It’s been two years!

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Time is flying relentlessly fast. I’ve just thought I was here two years now. Different things were happening at that time, a lot has changed. In some areas, have made good progress in the other, unfortunately, failed to change anything. Fortunately, it can always be better – I hope so.
In connection with my presence on this blog, I had the opportunity lead a workshops: “Photoblog – how to present your photos online?”. Conducting such a meeting was quite a challenge, because I never did anything like that. On the fourth occasion already gone quite well. I will say that even much I loved it :)
Workshops were conducted during the photo festival. Samsung was the patron of the event.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/320s │ f5.0 │ 64.0mm │ ISO 200

Going back to my presence on this blog, it all started in April 2009. Then I received the camera WB1000 – I did it a lot of pictures, now, my wife took the camera:) Here are a lot of photos taken WB1000.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/250s │ f8.0 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/125s │ f8.0 │ 50mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/160s │ f4.0 │ 50mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/125s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/125s │ f5.0 │ 89mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/320s │ f9.0 │ 33mm │ ISO 100

Therefore, that enjoyed the photos I received after some time the next proposal. It was a long-awaited and shrouded in mystery Samsung NX10. I will tell you that this is a super feeling to have something that many have heard of but nobody has ever seen it.
With NX has already done more than 10,000 pictures, and soon I am going for a long awaited vacation, so probably will bring a few hundred pictures. Someone might say that 10,000 is not enough, but I still have a second camera  Samsung EX1 counter shows more than 4000 :D
One of my photographic achievements is to get into well-known Getty Images – I currently have over 180 pictures for sale. Of course, I invite you to buy ;)

Samsung NX10 │ 1/160s │ f8.0 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/160s │ f4.3 │ 64mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/160s │ f5.6 │ 75mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/125s │ f5.6 │ 200mm │ ISO 200

Samsung NX10 │ 1/100s │ f3.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/400s │ f8.0 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/250s │ f11.0 │ 200mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/2s │ f22.0 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/250s │ f7.1 │ 54mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/250s │ f6.3 │ 130mm │ ISO 100

Photos above are from cities, Lodz and Warsaw.
From a photographic point of view, the most expected for me is a macro lens, which should appear soon, and maybe the successor NX10 ;) So for now macro lens is the 20mm or 50-200mm with macro lens +4 :D

Samsung NX10 │ 1/15s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10

Samsung NX10 │ 1/80s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 200

Samsung NX10 │ 1/80s │ f6.3 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 0.600s │ f5.6 │ 200mm │ I0SO 100

And as always for end Natasha :)

Samsung EX1 │ 1/180s │ f1.8 │ 5.2mm │ ISO 80

Of course, I invite everyone to visit my Flickr, where is a lot more pictures.
BR
Daniel
P.S Thanks Sammy ;)

Fat Katherine

Samsung Electronics has provided the author of this article with the mentioned digital imaging device.

Once in a while one of the Warsaw’s newspaper is organizing the so-called Photo Day.
Previous to that I was, took place in the Electro-Heating and some pictures is here:

http://www.samsungimaging.net/2010/11/11/nx10_one-two-freddys-coming-for-you/

This time the expedition was to the “Fat Katherine.”

Samsung NX10 │ 1/60s │ f3.2 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

It is one of the water intakes for Warsaw. It is set in a river some 200 meters from the shore. One way to measure the entrance to the underground tunnel is a passage of about 300 meters.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/80s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 400

Samsung NX10 │ 1/100s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 400

This time the tour was not enough and fast, just like the time for pictures. I did what I could, with the NX10 and EX1. In the dark corners good job was with 20mm lens, and sometimes flash.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/2s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 200

Samsung NX10 │ 1/40s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 200

Samsung NX10 │ 1/60s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 400

Samsung NX10 │ 1/100s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/60s │ f5.6 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/50s │ f4.3 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/30s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1.300s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1.000s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 200

Samsung NX10 │ 1/15s │ f2.8 │ 20mm │ ISO 200

Samsung NX10 │ 1/50s │ f4.0 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

And last three my love Natasha :D

Samsung NX10 │ 1/320s │ f4.0 │ 50mm │ ISO 400

Samsung NX10 │ 1/80s │ f10.0 │ 20mm │ ISO 100

Samsung EX1 │ 1/90s │ f1.8 │ 5.2mm │ ISO 80

Unbelievable Paper Remote Controller

Unbelievable Paper Remote Controller

Can you believe that a piece of paper controls the camera, NX100?
Do you want to find hidden trick?
Just watch the video clip.
HAHAHAHA :D

Tortelloni with mushroom filling

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For my final blog post I decided to cook something again. The recipe I’ll be making is tortelloni with mushroom filling and a simple butter sauce with salvia and lemon. A typical Italian dish!

