Love Nebula – an engagement teaser and Nikon D800E mini review:)

A little teaser from Gloria and Mike’s Engagement photo session at Appleford Estate and one of the first pictures with my new camera Nikon D800E.

For the photographers out there I’ll just say that I LOVE this thing!!! Let me add though that this camera is really optimized for RAW shooters.

This thing produces The UGLIEST JPEG files I’ve seen since the Nikon D200 era:))) It has a terrible White Balance and on top of that the new screen they put on the back of the camera has an awful color representation! It seems that the technology is not quite where a beautiful JPEG can be produced directly in the camera with 36MP sensor!

Once I opened the RAW files, though, my jaw literally hit the floor! I’ve never before, seen more beautiful files made in 35mm camera!

Ergonomics of the body are excellent! Menus are nimble and responsive! One should be very careful with focusing though! At 36MP every slight camera/subject movement or not quite sharp focus is very apparent! When you nail the focus though the result is simply astonishing!

I’m sorry I don’t have more pictures for now, but I have no time nor desire of writing gear reviews with all the sample images and so on… I just wanted to share my very first impressions of this wonderful machine! So let’s just hope that the good pictures are yet to come:)

I’d like to finish this mini review of Nikon D800E with a special thanks to Gloria and Mike for keeping up the good energy even when a thunderstorm interrupted their engagement session:) Only because of the heavy rain and all the fog we were able to get this image that reminds me of a nebula in the deep space! Let’s call it the Love Nebula:)))

cheers

Kitee and Gregg’s Engagement Session, Mercer Museum

It was a 1000 degree below zero that day so we shot almost the entire session inside Mercer museum, Doylestown, PA. Thankfully, they let us do that:) Kitee and Gregg were in Doylestown just for the Holidays. They live in Hong Kong and are not used to the freezing temperatures. Of course that day was one of the coldest:)
I love the colors winter sun gave us though! No Photoshop was used on any of the pictures whatsoever.

Make sure you watch the slideshow in Fullscreen HD:)

 

Fearless!

Who are the boldest and most fearless photographers in the world?  Well, apparently I am one of them:)  Just couple of days ago I learn that I won 3  awards from Fearless Photographers!!! What Fearless Photographers is?! It’s a website where photographers from all over the world compete every 3 months or so with their most creative work. That was the first time for me to participate and I’m very happy to share the great honor with you!!!

Here is what the curators say: “Photographers don’t pay to put their images on this unique directory. Instead, they submit their most innovative work to be selected by our internationally-renowned curators. Only the best of the best – the top 10% of all submitted images – are shown.

Thank you, Fearless Photographers! I can’t wait for the next Round!

International Photographic salon Varna 2010

4 of my photographs are selected for the final exhibition of the prestigious  International Photographic Salon Varna 2010!!! Needless to say how happy I am to see my pictures next to the other great work! The exhibition will travel several Bulgarian cities and then the photographs will be printed into the Catalog 2010. Can’t wait to get one:))) If you want to see some stunning images please, visit the site and click Final Selection

Here are my winning images!

zoOMAble pleasure for Nikon Fans!

Zoom-able photos to give you a better idea about the quality of  Nikon cameras and lenses I use. All pictures are taken with Nikon D700 + lenses from 17 mm to 200mm. Please, click on the thumbnail then press the button on right to enter Full Screen Mode. Use your mouse to navigate.

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