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Taking these photos took just couple of minutes with my minimalistic strobist setup. Enjoy

Mobile phone as light source
I wanted to do a “real” self portrait because I anyway do many (photographic!) experiment with myself, but those images will (hopefully? definitely?) never be seen by anyone else. Since I like playing with light I thought I might as well show that in my self portrait. My Nokia 1100 Mobile [...]

Here is my animation and rendering demo reel.

This is a user manual I wrote for a radio controlled motorcycle. All the CAD data in images was created with Pro/ENGINEER. Icons and some texts were added in CorelDraw and final page layout was done in PageMaker.

This is a product catalog I did for Ensto Control Oy. The images were rendered in LightWave from exported Pro/ENGINEER data. Page layout is done with PageMaker.

I made a mental ray shader and small utility program to capture and display rays during rendering. It’s just a proof of concept (and a proof that I can still code, if I need to…). The shader operates as environment shader, so it sees all fired rays. It uses a named pipe to send ray data. [...]

This is an image of electrical enclosures I made for a client. LightWave 5.6 + Okino PolyTrans for converting the original Pro/ENGINEER data.

The current banner image
The chili image was shot using available light with Canon A520. Large window acted as a softbox. No fill reflectors, as much of the red color on chili peppers was generated by translucency (using white fill would have resulted in less saturation).
The first banner image
The banner image is taken from top of Halti. [...]