Different angle

I think I haven’t uploaded a photo of the Bratislava castle from this angle yet :). I took this from the Slavin memorial during quite a windy day. There was a nice sky around sunset, so I zoomed in quite a lot and did my best to hold the tripod steady :) The perspective is a little flatter on this one. It’s a little strange for me, as I usually shoot with a wide-angle lens. But it’s always nice to try something else :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-200mm lens, from a tripod.

Great photographers at Google+

I’ve been playing around with Google+ the last few days and there are many of my favorite photographers already there. I definitively suggest adding them to your circles :). Here they are:

• https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019 – Trey Ratcliff (StuckInCustoms)
• https://plus.google.com/108629717769018996477 – Girolamo Cracchiolo (Omalorig)
• https://plus.google.com/115360471097759949621 – Klaus Herrmann (Farbspiel)
• https://plus.google.com/108705174211639807508 – Brian Matiash
• https://plus.google.com/102871123574468799566 – Patrick Smith
• https://plus.google.com/118418436905562612953 – Lisa Bettany
• https://plus.google.com/107543460658107759808 – Terje Sørgjerd (TSOPhotography)

Of course there are many many more, by these are currently my favorites :)

and if you would like to add me :) https://plus.google.com/112590242873326824500

Inside St. Egidius Church

So of course when I took photos of the St. Egidius Church in Bardejov, I had to take few photos from the inside. Again I had a strange timing, as when I arrived it was half an hour before a wedding started there. But as it was around lunch on Saturday, there were only few tourists and for the most of the 30 minutes I could take photos without anyone being in the way.

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

Two suns

One of the great things, you can do with HDR, is to take photos of the sun and still have nice exposure in the whole shot. This is one of those occasions. Check out the original (0EV) shot, to see the difference.

Again I have only a small idea where this was taken. I took it last week while traveling, and we just stopped by a random sunflower field along the way. I took only few shots, as there were so many bees in the field, I didn’t want to push my luck :)

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

St. Egidius Church

Two days ago I uploaded a photo taken from the tower of the St. Egidius Church in Bardejov. This time I’m uploading a photo of the church :). I took this shot last weekend while visiting relatives there.

This was taken around 1 hour after the sunset, so still in the blue hour. The church was already lit up, but all the clouds have vanished. So I tried to use the best sky color from the original shots, to make it at least a little bit interesting :)

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

Sky after the storm

The weather here last week was was a combination of really warm weather during the day and strong storms in the evenings. So the sunsets were just beautiful.

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