For today I edited one of the biggest photos I ever took. It’s from last year, but it quite fits, as there is also some snow now in Bratislava. As you can see, the color changes from left to right. This is due to how the blue hour changed into night as I was taking the photos. At first I though I would correct for that, but once I combined the shots, I liked the result more like this.
This photo was created from 10 photos, each one from 5 exposures (so 50 photos in total). The resulting photo is 26000×5600 pixels big, so around 145Mpix. I would probably continued to edit it a little further, but my PC was a little overwhelmed with the amount of data. Even the saved file from Photoshop is over 6gb :)
As this is a little wide view, here is a little zoomed version
And one that is 100% zoomed in.
Number of exposures: 66, Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Lens: Canon 24-70mm F2.8
Focal length: 60mm, Aperture: 5.6, Middle exposure time: 6s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes
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Wow, gorgeous images Miroslav! I can imagine your computer was overwhelmed with all that data! :)
Thank you Rachel .. and yes :) Photoshop used 14gb of memory.. and additional 30gb on the HDD, and it still wanted more :) It was crazy :)
Hi Miroslav, I was surfing the web in my plans for a trip to Prague, and then Budapest, Bratislva and other cities in a cruise I am taking up the Danube, Main and Rhine. I wanted to find the best places to shoot in Prague and came upon your site. After reading all your information with great tips, and looking at your breathtaking pictures, all I can say is I now have to start shooting HDR. I recently bought a Canon 6D but I only have Photoshop Elements. Would you recommend software like Photomatix and then finishing off in Elements? Once again, Thank you for being my inspiration. I have become a fan of your work.
Oksana
Hi Oksana
I’m not really sure what everything one can do in Elements, as I never used it. But anyway. I suggest you download the trial version of Photomatix and Olone Photoengine first, just to give them a try. They both can create very nice results and you can see what suits more your style. You will see, maybe you will be satisfied with the results alone, but I think you will probably end up finishing them in Elements :)
it’s beautiful pano hdr
recently i took the pano hdr and have a question:
how
you made the pano hdr ? first create hdr and then merge together to
create pano or first merge each EV shots then create hdr ?
Thank you.. and I suggest you check the tutorial https://www.hdrshooter.com/guides/combining-photos-for-hdr-panoramas/ I wrote exactly about what you ask :)