HDR Spotting

I add a lot of my photos also to HDR Spotting (http://www.hdrspotting.com/). I had most of my photos featured, but never selected for an editors’s pick.  It’s a really great place to find other HDR photographers and to see some amazing HDR works.

As it still is in a beta state, you need an invite to join. I still have few of them unused so if you are a HDR photographer and want one, just leave me a note :)

Decay

Some months ago, there was a very heavy fog in Bratislava, so I went out to take few pictures. I found this car parked just few streets from my flat. I really wanted a strong contrast look for this one. I punched the details quite a bit, I left the noise as it was and then run it through Photo Tools to add more details and adjust the colors.

It’s also a little more “artistic” look, than my other photos, but I really like to experiment, trying new techniques and plugins :)

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

First 10 000

I just hit my first 10 000 views on my smugmug portfolio (hdrshooter.smugmug.com). Smugmug really count visit much differently than flickr. The first 10 000 on flickr took ages :)

Thank you all for visiting :)

Abandoned

Interior shots are still a little harder for me to post-process. I can’t really get to the point where I want them to be. This one I edited maybe 10 times, each time I updated how I process my photos. But now I think is quite passable :) (but still can get better :) )

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens. Photo taken at the abandoned military base at Devinska Kobyla above Bratislava

100 cameras in 1

For the last couple of days I have been playing around with Trey Racliffs Iphone app 100 cameras in 1. Since I only have an Ipod I’m just editing my older shots, to see what result I can get.  So here are few of them:

I quite like that you can stack the filters on each other, to get really different results. The filters “the sky wept in crimson waves” and “when I felt sad, and you were not there” quickly became my favorites :) (and yes, that are really the names of the filters :) )

Its a really nice app and you can get great and very interesting results from it. To get more info about this app, go here: http://www.stuckincustoms.com/best-iphone-camera/

I’m going to post more later on :)

Red and Gold

Still have a few unpublished photos from last years fireworks at Kuchajda lake in Bratislava. Let’s hope this year I have same luck for great shots :).

As probably all fireworks shots, this one is also only from a single RAW file. Before the fireworks started, I took few test shots, to get the time needed, so the surrounding are not absolutely dark in comparison to the fireworks. Then I took the shot on bulb mode with a remote, trying to stick to a similar time.

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

Light Blue

It’s quite interesting to see how the way you post-process a photo gives you a very different result. I edited a similar photo about a half a year ago, and from then I changed my post-processing steps completely. And the result is a completely different HDR photo :)

Photo taken from the Three Towers in Bratislava. In the photo the Tehelne pole (Brickfield) stadium and the New Town in Bratislava. HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

Whole Tree

I really like playing with my wide-angle lens, always trying to fit as much as possible in a single shot :) Here I lowered my tripod to about 10cm from the ground and tilted the camera towards the sky. I really could have used an articulating screen here :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with SIgma 10-20mm lens, on a Manfrotto 190XPROB tripod. Photo taken in the woods near Bratislava, Slovakia at the Zelezna studnicka (Steel Well) area.