Photoengine Summer sale

If you thought about picking up Oloneo Photoengine, now is a good time. Oloneo is currently having a summer sale, and you can get Photoengine for 50 euro off until the end of this months. Just head over to the Oloneo page and use code SUMMER2015PE

Green light on the bridge

If you are at the exact time at the Charles bridge in Prague, when they turn on the lights, for a few seconds, you can get a photo with the bridge being green. It’s a results of the lights warming up and most people miss it :) You can actually see it by quite a lot of landmark lights, for instance the Chain bridge in Budapest has the same. You just have to have the right timing.

This is a HDR from 3 exposures created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones Adapter ver. IV, Lens: Canon 24-70mm F2.8, Focal length: 59mm, Aperture: 9, Middle exposure time: 10.0s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 50.08441, 14.41323

Don’t update Photoshop

I mentioned this yesterday, but will once more. If you are using Photoshop, you probably already noticed that there is a 2015 version. There is even an update for that already. Don’t update to it. It’s horrible. Compared to the last years version, it very slow, buggy, the images don’t redraw properly, it’s just a huge pain to use. If I could, I would have already downgraded. I love working in Photoshop. I’ve been using it for over 15 years now, and this one, must be my worst experience I ever had with it.

Btw. one more not. Strangely (or maybe stupidly?) each Photoshop update turns off the automatic recovery saving of files you are working on. Why they do that I don’t understand, as I think this should be on by default, as it is very important, but they do. So don’t forget to turn it back on if you update.

Blue reflection

I did very little editing on this photo. The reason is of course the horrible Photoshop. But I hope you will still enjoy it.

This are four exposures combined in Oloneo Photoengine, blended with the original exposures in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 4, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones Adapter ver. IV, Lens: Canon 24-70mm F2.8, Focal length: 35mm, Aperture: 7.1, Middle exposure time: 13.0s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 50.08441, 14.41323

And to finish this week, another panorama, from another bad weather evening :) This time it’s again the Charles bridge, but from the other side.

This is a 2 tile panorama, each tile from 5 exposures.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 2*5, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones Adapter ver. IV, Lens: Canon 24-70mm F2.8, Focal length: 24mm, Aperture: 9, Middle exposure time: 5.0s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 50.08624, 14.41349

How about another panorama from Prague, this time the Charles bridge. As I mentioned yesterday, I didn’t had that much luck with weather, but with so many low clouds, they can give quite a lot of reflected light, making so everything look more yellow, which can also be quite an interesting look :)

This is a two tile panorama, each tile from 5 exposures. All combined in PTgui, then Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop. For the exact process, feel free to check out my HDR panoramas guide here.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 2*5, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones Adapter ver. IV, Lens: Canon 24-70mm F2.8, Focal length: 24mm, Aperture: 9, Middle exposure time: 8.0s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 50.08647, 14.40938

So I got back from Prague yesterday, and while my trip was not really that lucky for nice weather, I at least got few night shots (and mostly panoramas :)). So let’s start with one, of the Prague castle, taken right before a heavy storm started, and we had to run for shelter :)

This is a 2 tile panorama, each one from 3 exposures. Most of the shot is from a single exposure, with the bright building of the castle blended in from a HDR created in Oloneo Photoengine.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 2*3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones Adapter ver. IV, Lens: Canon 24-70mm F2.8, Focal length: 48mm, Aperture: 7.1, Middle exposure time: 13.0s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 50.08441, 14.41323