The Diary of Sauli Hirvi

Archive for November, 2009

Tilt Shift Is Not An Idea

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Sauli Hirvi

Repeat it con­stantly. “Tilt shift is not an idea…” It doesn’t look good and it’s stu­pid. “BUT IT MAKES BIG THINGS LOOK LIKE SMALL THINGS!” Below are just a few of the tilt shift advert­ising and videos made dur­ing this fad of late. I hope some­body com­bines the two stu­pid­est fads around: Tilt shift and […]

thesix­ty­one

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Sauli Hirvi

I signed up for thesixtyone.com a few whiles back and have been pos­it­ively sur­prised. It’s the first site I’ve seen that can be con­sidered a “Flickr for music.” It’s aimed at inde­pend­ent artists and the com­munity is delight­fully act­ive. There were a few nice ideas too: Artists can­not give “hearts” to other artists, only listen­ers. This […]

Our band

Posted on November 29th, 2009 by Sauli Hirvi

I have had two band prac­tices so far with my beau­ti­ful and tal­en­ted band­mate Semira (pic­tured below). Our first song is almost ready and a second one is also in the works. It’s fun work­ing with her, because she par­ti­cip­ates in the com­pos­ing too, which is more syn­ergy than what I’m accus­tomed to. Here’s hoping […]

Bought a new lens once again

Posted on November 29th, 2009 by Sauli Hirvi

SMC Pentax-M 100mm f2.8 to be pre­cise, shown below. With this, my rep­er­toire con­tains a 28mm, two 50mm’s, 100mm and a 80-200mm zoom. I went for a walk in Kata­jan­okka today and saw an old man going for a swim in the sea. Man­aged to snap two pho­tos of him. I also shot a test roll […]