Usually when I take photos of churches, I try to show the symmetry there and so take the photos exactly from the center. But when I’m done with that I always take few photos from the sides, just to have also something different. And here is such a side photo from the Pannonhalma arch-abbey.
This is a HDR created from 6 shots in Oloneo photoengine. Btw. the circle window in the back had no decorations and it was this milky white color, so that’s why I left it overexposed, and haven’t pushed the exposure more down.
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- Technique: Oloneo Photoengine
- Number of exposures: 5
- Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8
- Focal length: 16 mm
- Aperture: 5.6
- Middle exposure time: 4s
- ISO: 100
- Tripod used: yes
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Where was this photo taken:
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Hi Miroslav
I am a daily viewer of your blog and very much enjoy your beautiful HDR photos.
You always post your camera settings which I think is nice, but I have been wondering about one thing. Mostly your aperture setting is quite low, why is this?
I mostly put mine in the 8-13 range, as here you get a large depth of field and this is also usually where most lenses are sharpest.
Best,
Per Kaer
Hi Per
it’s simple.. I just hate to wait for the camera to finish the shots. As you maybe also noticed, the exposure times are usually quite long, and if you take into account that I take 5-7 brackets, it can easily take more than 1 minute to take a single series. And as I don’t like to use the higher ISO settings, I go for a larger aperture.
On the other hand, since I use a wide angle lens with manual focus, even on such bigger apertures I get enough DOF for what I need. Btw. most lenses are the sharpest around 2-3 stops below the maximal aperture, and on my f2.8 lenses it’s usually f5.6 orf 6.3, so the photo is even sharper than if I used a f8 or f11 :)
Ahh, I see. Thank you for elaborating :)
Check out my latest post, I went a little more into detail there :)