I’m ending the year the same way as I started it, with a photo of fireworks. Of course these are the ones form last year, as I have no new ones yet. Maybe tomorrow, if the weather gets better (it’s raining right now ). Hope you all have a great day today, and to a better 2014 :)

This is a single photo edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Capturing Fireworks

Probably a lot of you plan to capture fireworks tomorrow, and if you have doubts on how to do it, my eBook Capturing Fireworks could help. And its free for all newsletter subscribers, so feel free to head over to the newsletter page for more information and to join it.

Light balls at the Nativity scene

I’m not really that happy with my recent photos. Winter photos with no snow just do not look right. But as I have nothing else new to edit, I have to edit those. So here is another one from the Christmas decorations in Poprad. This is a part of a Nativity scene in a park there. It’s not the whole decorations, as you can see, it was quite big.

It was raining at the time I took this, so everything looked quite yellowish, and I decided to leave it that way in the final edit. I think it’s more authentic this way. This is a HDR created from 5 exposures in Oloneo Photoengine and finieshed in Photoshop.

Capture clip Pro v2 by Peak Design review

Another review which I added recently to the blog, is of the Capture Clip Pro v2 by Peak Design. It’s quite an intersting solution if you want to carry your camera on a backpack strap, or on a belt. You can find check out the full review for further details.

Koliba u dobreho pastiera

This was the place where we stopped by for a lunch on the way to Eastern Slovakia last week. There are quite a lot of cottages like this, that are restaurants along the road. They mimic the very traditional look of the wooden huts and they really fit nicely into the mountain area. At first I haven’t planed to take any photos, but as the sky cleared for a moment and the sun came out, I just could not resist. As you can also see, there was a little snow, but not really enough for a nice winter photo. Btw. the lunch was great :)

This is a HDR from 6 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine and then finished in Photoshop.

This will be a little shorter post, as I only arrived home about a hour ago and I’m dead tired. In the last week I visited many places and had some opportunities to take few photos. But as it is currently much hotter here than it should be, there is almost no snow at all. So to at least have a little bit of the atmosphere, here is one huge Christmas ball.

I took this one while stooping for a while in the city Poprad. There were many nice decorations there, but I struggled a little to get a nice shot, as it was raining and the city was full of people. But somehow I managed to get this one without them. This huge Christmas ball also seemed to be a quite popular place to pose and take photos, so it was someone in it most of the time.

This is a HDR created in Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop.

Smugmug – review

I’ve been using Smugmug as my photo host and portfolio site for a few years now, so I thought I put together a short review of it. Head over to the Smugmug – review page for more.

At the Neusiedlersee

I should be back in Bratislava today, and hopefully I also got few new shots during the last days (I have no idea if I got something, as I’m writing this a week before :)). So lets be surprised together tomorrow. Until then, here is another photo from the best sunset I seen in 2013.

This is a manual blend from 5 exposures, taken at the Neusiedlersee in Austria.