When I ran into an article about HDR, I was curious. Playing with it got me some conclusions, and I can’t wait to take more pictures and use it more.
One of my most important conclusions was to always photo shoot a landscape in RAW mode. This is much easier most of the time than getting 3 different exposures of the same scene.
The second conclusion, is to always take a picture in low ISO values, otherwise the HDR will come out too grainy.

So I’m just at the begining, but it looks like a fun journey
Here are some images I got the chance to play with.

(Needless to say, they both enjoyed this pita )

1. I have over 25,000 views on my Flickr which is really cool and surprising When I first opened it and created a Pro account on last January, I wondered if this photography hobby is a temporary thing or if this should last, unlike my other hobbies. I’m glad to say it stayed, and that I am indeed getting better. And hearing that from friends and family feels absolutely great

2. I found this set while I was searching for another. This one was taken on Passover’s Sedder Night a year ago, with spontaneous lighting. Her smiles come from us singing that she’s actually a dolphin.
Next week it will be exactly a year since I took these pictures. I was sure it’s been longer, but it’s been only a year.
This darling has gone through so much this year – she moved to a new house, turned four, started to see full length ‘scary’ disney movies (I really waited for this one – she looooved Monsters Inc ) and… yeah, she even got a baby sister a month ago.

So here’s the set. God, I love this kid
I wonder if I’ll be able to convince her to create a new set this year too, in the same place and lighting (she’ll probably give me that look that says ‘haven’t we taken enough pictures of me already???‘).

My latest birthday gift from Moran and Rina was definitely one of those

I was told in advance I’d be kidnapped on Friday, so I shouldn’t make any plans.
The instructions were to wear comfy (yet not embarrassing) clothes, bring my camera and tripod, and well, me .

They picked me up early on Friday morning and refused to tell me where we’re headed.
I soon realized we’re heading up north, but I didn’t know just how much north…

We made a few stops along the way – to shoot some pictures of the things we saw along the way, and to have a small, pre-breakfast picnic in one of the prettiest places I’ve ever seen.

The destination to all that journey was a pretty, intimate restaurant with a stunning view and delicious food.

This was definitely one of the best birthday gifts ever . Click here to see the pictures from that day.

While I don’t take as many pictures of her as I did when my first niece was born,
at least my SLR makes sure they’re in better quality

Here’s some pictures from that first set I took, when she was 5 days old.

Happy Birthday, kid, and welcome to the family

See the rest of the set here.

I just wanted a place where I could show recently taken pictures with some notes and information.

While I’m happy to use flickr as a storage site, I hate their lack of creativity, hence – my photography blog.

Some of you might wonder (like I’m sure my sister will) – why the hack does she write in English? Well, that’s what I feel like doing. Deal with it

Enjoy, and don’t hesitate to drop me a line and say what you think about this place.

taltal.

I wondered which of my favorite pictures I was going to use for this first post – this one won: my niece, 3 1/2 at that time. You can actually feel her joy.