Fire to the rain

I love shooting fireworks. It’s a little hit and miss all the time, as there are not so many opportunities, when to take photos of them. These time they were directly in the middle of the city, over Danube. So I found my self a spot, so I have the castle and them in one photo. And I think it worked out nicely.

Of course this is a HDR from a single RAW file. Also I used Oloneo HDR instead of Photomatix, as it gives me better results with photos, where there is a lot of black space.

Looking up

A big one today (60 Mpix :) ). Those of you who follow me on facebook know that I recently bought a Panoramic head, the Nodal Ninja 4. I also posted few shot of how it looks and how I used it for this photo there. And this is the first result I’m publishing.  This is a 180 degree vertorama, created from 7 photos. At first it should have been a HDR vertorama (I took multiple brackets), but as it was quite windy there, the ghosting was just too much. So instead I created this from single exposures, and I used some of the steps I do in HDR post processing on it.

As Smugmug is not so good for vertical photos (it creates very small versions of them)  I uploaded the big version directly to the blog. When you click on it, you will see a smaller one, which fits a screen :)

1967 Ford Mustang GTA

What a beauty this is. And I took this only handheld :). I had to be very quick, so I have no one in the shot. I was in the city yesterday and there was a veteran rally. And as I was walking around I found this beauty, with no one standing next to it. I managed to take two shot when other people noticed it and started moving around it. But I think the ones I got are really nice :)

Strong clouds over Kuchajda

Another cloudy shot. Just can’t keep away from editing them. I really don’t like clear skies.

Traveling without moving

One of my first experiments of photographing stars. I wanted to try it before, but the 450D gave me really noisy images for my satisfaction. But with the 5D it’s now much better.

I took this one at 2 a.m. at night, as I was waiting for the moon to set behind the mountains. You still can see a lot of light pollution in the photo, as there is a city behind the mountains. I also went with 8 minutes for this photo. I wanted to try 30 minutes, but I was too tired to wait there for 30 minutes without falling a sleep. And as I was standing above a cliff, I had to be careful so I don’t fall down. And of course this is not a HDR :)