HDR tutorials on the Internet

I’ve been thinking about adding my own HDR tutorial to this site.  I’m slowly writing it down, but it will probably be months before I’m satisfied with it :). But since there are some really nice ones already online, here are links to few of them:

• Stuck In Customs HDR tutorial – a great place to start, covers all the basic and some widely used plugins
• Vanilla Days HDR tutorial – I started with this one, a great tutorial
• Places 2 Explore HDR tutorial – another, different view on the subject
• Golden Sieve HDR tutorial – includes extensive info on HDR and videos with complete walkthroughs
• Brian Matiash HDR tutorial – includes a lot of info also on taking photos and managing your images

There are many more, but these are the ones I liked the most :). They all have a little different approach to HDR. Quite often, in one you see that you shouldn’t do something, and in a second it’s the way to go :)

I think the best way to start, is to try them all and than decide which parts of them to use, for your own photos.

Sunset over Borinka

I almost thought that I take no photos this weekend. After a whole week of warm weather, it started raining on Friday. But luckily the clouds scattered on Saturday and I could fulfill my plans :). I went to ruins of the Pajstun castle, from where you have this lovely view of the surrounding area.

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

HDR Spotting

I add a lot of my photos also to HDR Spotting (http://www.hdrspotting.com/). I had most of my photos featured, but never selected for an editors’s pick.  It’s a really great place to find other HDR photographers and to see some amazing HDR works.

As it still is in a beta state, you need an invite to join. I still have few of them unused so if you are a HDR photographer and want one, just leave me a note :)

Decay

Some months ago, there was a very heavy fog in Bratislava, so I went out to take few pictures. I found this car parked just few streets from my flat. I really wanted a strong contrast look for this one. I punched the details quite a bit, I left the noise as it was and then run it through Photo Tools to add more details and adjust the colors.

It’s also a little more “artistic” look, than my other photos, but I really like to experiment, trying new techniques and plugins :)

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

First 10 000

I just hit my first 10 000 views on my smugmug portfolio (hdrshooter.smugmug.com). Smugmug really count visit much differently than flickr. The first 10 000 on flickr took ages :)

Thank you all for visiting :)

Abandoned

Interior shots are still a little harder for me to post-process. I can’t really get to the point where I want them to be. This one I edited maybe 10 times, each time I updated how I process my photos. But now I think is quite passable :) (but still can get better :) )

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens. Photo taken at the abandoned military base at Devinska Kobyla above Bratislava

Wallpaper

A lot of searches, coming to this site include the word wallpaper. So I decided to add another section, with some of my photos formated for normal and wide screens, to be used as wallpapers. For now I added 4 photos, but I will ad new ones later.

They can be found here: Desktop wallpapers

Disappearing Road

Just a simple composition here. As it was quite away from the main road, there were very few cars on this road, and I could take this shot.

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens. I took this photo right next to the Cerveny kamen (Red stone) castle in Slovakia

Free desktop wallpapers

You can find many wallpapers here for multiple resolutions. On this page you will find the ones in 2736×1824, 3440×1440 and 3840×1200 resolutions. For the 1600×1200 and 1920×1200, head over to this page.

All wallpapers are for free and can be distributed further, just link back to this site (of course only for personal use, no commercial use allowed without my permission).

Don’t forget to check out other available wallpapers:

3:2 Surface Pro 4, Surface Pro (2017) and Surface Pro 6 wallpapers

These are all sized exactly for the Surface Pro 4 2736×1824 screen, the Surface Pro (2017) and also the Surface Pro 6, but will look great also on all other screens with 3:2 aspect rations, like the Surface 3, Surface Pro 3, Surface Laptop and of course the Surface Book and Studio (there it will be a tiny bit stretched, but still should look great)