Samsung NX10 │ 1/2s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Ingredients for 2 people:

250 g flour (special flour for pasta labeled “00″ or “doppio zero”)
2 1⁄2 eggs
125 g french mushrooms (the round white ones)
100 grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
1/2 clove of garlic
1 shallot
butter
2 leafs of salvia
a hint of lemon

First, we’ll make the filling for the tortelloni. Cut up the shallot and garlic and squeeze the garlic pieces so the juice comes out. Melt some butter in a pan and add the shallot and garlic. Let them fry on a low heat until they get slightly brownish.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/2s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

In the meantime, we can cut up the mushrooms. Just cut them up in four big pieces and then add them to the pan.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/15s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 480

Add pepper, no salt. You can add quite a lot of pepper, make it nice and spicy. The filling will give the tortelloni most of its flavour.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/25s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 400

Smells good! But of course we can’t use it in this shape for our filling. It’s time to get the blender out and cut up it until it’s a nice soft paste.

Samsung NX10 │ 1.000s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Samsung NX10 │ 1.000s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Samsung NX10 │ 1.000s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Since we want a much dryer filling, we’ll have to add one more ingredient: Parmigiano-Reggiano. I love this cheese. Mix all of the cheese with the mushroom filling in a bowl or pot and you’ll notice how it gets dry and salty, just perfect!

Samsung NX10 │ 0.800s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Samsung NX10 │ 0.800s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Samsung NX10 │ 1/2s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Put the filling in the fridge, it’ll thicken up a bit more in there and in the meantime we can start to make our pasta dough.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/4s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Put all of the flour on a kitchen worksurface and make a small pile with a hole in the center. Somewhat like a volcano. In the center, add the eggs. With a fork we can now beat the eggs gently, until they are mixed.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/5s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

After that, gently start mixing the flour with the eggs, step by step, using your hands. The result is a nice soft pasta dough!

Samsung NX10 │ 1/3s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Samsung NX10 │ 1/20s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Get your rolling pin and start rolling the dough until it’s only a few millimeters in thickness. It’s quite tricky, you might want to look for some video tutorials to see how it’s done. It was my first time also and dividing my ball of dough in half wasn’t such a good idea afterwards…

Samsung NX10 │ 1/3s │ f7.1 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Now cut up the sheet of dough into squares of about 5 x 5 centimeters. Get the filling out of the fridge and put small amounts of it on the squares of dough.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/3s │ f7.1 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Samsung NX10 │ 1/2s │ f2.5 │ 30mm │ ISO 100

Shaping the tortelloni is somewhat difficult. You basically fold the squares diagonally to a triangle, then fold the two tips on the long side and connect them together while wrapping them around a finger. It’s impossible to explain in words, so again, it’s a good idea to check for videos online.

If the dough is a bit too dry because you used too much flour, you could use a tiny bit of beaten egg to use as a “glue”.

Samsung NX10 │ 1.600s │ f5.6 │ 30mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/45s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 1600

All ready to be cooked!

Samsung NX10 │ 10.000s │ f13.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 100

Samsung NX10 │ 1/3s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 100

For the sauce, we’re making a very simple traditional butter, salvia and lemon juice mix. Melt some butter, add a hint of lemon and chop up some leafs of salvia and add them. Boil some water and add the fresh tortelloni.

Samsung NX10 │ 1/13s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 800

Samsung NX10 │ 1/40s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 400

Samsung NX10 │ 1/15s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 400

When the tortelloni start floating in the boiling water, they’re ready. Drain them and put them on a plate. Add the warm butter mix and finish it off with some leafs of salvia. Buon appetito!

Samsung NX10 │ 1/25s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 400

Samsung NX10 │ 1/40s │ f2.0 │ 30mm │ ISO 400