This is home page of Juha Valimaki. You can see some details about me on my About me page. Site content is mostly published as blog posts. You can find the posts under Categories on the right or you can use the search box (on the right also).
Topics include 3D graphics, CAD software, photography and life in general.
I recently bought Elinchrom Skyport universal trigger set. Unfortunately it wasn’t fully compatible with my Sigma EF-530 DG Super flash. I got on average about 50% success rate and that’s really unusable for shooting anything that moves. I finally managed to find a solution: a single capacitor short circuiting the trigger. This same fix might [...]
Yet another quick and minimalistic strobist shot. I had off-camera flash in my left hand with white A4 sized paper folded to make a simple light softener. The flash was just outside the frame so relatively speaking it was a big light source…
Our daughter has this toy tea set with all the primary colors. I just had to combine all the colors and take couple of quick strobist shots.
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Our daughter has this toy tea set with all the primary colors. I just had to combine all the colors and take couple of quick strobist shots.
This image is now available as photographic print through deviantART. Click here to buy the image.
This is how I get some co-operation with my cats. It’s some sort of meaty stick and as long as there is even the smell in the air the cats will stay around.
Another lucky shot of Sopuli. I don’t like the way she appears to be floating in mid air, but with cats I am satisfied when I have the whole animal in frame and eyes are in focus.
She is a small cat inside a big ball of fur. She is living with Juuso who is about three times as heavy (2.5kg vs 7kg), but she has fierce mentality to balance things.
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This image was done when Juuso was happily sitting on his favourite white chair. On-camera strobe was bounced off ceiling and exposure was adjusted to give nice shine without overexposing whites. The chair was mostly overexposed and needed just a little tweaking to make it completely white.
There are many ways to interpret this image: Outsiders can be as valuable as insiders, inside groups there can be outsiders, … Of course, I didn’t think about any of these things when I made the image . The image was done quickly without greater planning, but I like the result.
One of our cats, Juuso. This was interesting image to make. I had black velvet on floor. The plan was to get one of the cats to pose nicely on it. The only problem was that the cats were not co-operating… I had been shooting about one hour already with no keeper shots. I think [...]