500px

For a longer time I have noticed a lot of photographers creating a site also on 500px.com. After thinking it over I decided also to give it a try, registering at http://500px.com/hdrshooter . As now I have my photos on this blog, on flickr and smugmug, it’s really starting to be too many sites. Currently I have all for a certain purpose, the blog is great for additional stuff (as this for instance :)), smugmug is a great portfolio site and flickr is for comunity. So the 500px looks like a nicer flickr replacement. What do you think?

Wagons in the harbor

Trains can give you such a nice vanishing point, the longer the better :). This photo was taken earlier this year in the Bratislava harbor. The sun was already quite low, and behind me, so if you look closely you can see the shadow of the camera.

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

Night in Prague

I took quite a lot of shot in the center of Prague. The view at night is really beautiful.

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

Strbske Pleso

These time I edited one of the photos I took like two years ago. This was actually the first time I started shooting bracketed shots for HDR’s :). I didn’t have my DSLR with me, but I had a borrowed Lumix TZ3 camera, which supports bracketing. It was only from -1 to +1, but better than nothing :).

This photo was taken at the Strpske Pleso in Hight Tatras in Slovakai. Taken with Lumix TZ3, HDR from three shots, taken handheld.

Somewhere in Austria

I have no idea where I took this shot :). It was taken on the way from Bratislava, Slovakia to Cologne, Germany and we were taking a break at a Gas station, from which was this lovely view. It was a very cloudy day, and it actually started raining in the next few minutes :)

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

Hanavsky pavilion

This is one of my handheld HDR’s. It’s always a little bit of a hit or miss. A lot of them are really not usable, either not sharp enough or they can’t be aligned at all. Usually I don’t bother and just go to another photo. Just when I see that the photo is really promising I stick with it :). What I found, that a great way to do it, is to tonemapp just a single exposure, and then just mask in parts, which need to be fixed. Usually when you cannot align the whole image, its still possible to align a smaller part.

With this photo I had absolutely no problems :). The alignment worked perfectly, I just had to correct the moving people. This is the Hanavsky pavilion, which is situated on a hill above Prague. There is a great view of the city from here, and you can actually see it a little in the bottom right part of the photo.

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