The weather in Bratislava got much better this week, so for today I chosen to go up to the Slavin Memorial. It’s one of the highest points in the city, but a lot of the view is obstructed by trees. So it was a great opportunity to use my 70-200mm lens, as I dont use it that much :) So this is fully zoomed in to 200mm. Manually blended from 5 photos and processed in Photoshop.

No new photo for today, but instead a new tutorial video :) This is a companion video for my HDR tutorial, specifically the first part How to take photos for HDR. So in this 13 minutes video I’m going through different ways of taking multiple shots, bracketing, manual bracketing, using a promote and using Magic lantern.

Hope you find it helpful :)

The freezing reflection

And not just the reflection, also I was freezing while I was taking this. And I was standing on the ice, which made some very disturbing sounds :)

Manual blend from three shots. Photo taken at the Kuchajda lake in Bratislava.

HDR one magazine – January Issue

A new issue of the HDR one magazine came out a few days ago, and this time there are also two articles written by me :) So for all of you who are interested in photography, you can get the newest (and also all other) issues here for free: http://www.hdrone.com/2013/02/january-2013-issue-of-hdr-one-is-now-available/

Light Bridge

Finally a decent shot from this year. I was starting to feel depressed, as I haven’t taken any new landscape photos fro over a month. But when the sky cleared a little yesterday, I ran out to take at least few shots. And my steps went to the Danube, as I wanted to try some long exposure shots with the Hoya ND400 filter which I bought recently. I got some nice shots with the filter, but nothing share worthy, so maybe next time. For this photo I had no need for the filter, as it was taken after sunset and the exposure was long enough even without the filter.

In this photo the Old bridge and the Apollo bridge in Bratislava. Manual blend from 5 photos, exported from Lightroom and then edited in Photoshop.

Over 200 versions

Today the voting for my editing contest started and this is how it looks when over 200 people edit the same photo :) You can view all of them and by liking, you can vote for your favorites here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.460089094046068.109871.139494419438872&type=1

The voting will be held until Saturday midnight, and the two winners (one from voting and one from the jury selection) will be announced on Sunday.