Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book

The announcements from Microsoft today were quite interesting. I’ve been planing to get a Surface Pro 3 for a while, but decided to wait for the Surface 4 announcement first, and now I have an even bigger choice, with them introduction the Surface Book. What do you think? Which one you like?

Vertical view

I shared a horizontal view form there, and here is also a vertical one. This makes the whole city look a bit different, with also the closes streets to the tower still visible in the photo. I actually regret not going to this spot a bit earlier, while it was still blue hour, but I spend that on the roof. So I have a reason go there again next time.

This is a blend from two exposures, created in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 2, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 23mm, Aperture: 6.3, Middle exposure time: 15s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.842261, 2.321754

No clouds, no nice sunset, but at least one can count on a nice blue hour. And since most of my photos of the Eiffel tower are a part of a more elaborate compositions, here I went simple, just having the tower in the frame.

This is a 3 exposure HDR, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 35mm, Aperture: 16, Middle exposure time: 15s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.861037, 2.292590

Macphun Creative Kit

While on the Mac subject (from yesterday :)), one more thing for Mac users. If you are looking for a set of tools to enhance your photography, you may try out the Creative Kit from Macphun. As the name says, it’s available for Mac only. You can look at this kit as an alternative to offerings from Nik (Google) or Topaz, as it give its own way to accomplish some of the same results, but also different ones.

I’m working on a bigger article about these applications, but since that can take a little time, you might miss on quite a great offer from them right now. In the preparation for an upcoming big update, they are offering a pre-order for the whole Creative kit (Snapheal Pro, Noiseless Pro, Tonality Pro, Focus Pro, Intensify Pro, FX photo Studio Pro) with a huge 80% discount (thats 89usd instead of 455usd, or 99euro instead of 504euro), and you even get the current versions right away.

So if you think that this could be interesting for you, head over to the Macphun site, for more info, to try out their trial version or to order the Creative kit.

Full of light

This shot came out a bit busier than I thought it will be. With all the lights and all their reflection, there is so much detail here, that it’s a bit hard to decide what to look at first. But thats one of the reasons HDR photos look mostly better when seen quite big, so one can take all the detail in :)

This is a HDR from 3 exposures, created in Oloneo PHotoengine, finished in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 27mm, Aperture: 7.1, Middle exposure time: 15s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.887950, 2.250533

I haven’t had that much luck with sunrises in Paris, but at least, the river is bat free early in the morning, and so it’s completely calm. And calm river creates a great reflection :) So here is one, right by the Eiffel tower.

This is a HDR from 3 exposures, created in Oloneo PHotoengine, finished in Photoshop

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 16mm, Aperture: 6.3, Middle exposure time: 15s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.860072, 2.291109

First when I combined this panorama, I thought that I made some mistake somewhere. The sky just looked so different on one side than on the other. But after reviewing the source photos, I noticed that the middle one, has the both skies in the same photos, so there was no mistake :) I think it must have rained somewhere in the middle of this, as it just looks that way.

This one is also quite a big shot, 78Mpix to be exact. It was created from three images, each one from 3 exposures. BTW. I really like this view, so be ready for more photos from this spot over the next weeks :)

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3×3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 24-70mm F2.8, Focal length: 48mm, Aperture: 8, Middle exposure time: 1/4s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.842261, 2.321754