Slovak parliament after Sundown

Went to the Bratislava Castle yesterday to take a few photos, and as the Slovak parliament building is right next to it I took a few photos of it too. Looks like I wasn’t the only one with the idea, as everyone else who was there had a camera :) I took more shots for this one, as the lights were too bright in the -2 shot, so I took a second series from -3. I even created a -4 shot by underexposing it in lightroom, but it still wasn’t really enough.

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

Photo editing

Another little view into my photo editing process. The following image shows the original three shots (-2,0,+2), with the photomatix result (bottom left) and the final image edited in photoshop (bottom right). As is visible, photomatix is used to blend the images, but it’s far from the finished photo.

Plane at the Military museum

One from Eastern Slovakia today. This shot was taken at the Military museum in Svidnik.

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

200 000 views

Yesterday my account on Flickr passed 200 000 views. The second one hundred took about the half time, my first one hundred took, so lets see how long the third one takes  :)

Thank you very much everyone who visited :). Now onto the next 100 000 and more and more photos :)

Triceratops

This one really gave me a lot of work. I took the 3 shot handheld and the alignment was nor really that perfect. So I masked a lot of parts from the original images and also removed few people from the shot. Also I left the trees quite dark in this one, so the Triceratops doesn’t blend into the background.

This photo was taken in the Dinopark of the Zoo in Bratislava, about a year ago.

HDR from three images, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, handheld.

Sunset over Kamzik

I went a little through older photos and selected this one for today :) It was taken in May last year from Three towers apartments in Bratislava. I was one of those very nice evenings, visiting friends and taking a lot of photos :)

HDR from three shots taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-200 mm lens, from a tripod.

My MOO cards have arrived :)

Always when I’m somewhere taking photos, I get into discussions with people and usually I would like to leave them a card with my contact. And long time ago I have seen the MOO cards, where you can have different photo on each of the cards :). And now they arrived :) Check out http://uk.moo.com/share/7jcn2b/ for more info :)

Green door to 1906

I wanted to take exactly this photo for the last two years. But every time I passed this building I didn’t have my tripod with me :) But not this time :) This house is right next to the historical center of Bratislava in one of the side alleys.

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