Welcome to my photography blog
I try to add a new post almost every single day, and been doing so for almost 7 years now. That is a lot of posts. Over 2000 right now. I try to add a lot of different stuff, guides, articles, tutorials, reviews and similar. And if you are curious, I’m the only person behind this page, so every change, every picture, every work here, was added by me. It’s quite funny when I get email, where people refer to me as the HDRshooter team.
Also please excuse any grammatical errors on this page. I’m not a native English speaker, and I never found out why people are so obsessed with grammar (and I make more errors in my own language :) )
Contact:
If you want to contact me for any reason, please use my address miroslav.petrasko@hdrshooter.com.
A little info about me:
My name is Miroslav Petrasko, and I currently live in Bratislava, Slovakia. I studied Informatics, worked for a while for Dell as technical suport, then a game designer and scripter on few projects and for recent few years, I’m a photographer full time.
I started with photography about seven years ago and directly with HDR. Before that I did a lot of abstract art in Photoshop, so the HDR style was really interesting to me. You can find a page dealing more with my beginnings with Photoshop here.
Quite early in my experiments with photography I decided to start sharing my photos. There was just no point taking them just to keep them on my PC (and Facebook was not yet there at that time :))
For the first few month I uploaded only to Flickr. But I was not happy, as there I do not have full control of my content (same on every social network). So I started this blog. I definitively did not plan that day, that I will still be continuing with it years later, and even less that I will be a photographer full time once. But one can never predict the future :)
I still try to post daily, even if it’s not always possible. Traveling and busy schedules sometime just do not leave mi with enough energy to do so. And here and there one just needs a bread :) But I will definitively continue posting and updating the site. I’m a stubborn person and I don’t like to give up on stuff :)
To find a little more about me you can check out the first issue of Pattern magazine where there is a short interview with me. You can view it online here or download a pdf version from Dropbox.
I also did a small interview recently for a blog The European quartet, and that can be found here on the European Quartered blog
Blog awards
blogs of 2012 and best HDR photography blog of 2013 by PhotographyBlogAwards :)
Behind the scenes
And to finish this page, here are few behind the scenes shots, where you can also see me :)
With Marek Kijevsky in Dubai. (photos taken by Júlia Kijevská)
With Beboy and Edward Adios on the Eiffel tower and with Antonio Gaudencio at the La Defense Business center. (photos taken by Beboy)
With Elia Locardy in Prague (photo taken by Naomi Locardi) and while taking photos at the Neusidlersee lighthouse (photo taken by Rastislav Bútora)
I love what you’ve done so far! I’ll have to subscribe and I’ll add you to my blogroll! Keep shooting!
thank you very much :) I’ll definitely will keep on shooting :)
Beautiful stuff! Saying I love the colors is a major understatement. They are awesome. Creative common license my butt ;) Dude, you should go commercial with this stuff. You deserve it.
Thank you :) And I’m already doing some commercial work with my photos, but it’s starting up very slowly.
Well, Miroslav, for me your photos have been a trip down memory lane. I lived on the corner of Bajkalska and Vajnorska for 4 years and looking at these photos of BA, done in such an artistic and technically amazing way, makes me very nostalgic. But the HD imagery really goes a long way to make me feel like I’m actually there, looking at what you have photographed.
Truly excellent work. Congratulations on what you’ve done thus far and I’m looking forward to what you produce next.
Thank you very much :) I’m will be adding more and more photos, and a lot of them will be from Bratislava :). Hope you enjoy my new ones as much as the once already online (or maybe more :)).
as I’m interested in HDR, I must admit your work is just stunning!! I love your technique, keep it up!!!
Thank you :). I will :) if you have any questions about HDR feel free to ask.
I definitelly will, many thanks ;-)
great job! :D
Thank you :)
Excellent Work
Well done
I have a question please:
It is about the wordpress theme your are using?
How did you modified the width? do you use Custom design?
Thank you :) And yes, I use the Custom Design upgrade on my blog, where I changed the CSS setup of the theme. It was the only way , that I found, how to change the width.
Thanks for your reply
I use the Custom Design upgrade. Can I ask what CSS section you changed to increase the width?
i had to change
#page { width:1180px; }
#content { width:865px; }
.post .entry img { max-width:841px; }
and reedit all background images so they fit
#main-top { background-image:url(‘http://path here.jpg’); }
the same for #main, #main-bot, .post .meta .bot, .post .meta, .post,div.attachment, .post-navigation, .comment .comment-body
Thanks…
I will try that.
I changed the page, content..etc
I got a wide width but the border and the post area (the white curved area) is not displaying correctly
probably just the images are off, you have to create wider versions of the theme images, and replace them
ok perhaps silly question but where can I get those theme images?
