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Master Exposure Blending series now free

February 28, 2023 No Comments

Master Exposure Blending series now free

A while ago (actually quite a long while ago) I created and started selling a video tutorial series about HDR editing and luminosity masking. After a while, I decided to upload it whole for free, but somehow never got to doing so. But that changes today.

Content

The series includes over 2 hours of video, covering these toppics

1. Welcome
2. Preparing brackets in Lightroom
3. Working with layers and layer masks
4. Luminance masks explained
5. Creating luminance masks
6. Blending two exposures
7. Blending multiple exposures
8. Using Oloneo Photoengine
9. Using Photomatix Pro
10. Blending panoramic photos
11. Adding glow

I don’t go through the edit from start to finish on the provided photos, I rather focus on the blending technique of the images, which is the main subject of these videos.

Additionally, you can download all the videos and also the RAW files I’m using (28 in total), so you can try all the edits also for yourself.

Head over to the Master Exposure Blending page to get them now!

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AI-generated wallpapers

February 24, 2023 No Comments

AI-generated art

I have been playing around with AI-generated images in Midjourney recently, and I thought I share some with you. I wont be doing that mostly on this blog, as I would like to keep to photography here. But there is a new category under wallpapers here, AI-Generated wallpapers, and I also created a new Twitter account @hdrshooter-ai, where I will be sharing them. Feel free to follow me there.

Don’t forget to check out other available wallpapers:

4K wallpapers – Single Screen – Surface, 21:9 and dual-screen – Super ultra-wide – Mobile – AI-generated

32:9 and 4K walllpapers

And for the wallpapers I already shared, you can get them here. There are some in 32:9 (3440×1440) and standard 4K 21:9 (3840×2160) resolution.

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Wallpapers update

February 22, 2023 No Comments

Wallpapers update

Time to update the wallpapers section today. It’s been quite a while since I added new ones there :)

Don’t forget to check out other available wallpapers:

4K wallpapers – Single Screen – Surface, 21:9 and dual-screen – Super ultra-wide – Mobile wallpapers

New super ultra-wide walpapers

New ones for the super ultra-wide selection. Again from a few different spots, this time it’s London, Cesky Krumlov, Bratislava, and the Austrian Alps. If you would like a wallpaper version of any of my photos, feel free to leave a comment. Will do so in the next update :)

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Wallpapers update

October 31, 2021 No Comments

Wallpapers update

The wallpapers section is still the most visited part of the blog, so let’s do another update there. I tend to take quite a lot of panoramas, so there still are many to choose from and share with you.

Don’t forget to check out other available wallpapers:

4K wallpapers – Single Screen – Surface, 21:9 and dual-screen – Super ultra-wide – Mobile wallpapers

New super ultra-wide walpapers

And as the super ultra-wide wallpapers are the most popular, here are 5 new ones for that category. A bit from all over the place today. Bratislava, Amsterdam, Prague, Nur-sultan and Barca de Alba to be exact. If you would like a wallpaper version of any of my photos, feel free to leave a comment. Will do so in the next update :)

AI-generated wallpapers

February 23, 2021 No Comments

AI generated wallpapers

I tried out to create AI-generated images, and after some tries, it became really addictive. Really fun for someone who can’t really paint to create something that one could only imagine before. And since I like them quite a lot, I thought I share some with you, in nice big resolutions, fit for use as wallpapers.

Don’t forget to check out other available wallpapers:

4K wallpapers – Single Screen – Surface, 21:9 and dual-screen – Super ultra-wide – Mobile – AI-generated

How were they created?

For all these AI-generated images, I used Midjourney v4, with different prompts. For instance one like:

solitary figure in steampunk diving suite, looking up an impossibly large Lovecraftian monster with tentacles, in a giant underwater cave, glowing walls, eldritch horror, hyper-realistic

Then I used Topaz Gigapixel to get a higher resolution and to clean them up. After that, I finished them up in Photoshop with a few final tweaks.

Mobile wallpapers

I created quite a few that are very suitable for mobile phone wallpapers, all 1:2 aspect ratio, 2000x4000px. Should be good enough for almost all phones available. They especially look good on OLED screens. Since there are quite a lot of them, I decided not to post them directly here, but in a separate gallery on my portfolio page. You can find them here.

21:9 AI-generated wallpapers

These are also mostly Lovecraft and steampunk inspired, as I have been reading many such books lately :). All in 3440×1440 resolution, suitable for ultrawide 34-inch monitors.

4K AI-generated wallpapers

And these are all in 3840×2160, exactly for a 4K monitor.