I really don’t like where the Aupark tower (the skyscraper in the back) stands. It really is in the way when you want to take a shot of the New bridge from the Bratislava Castle.
HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-200mm lens, from a tripod.
Finally I have a normal address for my online portfolio. It’s now www.hdrshooter.net . I really wanted a .com domain, but since somebody has it parked I can’t have it. I really hate when people do this. If you don’t have a page, don’t register a domain.
Of course the old address hdrshooter.smugmug.com still works.
Just a reminder :). I post all links to my photos and other interesting stuff (but mostly other photos) also on my twitter account http://twitter.com/hdrshooter
I try to keep my tweets count to a normal (smaller) number, so I don’t spam.
So anyone can follow me, and I try to follow back :)
The Botanical Garden of the Comenius University in Bratislava is such a nice place for a walk. It is quite close to the city center, but you wouldn’t now it being there :)
I think editing trees in HDR is quite hard. HDR brings out so many details and it whole becomes a one big mess. I had the same problem with this one, so I mixed it with the original shot (0 EV) to bring back the shadows in the trees and separate them from each other. I think I was quite successful :)
HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, handheld. Photo taken in late summer of 2010.
I add a lot of my photos also to HDR Spotting (http://www.hdrspotting.com/). I had most of my photos featured, but never selected for an editors’s pick. It’s a really great place to find other HDR photographers and to see some amazing HDR works.
As it still is in a beta state, you need an invite to join. I still have few of them unused so if you are a HDR photographer and want one, just leave me a note :)
Some months ago, there was a very heavy fog in Bratislava, so I went out to take few pictures. I found this car parked just few streets from my flat. I really wanted a strong contrast look for this one. I punched the details quite a bit, I left the noise as it was and then run it through Photo Tools to add more details and adjust the colors.
It’s also a little more “artistic” look, than my other photos, but I really like to experiment, trying new techniques and plugins :)
HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, handheld.
I just hit my first 10 000 views on my smugmug portfolio (hdrshooter.smugmug.com). Smugmug really count visit much differently than flickr. The first 10 000 on flickr took ages :)
Thank you all for visiting :)
Interior shots are still a little harder for me to post-process. I can’t really get to the point where I want them to be. This one I edited maybe 10 times, each time I updated how I process my photos. But now I think is quite passable :) (but still can get better :) )
HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens. Photo taken at the abandoned military base at Devinska Kobyla above Bratislava
For the last couple of days I have been playing around with Trey Racliffs Iphone app 100 cameras in 1. Since I only have an Ipod I’m just editing my older shots, to see what result I can get. So here are few of them:
I quite like that you can stack the filters on each other, to get really different results. The filters “the sky wept in crimson waves” and “when I felt sad, and you were not there” quickly became my favorites :) (and yes, that are really the names of the filters :) )
Its a really nice app and you can get great and very interesting results from it. To get more info about this app, go here: http://www.stuckincustoms.com/best-iphone-camera/
I’m going to post more later on :)
Still have a few unpublished photos from last years fireworks at Kuchajda lake in Bratislava. Let’s hope this year I have same luck for great shots :).
As probably all fireworks shots, this one is also only from a single RAW file. Before the fireworks started, I took few test shots, to get the time needed, so the surrounding are not absolutely dark in comparison to the fireworks. Then I took the shot on bulb mode with a remote, trying to stick to a similar time.
HDR from one shot, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.
