tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34520401327666642302011-09-21T16:42:51.769+03:00Rami Lappalainenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554204912653553670noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452040132766664230.post-28599463925205617632011-06-20T00:05:00.002+03:002011-06-20T00:06:35.286+03:00

I have started a new blog in finnish in this address http://valokuvaajaramilappalainen.fiI realized that if I want to express my thoughts well it's better to write it in my real language. If you are not speaking any finnsih you can try to use google translator, sometimes it works really well!I will keep these posts alive because somebody might find them usefull. Have a great time, hope we could

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It´s now two weeks after the Red Bull Photo Workshop in Norway, Haugastol. It was nice to meet some new colleagues and discuss about photographic scene in different parts of Europe. Partly it felt a bit too hectic as we all were also shooting the Red Bull Ragnarok snowkiting event, would have preferred a bit more time to relax in sauna and maybe enjoy some red wine with colleagues:)Later I heard

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I used part of my holiday recently shooting some video footage in Fuerte Ventura, Canary Islands.Actually I prefer to call these short video clips as a motion photos. Camera is not moving but there is some movement in the images which make these clips to stand out without any editing or music. The sound of the nature creates all necessary voices.I found this work with video exciting and a natural

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Well known snowboarding photographer Scott Serfas is doing nice work creating a cover for Transworld Snowboarding magazine. Huge load of work but sometimes it´s really a worth it!TransWorld SNOWboarding April 2011 Cover from TransWorld SNOWboarding on Vimeo.

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Just back from a trip to Spain and super exhausted...Hurttacollection dogwear new product line needed some photos for the packages, brochure and print adds, so we decided to skip a too cold finnish winter and moved our ass's towards somewhat warmer locations in southern Spain.6 days of travelling and shooting in beautiful locations yielded to quite spectacular images!Although it's always a bit

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I am not really a big fan of art photography. Mainly because I have seen so much blurry shit which has been considered as art only because it´s blurry and shaky. The technical abilities are the main factor of photography. Think for example Ansel Adams! His pictures are so powerful just because of the sophisticated b/w technique he used in his exposures.Also a good idea can make the difference and

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Today was a great day working outside the office doors. It was a perfect winter day with temperatures -17C and full on sunshine the whole day!I was again shooting with Red Bull Open Ice crew. Beside taking pictures it was a good moment to watch some hardcore "pond hockey". The rules are simple no checking, no slapshots, just having fun on the natural ice!

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I just arrived from Canarias to this dark piece of land situated so north that even cocroaches don´t live here. Don´t ever think again why we skandinavians can be a bit withdrawn sometimes:) Luckily when the sun comes up again in april, it doesn´t go down until august!I found a nice piece of flowchart designed to help creatives all around world, made by great illustrator Jessica Hische Keep these

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I wanted to send out some Christmas greetings from Fuerte Ventura!I am spending my holiday here for surfing and filming some video footage for a release of new products for 2011.So all of you my friends; Feliz Navidad as spanish people tend to say at this time of year!

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I think the sentence above is the main important factor when you consider something as art. Have to admit that I don´t know shit about art but I have always counted my eyes. I don´t need somebody to say if something is art or not, if it´s cool a will dig it, but I also understand why somebody else doesn´t.I just visited Reina Sofia and saw a huge collection from Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. I

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Check out the recent behind the scenes documentary of Hurttacollection shoot. Some nice furry animals out there!In The Shoot with Rami Lappalainen from Rami Lappalainen on Vimeo.

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There has been recent news about people who are trying to balance more carefully between the job and leisure. That´s nothing more than basic human sense of balancing life, but nowadays named neatly as "downshifting".Especially if you work as an entrepreneur and have to decide your action only by yourself, you definitely need to concentrate to balance your time usage that you don´t burn yourself

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I was meant to write this update even earlier but it didn´t come public until now. Red Bull contacted me in june if I would be interested to shoot finnish top chef Hans Välimäki for them - I was pretty amazed again, how an earth Red Bull could be interested about food and Hans Välimäki?Red Bull Hangar-7 is a hefty "home" of Red Bull in Salzburg airport in Austria. A huge contemporary glass dome

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Everybody knows that the digital era has changed everything in photo business. At least the photographers who have been around when it was only you, darkroom and that beautiful red light.The whole business is kind of struggling all over the world. Recent recession is definitely not helping things to evolve and many newspapers and magazines are concentrating to take care of their website more than

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Just came back from a shoot with Citroen WRC Rally Team. Soon it´s time for Finnish WRC rally in Jyväskylä.It was nice to see the press reactions about French rally star Sebastian Loeb and also our own boy Kimi Räikkönen who decided to drop out from F1 to concentrate full time for rally.Everybody was rushing to get any, I mean ANY, pictures of Kimi. I guess Sebastian was a bit annoyed that all

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So what a photographer does in summer? Shoots add campaigns for Coca Cola and some editorials for Vogue? Hell yeah!NOT...Almost everybody is getting married in summer time and off course they need somebody to cover the most important day of their live. I have been doing these wedding gigs multiple times per summer and "pro bono publico" off course. Every spring I have decided that I will keep my

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Thank god it´s summer. After a busy april/may it was time to relax and enjoy the short but beautiful finnish summer.According the statistics it´s normal that we have 4 days above +25C per summer (sounds bit weird right?) but these last 3 weeks have blown out the records for many years! I am sitting on my wooden boat waiting for the dinner, it´s 21.00 and it´s still +29C. If this would be the

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Just back from a trip to Norway and Sweden. Weather sucked big time and it was sure the coldest times ever for an outdoor shoot. Just checked out the new Freeskier (US) and two complete spreads were dedicated to my recent pics about urban skiing in Helsinki.

