I took this photo two times. One at F2.8 and one at F9. I just wanted to see the difference. And in the end I went with the one at F2.8. It blurred the background a little, which made the bikes stood out a little more. Sometimes really having the whole image sharp makes it just worse.
Just one more fireworks shot for now :) I can’t wait until I have again a change to take more fireworks shots. It’s not so hard to get nice ones, just the problem is that most will have a very similar composition, as you can’t really move that much during the few minutes the fireworks happen.
When I finished this photo, I noticed some strange “artifacts” on the bottom, on the water. At first I thought I did something wrong in the processing, and then I found that it’s the reflection of the clouds :) It just looks a little strange.
I took this photo around two weeks ago, when I went out shooting with Jim Nix who is also a HDR photographer and also has his own HDR photography blog at http://www.nomadicpursuits.com/ . If you check out his blog, he posted a photo from the same evening just yesterday. We really had luck for great clouds, and for usable weather. Just around two hours before this photo was taken, there was a heavy rain in Bratislava.
This is my very first fish-eye HDR. I tried to remove the distortion as good as I knew, and I think for a first photo is quite good. But I still see a lot of errors in it. But it will get better :) I also took a panorama of this view, so I hope I add it soon to this blog.
Somehow I have more photos of old cars, than of new cars :) Probably that’s because there are not so many exotic cars in Bratislava, and taking photos of the regular ones is a little boring. But there are a lot of nice old cars in the Transport Museum here and quite a lot you can see a veteran rally or a gathering.
