I don’t do that much astrophotography, as most of my photos are from cities, and you can’t get any stars there. But as I was in a less populated area during Christmas, I tried to take few shots also of the starts. And the day I took this, we got to the cabin around midnight. Most of the day, the sky was covered by clouds, but just a short time before it cleared. And as it was not that cold, I had to take few shots. I’m just sad, that at that time I did’t know that there was a second cabin a little behind this one, which would give me a much better composition. I just found that out the next morning, when we were leaving the area :)

This is a blend from two exposures in Photoshop.

Best HDR photography blog

It was quite a surprise when I checked the selection for the 2013 at Photoblogawards. I have been selected for the 2nd year in a row, this time as the best in HDR photography. I have to say big thanks for all your support through last year, visits, shares, comments and everything else. Let’s now hope for an even better 2014 :)

More fireworks

I thought about what to post today, and since I slept most of today (I was just too tired from the last few days), I chosen to stick with another fireworks shot :) You can see in this photo, what I mentioned yesterday, with the smoke covering the castle. Few moments after this, you could not see it anymore :)

This is a single exposure edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Happy new year 2014

First of all happy new year everyone, hope you having a great time. I, same as every year, went out to get some photos of the midnight fireworks. I got quite a good spot this year, but the weather was a little bad. The fog with the smoke from the fireworks actually covered the castle completely, that in the middle of the fireworks I moved to a different spot, as my planed composition with the castle was not possible at all. You just could not see it. But this is one from the start, so it’s still there.

This is a single exposure edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

I’m ending the year the same way as I started it, with a photo of fireworks. Of course these are the ones form last year, as I have no new ones yet. Maybe tomorrow, if the weather gets better (it’s raining right now ). Hope you all have a great day today, and to a better 2014 :)

This is a single photo edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

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Light balls at the Nativity scene

I’m not really that happy with my recent photos. Winter photos with no snow just do not look right. But as I have nothing else new to edit, I have to edit those. So here is another one from the Christmas decorations in Poprad. This is a part of a Nativity scene in a park there. It’s not the whole decorations, as you can see, it was quite big.

It was raining at the time I took this, so everything looked quite yellowish, and I decided to leave it that way in the final edit. I think it’s more authentic this way. This is a HDR created from 5 exposures in Oloneo Photoengine and finieshed in Photoshop.