It’s great how all the leafs get a gold color when the sun shine through them. The whole trees look like they were glowing. I hope the colors are alright on this one, as my Ipad show them really red. It actually shows all my photos, which have a lot of yellow and orange in it, as really red. I’m not sure where the problem is.
Maybe some of you have already notice, but from now, when you click on a photo, you are no longer redirected to smugmug. Now you directly get a lightbox with a bigger version of the photo, and you can use the arrow keys or click on the big photo to go through all the photos on the page. I think that this is much simpler and more convenient way to the old one. I hope you will like it.
I went with a very old photo today, over two years. It’s from the Open-Air Museum of folk architecture in Bardejovske Kupele in eastern Slovakia. There are many of them in Slovakia and also a huge number of wooden churches scattered around the country. I think it would make for a great photo series.
The original photo was horrible, and I tried to pull as much as possible from it. Check out the comparison, to see what I mean.
It’s stunning how much you can get into one shot by using a wide angle lens. I set up my tripod low and close to the seas, so I could have the seats and also the ceiling in a single shot. And it worked. I used the Canon 16-35mm lens here, at 16mm. It created quite a lot of distortion, when you are so close to your subject, but I don’t mind.
For quite a long time I wanted to add my own HDR tutorial to this site. It’s not completely ready yet, but the first part is. It’s about how to take brackets for HDR photos. I will add more part as I finish them.
I hope this will be useful for some of you, and you find something that helps you.
Please let me know if you find any problems or errors in the tutorial, or if you simply don’t understand something. Any questions are welcome.
You can find the HDR tutorial here or as all other parts of this page, there is a link in the menu on the right.
I wasn’t even planing to take any photo during the sunset. The sky was grey, no clouds, nothing really interesting. So I went out to take some blue hour shots. But minutes before sunset the clouds came and with them all the beautiful colors. It was a very stunning view.
I went for 7 brackets here, as the castle is white, and very bright compared to the hill under it. I even had to go up to 9 for some shots, as the difference was really high.
As all photographers, I prefer to take my photos around sunset. But sometime, especially during winter months, the sunsets are quite boring. With a clear sky, they look mostly grey. So what I do, is I wait for the blue hour. Even with a clear sky, the blue is really stunning.
This is one of my older photos, still taken with the Canon 450D. You really can see the difference, when you look closely. The 5D mark II with the Canon lens makes much more sharper images.
