This one really didn’t wanted to be combined. It always was a little off. I even tried to combine it in Photoshop (which I almost never do), but it just refused to work nicely. In the end I had to remove almost half from one of the shots, so the rest blends nicely. You can see a screenshot from PTgui on the side. Repeating texture is really hard for panorama software :)

I took this photo in the spring in the Open air museum in Bardejovske Kupele in Eastern Slovakia. It’s a two shot vertorama, each shot from 5 esposures. Vertorama created in PTgui and HDR blended in Oloneo Photoengine. Finished in Photoshop.

I spend the Eastern at my parents home, and I though I get some new photos in the area while I’m there. Of course since the Spring is here, it rained most of the time. But we stopped at Bardejovske Kupele (Barjdejov spa town) to get some of the great mineral water that is available there (if any of you are ever in the area, go there, taste it, it’s free, you will love it, and its very healthy :)), and we also stopped by the open air museum there. The weather was ok for a while, so I’m quite happy with the few photo I took.

This one is of one of the two Churses there. This time I went with a vertorama from two photos, each one created from 5 exposures, combined in PTGUI and then Oloneo Photoengine. Check out the guides section for how to create HDR panoramas.

Nice wooden church

Another place I plan to revisit this summer, the Open air museum in Bardejovske Kupele. I was there last time in summer 2010, so quite soon after I started with photography. And going through the photo, I’m wandering, what was I thinking. So many nice subjects and so many horrible compositions :)

New Lightbox

Maybe some of you have already notice, but from now, when you click on a photo, you are no longer redirected to smugmug. Now you directly get a lightbox with a bigger version of the photo, and you can use the arrow keys or click on the big photo to go through all the photos on the page. I think that this is much simpler and more convenient way to the old one. I hope you will like it.

Open-Air Museum of folk architecture

I went with a very old photo today, over two years. It’s from the Open-Air Museum of folk architecture in Bardejovske Kupele in eastern Slovakia. There are many of them in Slovakia and also a huge number of wooden churches scattered around the country. I think it would make for a great photo series.

The original photo was horrible, and I tried to pull as much as possible from it. Check out the comparison, to see what I mean.

Back in time

It very interesting to visit these open air museums in Slovakia. Sometime you have luck, and there is nobody there, so for a moment you can feel like you have been transported back in time :)

This photo is from the one in Bardejovske Kuple in eastern Slovakia.

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.