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Finnish Summer	1votes
July 10, 2008 10:19 PM	Views: 212 Favorited: 0 Comments: 2

	Filed Under: Short, Sony EX1
Tags: EX1, Finland, Finnish, Short, Sony, Summer

This early June I concluded my big American adventure and returned to Italy. I stayed there for a couple of days to settle a few things and then I flew to Finland for a few weeks. Of course I had in mind to shoot something over my permanence, so I switched my EX1 to 25P and brought it with me along with the Letus and lenses.

The beauty of Finnish summers is due to the fact that in countries of such latitude, in this time of the year, the sun barely sets. The consequence of this phenomenon is a stretching of the famous golden hour to quite a few hours. Between 8pm and 11pm you can see this marvelous soft, yellow light and these long crisp shadows "crawling" on the ground and everything looks fantastic. This also pushed my to do many time lapses, which I believe are pretty effective for these kinds of setups.

Most of the stuff is shot in the countryside around the city of Tampere (the city that you see in all the second portion's shots), the fire ceremony is part of the celebration of mid-summer (called Juhannus). My main idea was to portray the stillness and peace of this country, that I am very fond of.

Finnish Summer By Marco Menestrina
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Will Mahoney

July 11, 2008 12:52 PM

Marco,
This is a lovely little video. I really, really like the boating shots, especially the first one. You're focused on just the little nub at the bow and we see the water rushing by in the background. It was a very nice shot and even though there was very little actually in the picture, there is a lot going on and a lot of information. Nice.

Keep up the good work.