I remember when I started with photography, seeing photos like this one and just not understanding how it was taken. The view from the lens I had (18-200mm) just never looked like that. Of course than I got a nice wide angle lens (10-20 at that time) and I understood immediately. Until one tries one out, one will never understand the difference few mm of focal length can make. The view is just do different.

For this shot I went with the 16mm focal length (of course on a full frame sensor :)). One can get quite an interesting view, by lowering the camera down and pointing it up. This is a HDR from 7 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop. Photo taken in the Hungarian state opera in Budapest.

And one more city post. Today it’s from Budapest.

To see all my favorite photo spots there, check out the Top spots in Budapest page.

New tutorial from Trey Ratcliff

Yesterday Trey Ratcliff published a new video tutorial on his page. And I have to say, it looks quite interesting. You can even find a free 40 minutes tutorial video there. But he also announced a photo contest for everyone who purchases the tutorial. The all expenses paid photo trip to New Zealand sound so good :) Check it out on his tutorial page.

Morning with the gold sky

I published quite a few photos already from this sunrise, but I still got few that I really like. It was one of those sunrises, when you try to get as many photos as you can, and they all look good :)

This is a HDR created from 7 exposures in Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop.

Photomatix Pro 5 – Review

My review of Photomatix pro is quite short, but as I described a lot of it in my HDR tutorial, you can find much more there. But anyway, you can find my review of Photomatix Pro 5 here.

Blown away

You very often read in headlines, that a photo will blow you away. I personally try to avoid that types of descriptions in my photos, as they never mean anything. But here it is different. While I was taking this, the strong wind almost blown me away :) It of course took away a lot of sharpness from the photo, but I think its still manageable.

This is a single exposure edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Second issue of the HDRshooter newsletter

Yesterday evening I send out the 2nd issue of the HDRshooter newsletter. It included a lot of whats new on the blog, but also a link to the Capturing fireworks eBook and also a free set of brackets to play with (for the photo I described in the yesterdays post). If you have missed it and don’t want to miss again, feel free to subscribe now. In the welcome email you will get the link to the eBook, and also a list of all the recent issues. Visit the newsletter page to subscribe, or use the form in the sidebar.

And those who got it, please excuse the few typos in it. I have one in the predefined values and that reflected in the newsletter. That should teach me a lesson not to create accounts when I’m on my tablet :)

First page in popular and strange followers

I haven’t posted this yesterday, as I don’t want to include extra stuff in the process posts, but my photo Moving Underground got to the front page of 500px. I have to say big thanks to all of you who voted, liked and commented on my photos there.

On the other hand, since I got a photo selected for the 500px Editor’s choice, I got a big boost in new followers there. Whats strange is, that all of these look like new accounts, no likes, no favorites, no photos. That would be normal, but what is strange, all of these account follow the same people (mostly the last 10 from the Editor’s choice, few more or less sometime). So to me, these all look like fake accounts. But I just can’t figure out what good are they for. What do you think? Btw. to illustrate this, here is a screenshot, showing a page from my followers, and three of those accounts.

Summer evening in Budapest

Same as almost every winter, I just don’t have enough new photos to post on the blog. So as every time, I have to go back to earlier to choose new photos to edit. So for today I chosen one from my summer trip to Budapest.

This is a HDR created in Oloneo Photoengine from 5 exposures and then finished in Photoshop.