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Complexul Memorial Şerpeni (Serpeni Headbridge Memorial) HDR
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Complexul Memorial Şerpeni (Serpeni Headbridge Memorial) HDR

August 9, 2010

Yesterday (8th of August) I decided to go for a drive and ended up at the Şerpeni Memorial, roughly 65km away from Chişinău. First we went to Bulboaca village,...

  • Complexul Memorial Şerpeni (Serpeni Headbridge Memorial) HDR

    Complexul Memorial Şerpeni (Serpeni Headbridge Memorial) HDR

    August 9, 2010

    Yesterday (8th of August) I decided to go for a drive and ended up at the Şerpeni Memorial, roughly 65km away from Chişinău. First we went to Bulboaca village,...

  • Caught in the action

    Caught in the action

    June 7, 2010

    Two days ago I had the chance to catch this young cat on a fence, in a small Ukrainian village. Just look at his attitude :) P.S. my 18-55mm lens was on, the bokeh...

  • Quick Photo Session in the Park with Alina and Snejana

    Quick Photo Session in the Park with Alina and Snejana

    May 21, 2010

    About 2 weeks ago I finally visited the Dendrarium Park (Chisinau, Moldova) for the first time in my life :) Thankfully I had two beautiful girls with me, Alina...

  • 30+ Stunning HDR Hotel Photos, Turkey 2010

    30+ Stunning HDR Hotel Photos, Turkey 2010

    May 3, 2010

    During the period 24/04 – 01/05 I went on a small vacation to Turkey. My main point of interest was to take some cool HDR photos of different structures as...

 

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Sonya and Simba at HomeFebruary 22, 2010

Yesterday I took some more photos of my two cats, Simba and Sonya. I just can’t have enough of them :)

In January 2010 I had the opportunity to take a quick 7-days vacation.
Destination: Hurghada, Egypt.
Hotel: Imperial Shams Abu Soma Resort 5* Hotel (Safaga).

I have already posted some HDR Photos of Imperial Shams Hotel, now it is time to post photos from the trip itself.

And as you cannot visit Egypt and not see the Pyramids, we had an excursion to Giza (Cairo) and took some photos of the Great Pyramid of Giza (of Kheops/Cheops), Pyramid of Khafre, The Great Sphinx, Mastabas, etc. If only the locals didn’t bother us as much as they did, the trip would have been MUCH more enjoyable.

Cairo itself is a very chaotic place, traffic is infernal! Do I want to visit it again? No, that’s for sure.

Imperial Shams Abu Soma Resort

During my vacation at Imperial Shams Hotel (Hurghada, Egypt) in January 2010, I tried taking a few HDR photos. Without too many preparations and zero experience, here is the result:

Imperial Shams, Hurghada, Egypt (HDR)

Each HDR consists of 3 photos with an exposure bracket of 2, processed with Photomatix Pro 3.

What do you think? Any advice?

During the first days of 2010 I had the opportunity of shooting my first organized indoor photo session. Alina, a friend of mine, was strong enough and stayed strong for over 3 hours of shooting.

I used the AF-S Nikkor 50mm F1.4G lens with a simple UV filter on my Nikon D5000 body, without any other additional equipment. Enjoy!

Indoor Photo Session with Alina

The Forbidden FruitJanuary 11, 2010

The Nikkor 50mm F1.4G lens can also do close-up shots, without any additional macro lens. I’m a bit surprised actually :)

Forbidden Fruit

Low Light PortraitJanuary 11, 2010

Here is a photo of a friend that I took under rather low light, with the AF-S Nikkor 50mm F1.4G lens. The bokeh is acceptable :)

Low Light Portrait

Simba’s Photo DebutJanuary 6, 2010

I wasn’t able to get good shots of my cat Simba with the 18-55mm VR lens, as it required slower shutter speeds. Fortunately, the new 50mm f/1.4G lens does the trick :)

Enjoy!

Simba's Photo Debut

Simba's Photo Debut

Simba's Photo Debut

One of the first shots I took with the new AF-S 50mm f/1.4G lens :)

Sonya Dreaming

Something about SonyaDecember 26, 2009

Yesterday I was lucky enough to catch Sonya in a good mood :)
Here are two of the shots I took:

Sonya (cat)

Sonya (cat)

 
 

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During the past few days I was thinking about getting myself a portrait-type lens for my Nikon D5000 camera. After some research, the choice fell on AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G, as other good portrait lens are out of my budget limit. After getting it I went...

A couple of days ago I had a small classmates reunion at which I was the only one taking shots with a DSLR (Nikon D5000), so people had some expectations for my photos :) Everything seemed fine, but then I got home and started checking / editing the...

Now, I should point out that I have no ‘professional’ photography experience. None. I had for a few years a simple Olympus mju 410 point-and-shoot camera which I bought many years ago, probably in 2003. After 6 *gasp* years of taking photos...

 
 

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