Small details

With a camera, which has custom modes, I finally can quickly switch between HDR and non-HDR photos, without having to play with camera settings. What I really like is shots of small details in the scene, with a very shallow DOF. For now I have only a F2.8 lens, but already that makes a very nice blurry background. So here is one of those photos, a detail of love locks on the bridge in my daily photo :)

The big 10

or one of the old bridges in Toledo (I couldn’t find how it’s called). I of course couldn’t resist not to go under the bridge to take few shots. The water was really calm that day, giving me this perfect reflection :)

600 fans

My facebook fan page http://www.facebook.com/hdrshooter just got to 600 fans. Thank you very much everyone :)

Morning in Toledo

You can see every megapixel of the new camera here. The detail is stunning. The bigger you see this photo, the better it looks :)

Promote Control remote

I just ordered the Promote Control remote. Exactly because of photos, like the one today. Somehow the more I shoot, the more I have situations where 3 brackets is not enough. I usually go with three at -2,0,+2 and three at -1,+1 and +3, but this helps only sometimes, and you still cant go over 30 seconds. And here is where the Promote comes into play, giving you the ability to take much more brackets (up to 45). I was thinking about it a long time ago, but I wanted to wait for a new camera first. And now’s the time. Let’s see if the increased number of brackets will be visible on my photos :)

Night in Madrid

I don’t really like when the sky is absolutely black in a photo, but I had no other option here. As I only took three shots, the brightest one was not bright enough. My mistake. It’s always better to take more bracket and don’t need them, than taking less and missing them.

Classic shot in the Segovia Cathedral

This really is a classic composition for a place like this :). I just could resist to also have a photo like this. I took this shot in the cloister of the Segovia Cathedral in Segovia. I wanted to try few different composition, but few seconds after I took this shot, I was asked to stop using my tripod, and the security guard started walking around, interfering with my shots. Probably he thought I will destroy the stone floor tiles with the rubber feet of my tripod :) But either way, I’m happy with this shot.

Iglesia de Los Jesuitas

White objects (walls, cars, anything else) are not the best subject for HDR. You have to be very careful, not to make the white turn into grey in your final result. This very beautiful church in Toledo, the Iglesia de Los Jesuitas is one of the very bright churches, with all the walls very white. This is why I used the HDR postprocess only on small parts of the photo, everything that was not white. Together with a lot of brightening, I think it worked really well.

Also this was only the second church I visited in Spain (first one being the Almudena Cathedral) where I was allowed to use a tripod. Don’t really understand why they allow you to take photos, but they are against the use of tripods :)