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Great week on Flickr

I had a really great week with my photos on flickr. A lot of views, most of the photos in Explore and even two photos on Explore Front page. I had these in explore

And the last two were also on the Explore Front page
 

Thank you very much to everyone who visited, commented and favorited my photos :)

Salsa Gala

I usually post when my photos are used somewhere, and this is one of those times :). DJ Steeve Belgium http://djsteeve.be/ is having a Salsa-Kizomba Gala on a ship in Bratislava and he used my photos for the promotional banners :) I have already seen photos, but I can’t wait to see them printed this Saturday, when I visit this event.

Event Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144186068993339

Few moments after sunrise

It’s really worth it to get up early. This photo was taken just few minutes after sunrise and I can really say, I’m happy with it :) The one really good thing, about this place is, that you can get there with a car. So it only took few minutes to get there :)

In this shot the Stary Haj area, near Krupina in central Slovakia

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

Beautiful Sunrise  It's really worth it to get up early. This photo was taken just few minutes after sunrise and I can really say, I'm happy with it :) The one really good thing, about this place is, that you can get there with a car. So it only took few minutes to get there :)  In this shot the Stary Haj area, near Krupina in central Slovakia  HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

Entry gate

I had another sunrise shot for today, but then decided to go with something a little different. This is the entrance to the Bzovík Fortified Monastery in the village Bzovík in central Slovakia. It’s mostly in ruins, but it still is a great subject for HDR (and a little bit dangerous as the sign after the entrance warns :)).

I used a little different HDR processing on this one. I created a tonemapped image and a double tonemapped one (you hit tonemaping once more, when you are done in photomatix). Then I merged this two around 50% from each and I used the center part from the once tonemapped image.

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens from a tripod.

Entry gate  I had another sunrise shot for today, but then decided to go with something a little different. This is the entrance to the Bzovík Fortified Monastery in the village Bzovík in central Slovakia. It's mostly in ruins, but it still is a great subject for HDR (and a little bit dangerous as the sign after the entrance warns :)).   I used a little different HDR processing on this one. I created a tonemapped image and a double tonemapped one (you hit tonemaping once more, when you are done in photomatix). Then I merged this two around 50% from each and I used the center part from the once tonemapped image.  HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens from a tripod.

Almost full moon

My plan for last weekend was also to take photos of the stars, as the 7D has quite nice performance on higher ISO levels. But I didn’t account for the very bright almost full moon. It was so bright, that the stars were almost not visible. So I took photos of the moon instead :)

I actually felt quite stupid when I took this. The reason was, that the setup I used, the 7D with a Celestron telescope, could only capture something above half of the moon and you couldn’t zoom out. And it took me quite a while to remember, that I can create a panorama from multiple shots, to capture the whole moon :)

This is not a HDR shot, I took multiple exposures, but the didn’t align properly and the HDR from a single RAW didn’t look right to me. So I just created a panorama from two shots, removed the distortion and did few steps I usually do in HDR post-processing.

Panorama from two shots, taken with Canon 7D and Celestron CPC 1100 GPS telescope.

Almost full moon  My plan for last weekend was also to take photos of the stars, as the 7D has quite nice performance on higher ISO levels. But I didn't account for the very bright almost full moon. It was so bright, that the stars were almost not visible. So I took photos of the moon instead :)  I actually felt quite stupid when I took this. The reason was, that the setup I used, the 7D with a Celestron telescope, could only capture something above half of the moon and you couldn't zoom out. And it took me quite a while to remember, that I can create a panorama from multiple shots, to capture the whole moon :)   This is not a HDR shot, I took multiple exposures, but the didn't align properly and the HDR from a single RAW didn't look right to me. So I just created a panorama from two shots, removed the distortion and did few steps I usually do in HDR post-processing.  Panorama from two shots, taken with Canon 7D and Celestron CPC 1100 GPS telescope.

New day begins

So this is already one from this weekend. I somehow managed to get up for the sunrise again. The last time there were no clouds, but this time I had this beautiful color show, so I was very pleased. For this one I took 9 shots, from -4 to +4. I did it manually, quickly changing the settings between each shot. I also tried to create a panorama of this sunrise, so hopefully I will upload it sometime later :)

In this shot the Stary Haj area near Krupina in central Slovakia.

HDR from 9 shots, taken with Canon 7D, with Sigma 10-20mm lens, manually focused, manual bracketing.

Waking up  So this is already one from this weekend. I somehow managed to get up for the sunrise again. The last time there were no clouds, but this time I had this beautiful color show, so I was very pleased. For this one I took 9 shots, from -4 to +4. I did it manually, quickly changing the settings between each shot. I also tried to create a panorama of this sunrise, so hopefully I will upload it sometime later :)  In this shot the Stary Haj area near Krupina in central Slovakia.  HDR from 9 shots, taken with Canon 7D, with Sigma 10-20mm lens, manually focused, manual bracketing.

Wheels

I took so many photos this weekend. I was hoping to have at least one ready for today, but I arrived home quite late and quite tired. So I will have one tomorrow and for now another older shot :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-50mm lens, from a tripod

Wheels  I took so many photos this weekend. I was hoping to have at least one ready for today, but I arrived home quite late and quite tired. So I will have one tomorrow and for now another older shot :)  HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-50mm lens, from  a tripod

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