Sun at the horizon – 2736×1824

Passerelle Saint-Georges – 2736×1824

Sparkling Eiffel tower – 2736×1824

Star trails – 2736×1824

Before Sunrise – 2736×1824

Photo from Hallstatt – 2736×1824

Passing clouds over Astana – 2736×1824

Low clouds over Paris – 2736×1824

Mirror like Danube – 2736×1824

Golden hour in Manarola – 2736×1824

Reflected colors of Autumn – 2736×1824

Dubai Marina in Blue – 2736×1824

Lamp at the canals – 2736×1824

Sunset at the beach – 2736×1824

Burj Khalifa – 2736×1824

Sunset windmills – 2736×1824

Red One – 2736×1824

First One – 2736×1824

Landmarks in the night – 2736×1824

Very high up – 2736×1824

Secret place – 2736×1824

Flooded by the sunlight – 2736×1824

Blue hour at the Charles bridge – 2736×1824

Midnight lights – 2736×1824

21:9 wallplapers

These are all sized for a 34inch 21:9 screen, with a resolution of 3440×1440, but will also work nicely on any smaller (and even bigger) screen with the aspect ratio of 21:9.

Winter Panorama – 3440×1440

Snow covered Hallstatt – 3440×1440

Sunlit reflection at the Altausee – 3440×1440

Down at the Hallstatter See – 3440×1440

Autumn in the city – 3440×1440

Sunset at Neusidler see – 3440×1440

Night view of Prague – 3440×1440

High up in the Alps – 3440×1440

Light beams over Bratislava – 3440×1440

Green fireworks over Budapest – 3440×1440

Sunset at schloss Ort – 3440×1440

Walk in the Business bay – 3440×1440

Sunset at the Lighthouse – 3440×1440

Wide reflection – 3440×1440

Keukenhof – 3440×1440

Into the sunrise in Amsterdam – 3440×1440

Wide view in Paris – 3440×1440

Night in the city – 3440×1440

Mirror like Danube – 3440×1440

Sunset in Manarola – 3440×1440

Cloudy skies over Strbske pleso – 3440×1440

Early morning drivers in Paris – 3440×1440

Long exposure over Danube – 3440×1440

Dubai Marina 2018 – 3440×1440

Traunsee reflection – 3440×1440

Amsterdam Panorama – 3440×1440

The path in Traunkirchen – 3440×1440

Business bay in Dubai – 3440×1440

Autumn at the Lake – 3440×1440

Evening panorama of Porto – 3440×1440

Night view of Vienna – 3440×1440

Sunset clouds in Dubai – 3440×1440

The Louvre – 3440×1440

Alps – 3440×1440

Sunset at the Neusiedlersee – 3440×1440

In the metro – 3440×1440

Budapest parliament – 3440×1440

The setting sun in Bratislava – 3440×1440

Dubai Marina – 3440×1440

The bridge fountains – 3440×1440

Late night at the Charles bridge – 3440×1440

Morning glow – 3440×1440

Low Danube under the Apollo bridge – 3440×1440

The curvy road – 3440×1440

Before the storm – 3440×1440

The whole SNP bridge – 3440×1440

Across the Danube – 3440×1440

Amsterdam canals – 3440×1440

City panorama – 3440×1440

Midnight experiment – 3440×1440

Birmingham bus – 3440×1440

Entering the chain bridge – 3440×1440

Blue hour panorama – 3440×1440

Early morning in the Dubai marina – 3440×1440

The fake reflection – 3440×1440

Alpine peaks – 3440×1440

Above Paris – 3440×1440

Very high up – 3440×1440

The epic sunset – 3440×1440

Purple fireworks – 3440×1440

A sunset lighthouse – 3440×1440

Sunset panorama from Hallstatt – 3440×1440

Dual screen wallpapers

This are all made for a setup of dual Full HD monitors 1920×1200. The files are 3840×1200 big, so they should be enough also for any other dual screen setup (if your resolutions are not bigger than Full HD).

Moving underground – 3840×1200

Fake reflection – 3840×1200

Dubai Marina – 3840×1200

Big one – 3840×1200

The Epic sunset – 3840×1200

Panorama from London – 3840×1200

Faded away – 3840×1200

Don’t forget to check out other available wallpapers: