Capture PRO v2

I just received my Capture Pro from Peak Design. This was the second project I backed on Kickstarter, and the second one that delivered. It looks quite promising, and I really hope it works as suggested. I will be shooting at an event this weekend, so I will have a lot of time to try it out. I plan to write a review of it after that, so stay tuned :)

More info about this can be found here: Peak design , and here are few photos of it.

The bridge lions

At first I thought I will discard this photo. While I was taking it a group of people passed next to me, so the whole walkway on the left was one big ghost. But than I thought I would give it a try, as I really like the two lions here. So the result is a little darker than I usually prefer, but I still like it.

This is a manual blend from 7 shots. A little done using luminance masks and most just hand painted to blend the exposures.

I really like it when they have the fireworks earlier. Around the end of the blue hour is the best time in my opinion. It’s dark enough so you see the fireworks, but still there is enough light so you get very nice photos. Of course they don’t do that very often and you get fireworks late at night. Of course it was the same in Budapest, so I only got a black sky here.

This is a single exposure edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

I really wanted a photo without a bridge today, but when my head hurts I just cant create anything usable. And as I’ve been sick for the last week, it hurts like hell today. After three hours of trying to create something, I just gave up. So instead, here is one I already had finished few days ago.

This is a HDR created in Oloneo photoengine and finished in Photoshop.

Travel photos

Always when I’m traveling I post a lot of behind the camera photos onto my FB page, so feel free to stop by at https://www.facebook.com/hdrshooter. If all goes as planed, I should be somewhere on the Ljubljana castle right now :)

Calm waters

The only way to get a calm Danube, is to go out shooting very early in the morning (and a long exposure also helps a little :)). Same here in Budapest. There are absolutely no ships on the Danube around the sunrise and with a calm water as this, you will also get very nice reflection.

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

It would be so great to have a sky like that each time I go out to take photos. But on the other hand, it would probably be boring after some time. So it’s probably best that it is how it is :)

This is a HDR from 5 shots created in Oloneo Photoengine, then finished in Photoshop