And I’m back home after the few days in Austria. I had only partial luck with weather this time, with my trip to Salzburg being completely worthless due to heavy rain the whole time I was there. But I still managed to visit other places, and get few nice shots.

So for today, a shot from Hallstatt, from one of the most popular spots there. And since it gives such a nice view, it’s not even a surprise. This is a HDR from three exposures.

I’m including a behind the camera shot today. Randomly, it was taken right after I took this shot :)

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones Adapter ver. IV, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 35mm, Aperture: 13, Middle exposure time: 5s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 47.564581, 13.649901

The last guide I will mention this time, is one of the most favorites on the blog. It on how to remove lens flares from your photos. They really can easily ruin a great shot. Check out the guide here: How to remove lens flares.

One of the most important thing in photography is of course composition, so the last guide I will highlight here is my Composition rules guide. Composition is one of the areas, that even getting better, will effect you photos right away.

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There are already quite a few articles with software tips on the blog, so let me highlight them here for you. There are tips for Photoshop, Lightroom, Ptgui, Color efex pro and of course Oloneo Photoengine. Of course there are also tutorials available, but this are just the tips & tricks :)

Photoshop tips

Lightroom tips part 1 / part 2

Photoengine tips

PTgui tips

Color Efex Pro tips

I quite quickly planed another shot trip for this week, this time to Hallstatt and Salzburg in Austria, and due to other work, I again ended up with no photos/posts ready for the blog. But instead of reposting some older photos, I will highlight some of the guides available on this blog, during the next few days.

So for today, a reminder that you can find two guides on how to combine HDR panormas here. There are two, as one shows how it’s done in Autopano Giga and the second one in PTGui. So here they are:

creating HDR panoramas in Autopano Giga

creating HDR panoramas in PTGUI