Welcome to my new blog

Hope you like it here. After two years I’m leaving wordpress.com in favor of a self hosted wordpress site. This gives me the oportunity to add more stuff to the page, and have it more “my way”.

As you can see, I selected a new theme for this blog. I think its more cleaner than the old one and  showcases the photos much more. It’s not wider than the old one, but it has bigger photos.  If you look over the page, you will see, that there is less info by the photos, but don’t worry. If you view a full post you will see  the detailed information on used gear and my camera settings. Each post now also includes a map, with the location, where the photo was taken.

And don’t forget my favorite new feature, the before/after comparison. Each post in this category includes a comparison between the normal photo (0EV exposure) and my final HDR. Just select the big before/after button on the right, to see which posts include this comparison.

I’m still working on the new site, so there will be more changes as I add them. If you find anything that is not working, please let me know.

Thank you for all your visits, comments and support, I hope you all like this new blog :) 

The old blog (hdrshooter.wordpress.com) will be updated for the next few days, and after that I will turn on a redirect, so it points to the this one.

Testing the Promote

I have the Promote remote for a week now and I have been testing it quite a lot. And i decided to try it on one of my favorite views in Bratislava, the view of the New Bridge. I did 7 shots here. I could use even more, as still there are few overexposed areas. But still, I’m very impressed with the amount of detail you can get when using more than 3 shots.

School in the Nature

We had a very lovely weather yesterday. I spend most of it on the Biofarm in Stupava. Eating great traditional Slovak food and taking photos. One of the buildings in the areal was this “School in the Nature” which is probably used only in the Summer.

This is the first HDR I published, which I took with the help of the Promote Control remote. After few problems I got the hang of it and it now works flawlessly. For this one I did 7 exposure, from -3 to +3. I will test it more, and then write a little review of it for this blog.

Warm days

I don’t usually use HDR on photos with bokeh, but I try it from time to time :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-50mm lens from a tripod

Red

These old cars are so beautiful, and great for HDR :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

Standing on Ice

Another shot, taken while standing on a frozen lake. I really don’t like standing on ice, but I couldn’t resist, as it gave me the possibility to take a photo from a place, I usually cannot get to. Again I used HDR just a little here, to correct the overexposed areas of the restaurant and add more detail into the building and ice. Most of the photo is not HDR.

In this shot a restaurat on the Kuchajda lake in Bratislava.

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 5D mark II with Canon 16-35mm F2.8 lens, from a tripod