmosphere.

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Star Photography Composite Tutorial
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Star Photography Composite Tutorial

We released a new tutorial in collaborating with JuusoHD. The tutorial contains information and step-by-step process how to blend night and day images together using Lightroom and Photoshop. You can view the tutorial here. YOU WILL LEARN How to Create Composite Milky Way and Night S

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Distant Land
Behind the Photography 3 min read

Distant Land

Last year I had the pleasure to visit Chile and the Torres Del Paine national park with Konsta Punkka and the crew. We stayed there for eight days and shot a mini-doc series Exploring Earth's first episodes. If you haven't seen the series, check it out here: Exploring Earth – Patagonia.

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Photography for the New Nokia SmartPhone
Behind The Scenes 3 min read

Photography for the New Nokia SmartPhone

I'm proud to see one of my pictures selected as the new Nokia smartphone default background! You may have seen it in various places. There is an addition of another of my images in the catalog of the phones backgrounds. The mobilephone actually sold out in a minute in China! Here is a vie

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