:) .. right click on your page in firefox, view page info, then select media… you get the list of all used images, find the ones you need, and save them. Look for main-top.jpg, main-bg.jpg, main-bot.jpg, meta-bot1.gif, meta-top1.gif and post-bg.gif
Thanks my friend
Just stumbled upon your blog and I love it. I’ve recently started to do HDR shots, but they’re not as good as yours! Keep posting :-)
Thank you very much :) an I will keep on posting :) And just don’t get discouraged if you first HDR shots are not that good, it takes some time and practice and they get better :)
WOW!!!! **
Thank you :) :) :)
Hi Miroslav!! I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award!!! Have a look at my post for details!! & keep the photographs coming!!! I Love it!!! :D **
Your work is truly stunning. I’ve been trying to do some HDR photography and I am really enjoying it but I think my shots pale in comparison to yours. I see that most of your images are three exposures. Are you typically doing a 2 EV bracket? I’d also appreciate any help you can give me with the night shots. Yours are amazing. I’m assuming that they are quite long exposures, How are you doing the bracketing on those? Any tips would be greatly appreciated,
Rob
Hi Rob. Thank you very much :) I looked over your photos, and some of them are also really good. Don’t worry, it just takes some time and practice :). And to your questions. I usually take the three brackets at -2,0 and +2 as that’s, what my camera allows on AEB. Usually that’s enough. I also included few tips on night shooting in this post http://hdrshooter.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/night-fishing/ hope it helps.
Miroslav – truly outstanding work …. your images of Birmingham are some of the best I’ve ever seen. Come back to Birmingham when our new ‘Library of Birmingham’ is finished (externally mid 2012 – internally Spring 2013), I’d love to see how you handle that building with your professionalism.
Hi Steve. Thank you very much :) And as my brother lives in Birmingham I will definitively go there sooner or later :)
Fantastic work! Thank you for posting these. They are truly inspirational.
I love you work … and with time mines will be just as good or better …I hope so anyway. Like you say it takes time and the way I am I will not stop til I get this down with profection with your help.
Thank you :) And it really takes some time. If you look through my flickr account, you can see my progress from almost the very first HDR photo I created. When I look at them now, I see how bad they look, but I know I had to make all the mistakes to get better :)
Wonderful work on your site… especially HDR tutorials. Will look forward to seeing more.
Thank you Scott :) There will be more :)
I’m just beginning to learn HDR. Last night I found your site and I must say that your HDR tutorials are the most extensive I’ve seen thus far. Thanks so much for taking the enormous amount of time it took to write these. Looking forward to giving your workflow a go.
Thank you Steve. Give it a try and if you have any questions feel free to ask :)
Hi Miroslav, Can you tell me how you save the images for web by maintaining the colours and file size.
thank you
Firoze
Hi Firoze. I usually just export the file from Lightroom as a full quality jpg, in sRGB color space. Then I upload it to Smugmug as that’s my main photo host. And after that I just use the Smugmug version, and all the re-sizing on the web is already done by Smugmug.
Congratulation, you have created a great website for everyone interested in HDR, with some outstanding examples. I think HDR techniques should be used to expand the range of what our cameras can capture. Even the top vendors still don’t deliver in this field. Your Tutorial is by far the best I’ve seen, straight foreward and easy to use, thank you for sharing it.
Michael
Thank you very much Michael. Glad you like the site and that the tutorial was helpful :)
ahoj miroslav,your photos are amazing ,you have a great talent and i wish you every success , been to slovakia many times even more so ba ,your photos bring back great memories for me ,your locations are brilliant . great tines for you in the future . mark
Thank you very much Mark :)
Love your site Miroslav, I am sure to be a regular visitor
Thank you :)
Mr. Petrasko,
I am in awe of your work. I would like to thank you for making these gorgeous shots available for us to enjoy, especially the HD wallpaper! I find myself immersed in the glow of the Thames or tracing the arcs and peaks of Prague’s cityscape all day instead of doing my studies! I wish you all the best in your endeavors… and you should know that across the world, in foggy San Francisco, a girl is appreciating your work and daydreaming of these wonderful places every day.
Thank you very much Ariana. Glad you enjoy the photo and I hope you will enjoy also the ones I will still add :) But please, don’t forget about your studies :)
mooc pěkné obrazky. Jen tak dále
Dakujem :)
Zdravim,
možna bych věděl, jak můžete vaše snímky využík komerčně. Věnuji se scetovnímu ruchu a marketingu.
Jaká je technika obrazku a jake je max. rozlišení?
Děkuji za odpověď.
S pozdravem
ing. Borek Seehák
Atypus Travel
2014-03-10 16:32 GMT+01:00 Disqus :
Vacsina fotiek je 5400×3600, a rozmyslam co myslite pod tym ze techika? Jedna sa o fotky vytvarane z viacerych expozicii, ci uz HDR ale manualne blendovanie.
Cože…??? Jak je možné, že tahle diskuse, tyhle stránky a tyhle úúúžasné fotky tady existují už více, než 3 roky a já to vůbec nevím???! Až teď! Jaká obrovská škoda.
Fantastická práce, obrovský cit pro dynamiku a pro detail, nádherné kompozice a perfekcionisticky odvedené dílo.
Jsem okamžitým a trvalým fanouškem… :-)
Mnoho zdaru, jen tak dále!
Franta
Hehe.. Dakujem velmi pekne :) a no.. uz to skoro 5 rokov bude … cez 1500 prispevkov … a neplanujem polavit :)