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.

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

The red boat in front of the water mill

Another one of my older shots, from my “backup” list (photos which I post, when I have no time to edit new ones :)). But If nothing went wrong, I should have spend the whole weekend taking new photos, so there should be something new tomorrow :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

Skeleton

This was also taken in the Dinopark in the Bratislava Zoo. I was trying out if I can create usable handled HDR’s with the Canon 7d. And as you can see, they can be quite alright (and this was taken at around 150mm)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 18-200mm lens, handheld