Helmut Newton

 The other night I watched Helmut By June, a HBO documentary about one of my favorite photographers: Helmut Newton. The film is filmed and directed by Helmut Newton’s wife June Newton, (who's also a gifted photographer, working under the alias Alice Springs) from "home" videos she took while joining him on assignments and while filming him alone.

Review: The Mighty Yongnou RF-603

 Once you start using of camera flash, pretty soon you get to a point where you'll need a way to trigger your flash. And when a cord just won't do it, you'll want a wireless trigger. After doing some digging around I figured Pocket Wizard Plus is probably the best one can buy. But that again, spending over 700NIS for a single Rx/Tx unit was not really an option.  Considering the fact you need at least 2 to do anything, it's a lot of money.  Luckily, there is a decent option for much less.

Review: Trying out the Yongnuo YN-560II

In Russian there's a saying the goes: "I am not rich enough to buy cheap things!" (and widely accepted there as an old English saying).
Well I decided I might just be rich enough to buy a Yongnuo YN-560II flash and hope for the best!

My new YN560-II napping...

50mm lens Comparison

"I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.”

-William Albert Allard

 Like most of Canon SLR users I own the Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II lens. I decided to check how this 'nifty-fifty' lens compares to my other, much older, manual 50mm lens.

Pushkar, India, 2012

7 Photography Tips for a Beginner

Digital photography made it easier than ever to get into the medium. If you feel ready to move on from using your mobile or a compact point-and-shoot camera as your main tool of taking photos, but not sure what to do, this post is for you!

Tel Aviv, 2013

Taking the plunge into Photography

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

 Probably not one of Cartier-Bresson's first 10,000 photos.  

"Behind Saint-Lazare Station", Paris, France, 1932

Some people are afraid to seriously get into photography or just to take that step from using the camera on full manual to start controlling more parameters by yourself. I was once in the same situation. I thought sharing my dilemmas at the time might help people to take the first step.

Photo City

Sound City is an excellent documentary, that talks among other things about the affect that technology had on the music industry and the way people make music. As a photo enthusiast, I thought about the similarities between making music and taking photos.

Welcome to Double Exposure

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”

― Henri Cartier-Bresson

Being a photographer you're always looking to get better at it. Whether it's improving your technical skills, getting inspired by great photographers, learning new tricks in Photoshop or treating yourself to new equipment.

I guess these are the stuff I want to talk about here and hopefully learn things in the process.