Photography Masterclass magazine

One of my photos was featured in the latest issue of the Photography Masterclass magazine for iOS. And they also gave me this link to a special page for anyone who would like to get a free 3 month subscription to the magazine. So feel free to use it :)

Quiet blue hour

I’m was quite busy the recent few days, and I still will be few more, so I don’t have that much time to edit. So I’m choosing photos where there is not that much to edit :). Same today. This is a blue hour shot I took last week by the SNP bridge. It mostly from single exposure -2EV in which I brightened the foreground from the -1EV and darkened the castle with a -3EV exposure I created in Lightroom. That almost all I did.

500px > Best Pictures

If you want a nice way to find great images on 500px, I suggest you check out this Flipboard magazine 500px > Best Pictures by a fellow photographer Servalpe. I really like the photos he selects and usually just end up following most of the photographers in the selection :)

Red sky

Did I miss something or we really are already in February? Time sometimes really flies. But to turn it back for a second, I edited another photo from the New years fireworks. Actually I think I should have posted this shot two days ago, so it would nicely fit with the Chinese new year :)

This is a single image, split into three in Lightroom and blended together in Photoshop.

Practice panorama

As I said yesterday, I was curious about how a gigapixel pano would look like. So just for fun (and practice), I tried to take one from the balcony of my apartment. I almost got it. The result was around 800Mpix. Funny how quickly one learns about file format limits when one tries to save something like this. jpg can’t be over 30 000 pixels wide (ok, it can, but Photoshop will not open it), tif can’t be over 2gb in file size and so on :)

Missing snow

Yesterday I went out again to shoot, as the snow was falling. And that was exactly what I wanted, a photo with the castle with falling snow. But for the second time this week, as I got to the location I wanted, the snowing stopped. So I ended up with few blue hour shots, and will have to try again next time.

This is a 5 exposure HDR created in Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop.

For today I edited one of the biggest photos I ever took. It’s from last year, but it quite fits, as there is also some snow now in Bratislava. As you can see, the color changes from left to right. This is due to how the blue hour changed into night as I was taking the photos. At first I though I would correct for that, but once I combined the shots, I liked the result more like this.

This photo was created from 10 photos, each one from 5 exposures (so 50 photos in total). The resulting photo is 26000×5600 pixels big, so around 145Mpix. I would probably continued to edit it a little further, but my PC was a little overwhelmed with the amount of data. Even the saved file from Photoshop is over 6gb :)

As this is a little wide view, here is a little zoomed version

And one that is 100% zoomed in.

PhotoME

Did you ever had the need to change the meta data info off an image? I had. Especially when I create panoramas from multiple exposures and somehow one of the images gets a wrong exposure time (e.g. 15 seconds instead of 16 second) and the panorama program refuses to recognize the series as HDR because of that.

I searched for a program to correct this problem, and I found this one. PhotoME. It’s small, easy to use, and best of all it’s free. So if you have such need, to edit this info in your photos, give it a try.

You can download it from their page: www.photome.de

33 minutes

That’s exactly how much time you see in this photo. As I mentioned by my other star trails photo, I managed to get two photos that evening, and this is the second one. Fro this one I had to combine 66 thirty second shots so it took 33 minutes to take this photo. The clouds were also moving, but luckily around 10 minutes in, they sky got completely clear. Also there was a slight movement in the water, so it blurred the reflection a little.

All the 66 shots were combined using Photoshop.