Minaret in Lednice

This minaret is standing in the beautiful park next to the Chateau in Lednice, Czech republic. It a really nice place to take a walk and relax :). The 302 stairs I had to take to get to the top of it weren’t so relaxing, but the view is really worth it (there will be a photo, don’t worry :) )

I’m posting a little more photos from Czech republic right now, as I visited three different towns last weekend, so I have a lot of them :)

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

Inside the Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary

I had really luck with timing with this one. We were passing throught Breclav, when I noticed this church (I will upload a photo from the outside som time later, as it’s really beautiful), so we stopped, to take few photos. There were some people standing in front of the church, with the priest standing by the entrance.

We were not sure if its open, but when we entered, nobody stopped us. So I took few photos form the center of the church, and when I moved to the side, a wedding started :). Then was the first time I noticed that there are some extra decorations in the church :). We just quickly moved to the side of the church, waited till everyone entered, and quietly left :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod. This photo was taken inside the Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Postorna, in Breclav (Kostel Navštívení Panny Marie v Břeclavi).

Chateau Mikulov

One of the many photos I took of the Chateau in Mikulov, Czech Republic.

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

100 000 views

Yesterday I hit my first 100 000 views on my smugmug portfolio www.hdrshooter.net. Thank you very much to everyone who visited my site :)

All the people on the Karl’s Bridge

This is the view of the Karl’s Bridge from the top of the Petrin tower. You should bring a nice zoom lens when you go there :). From this point you can really see how much people are on the bridge. It’s really a lot :). This is one of those photos, where I would love to have a camera with more megapixels. There is so much detail lost in this photo.

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

Brackets

Since in my todays post I also mention the HDR processing steps, I though I also show the original brackets :) So here they are:

Also the Photomatix setting I used were: Strength 86, Color Saturation 70, Luminosity 2.5, Microcontrast 5.9 and Smoothing at 3.2. All other settings at default.

Green house in Brno

This is my favorite house in Brno. Each time I’m there I have to take few pictures of it :). They are currently restoring it, so lets hope it keeps this nice, classic look.

I vent quite light on the post-processing on this one. All I did, is they I combined the shots in Photomatix, and then removed noise in the sky and added a little more detail with Tonal Contrast in Color Effects Pro (but only at around 30% opacity). A little more contrast before the export and thats all :) I wanted a more realistic, not oversaturated look. I think I quite succeeded :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod. Photo taken at Brno, Czech Republic