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BAD SERVICE SUCKS!Isn´t the customer always right? Well here I am, the customer!!!That was a line from a movie (which name I don´t remember...) The point was that when the customer comes to the store to buy some goods, the salesman have to be ready to serve the customer in any ways possible. At least that was the case some ten years ago in Finland.Today everything has changed. You are a customer

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ADOBE LIGHTROOM 2 VERSUS 3Adobe launched some time ago a beta version of their upcoming version of the Lightroom 3. Of course I downloaded and installed it immediately, but didn´t have time to give it a try before my dear 2.6 version crashed and my original database was wasted too. I was on a trip shooting some backyard ice-hockey for Red Bull and I wanted to give it a try.I was also using the

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In 2001 Apple published a computer targeted for high-end professional users. Their Cube project was simply way before it´s time. Consumers just did not understand how a computer can be so small and still could work normally. The price was a bit hefty also and this project ended before it even begun.I found my Cube many years ago. I just wanted to have it. I don´t know why. I can´t use it anymore

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Just received Canon EF 24-70/2.8 lens. It´s kind of old model (2002) from Canon, and sure it´s not an obvious choice for everybody. Previously I used EF 24-105/4 a lot and was pretty satisfied of the quality it produced. There are many 24-70 vs. 24-105 tests available but there was no winner announced in any of them.After just one day with this marvellous lens I have to admit that it´s most

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Job done! Yakill Reyes Ramu was winner and earned a free trip to Cape Town world finals. This guy is actually really talented and motivated so we might hear about him in future.It was really nice assignment to shoot freestyle soccer. I like combining the urban location and soccer player. These new kind of sports kick ass big time!

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Sorry for not updating for a long time... Summer is almost over in Finland, autumn is knocking on the door. Right now I am travelling Finland with Red Bull Streetstyle crew. Freestyle soccer might be the next big thing in the world. See some pics and more from official Red Bull site http://www.redbull.com/ Today it´s time for Jyväskylä qualifier @ Karma and 12.9 Helsinki qualifier and finals @

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The Luminous Landscape published a story or actually more or less a research about how things have changed after the first digital camera was published. It´s written by Christian Sandström who is Ph.D candidate at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Besides the knowledge about technology he is pretty damn enthusiastic about short history of digital era. The story is long,

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Just finished shoots in Kytäjä Golf. We were doing pics for Rukka`s Golf cataloque and advertisements. Pretty fun job to stay outdoors when the sun is shining and it´s warm enough to weat just a T-shirt! You know it´s usually pretty cold here in Finland and it´s a big deal for us if it´s over 20 degrees of celsius:)Because of the huge size of Kytäjä golf course I was wondering how to get

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Just checked out the new promising blog by New York Times. The Lens which they call it will focus on the most interesting, visual and multimedia reporting. It´s a showcase for the Times photographers but also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers and magazines.Most propably it will be one of the major photography blogs in future. Right now it seeems to be a bit confusing and just "

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Usually working as a professional photographer mean long days, huge amount of pressure and just enough money to get things going on. Usually people think that this is a most interesting job in the world - I guarantee It´s not...I usually shoot round 100 assignments per year. Most of the pictures are just basic images for certain companies to help their products sell more and more. There is

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Many people ask me yearly what would be the correct camera for general photography. I will always write loooong emails regarding it to various people. So this time I want to give some advices how to pick up a right camera for a certain kind of usage.1. First you have to think do you just want to document what is happening in your life or do you want to take it seriously and start taking pics as a

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Today is a finnish Labour Day when everybody gets wasted - so perfect time to talk about booze:)Stopp press: finnish brewery Sinebrychoff (Koff) has published a beer called Surfer. This is pretty weird because in Finland we have maybe two hundred "so called surfers" and maybe ten surfers...It´s weird also if you think general rules of marketing. At least in Finland. Pretty hardcore idea for a

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The action sports scene is now packed of different kind of competition concepts. If you think about a bit how everything started in action sports round 40 years ago, it´s not too hard to understand that these Ride & Film & Photography contests and sessions are the most precious ones nowadays.The Ambühl Invitational was started by Arosa skicenter. They wanted a late season competition or session

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Two weeks ago I moved the office to new premises in Helsinki. Suvilahti Kaasutehdas is an old gas factory close to Helsinki center. It´s owned by city and the basic idea is to develop the art scene in Helsinki to provide good premises to various artists around. There are painters, writers, photographers, media consultants etc. so the area should be a nice place in future for the people who have

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To be not too tech orienteed my focus is also write about my work as a professional photographer.I just finalized shootings in the Ruka skicenter which is located near lapland in the northern Finland. Ruka is one of the major skicenters in scandinavia and has also a huge developing process going on.As I am used to shoot action sports like skiing and cataloque shoots, it was yet challenging but

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I am a definite mac user. I like how they design their softwares, as user friendly as possible. I haven´t had any serious complaints about Apple products ever since I just bought the iPhone 3G...Normally when take the Apple product from the package you can use it right away. Or at least you don´t have do any serious install or mounting routines. This wasn´t the case with iPhone. I wanted to mount

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I have used digital cameras since 2000. The first model I used was 5 megapixel Canon (don´t remember the model) which was kind of shitty in quality wise but usable for many occasions. In eight years the digital world has evolved so that I nowadays shoot with 21 megapixel bulldog which shoots 5 frames per second. Quite promising right?Many professional photographers have spent thousands of euros

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