The Red Ferrari 599

Could be very interesting to drive one of these. But who would let me do it, probably no one. But at least I can take photos. I had to play with the red in this one quite a lot. As it was inside a building, the interior lights gave it quite a yellow color. But with a lot of masking and hue/saturations adjustments, I think it looks as it should. I took 5 brackets for this HDR, as it was quite enough. If you look at the before/after you will see, that there was not that much of a dynamic range in the scene.

Desktop Wallpapers

So with the update of the page, I updated also the wallpapers section. There are some new ones there, and all have been updated with a 1920×1200 and a 1600×1200 version.  As always you can find the link in the sidebar or directly here.

Moving clouds over the St. Martin’s Cathedral

It’s quite nice, that they already removed the scaffolding from the St. Martin’s Cathedral in Bratislava. The tower looked quite bad in all of the cityscape shots. I went with 7 shots for this one. The tower is very white now, so the surrounding light makes it very bright, and I wanted to have detail in the whole photo. Also the long exposure of the +3EV photo captured this very nice movement in the clouds.

Promote Control remote review

After a week playing with the Promote Control remote, I have written down my first impressions of it in a review. I will expand it as I work with it more.

I have included also some test bracketing series taken with the help of the Promote, one taken during a sunny day, one at night.

You can find the review here: Promote Control remote review

Decorated ceiling

A lot of people from Bratislava will not recognize where was this taken. I wouldn’t either a few weeks ago. But now I know, that this is the ceiling in the historical building of the Slovak National Theater. The light in the middle is also very interesting. It’s created from hundreds of old style light bulbs and can be switched into different configurations, of which ones are turned on.

Welcome to my new blog

Hope you like it here. After two years I’m leaving wordpress.com in favor of a self hosted wordpress site. This gives me the oportunity to add more stuff to the page, and have it more “my way”.

As you can see, I selected a new theme for this blog. I think its more cleaner than the old one and  showcases the photos much more. It’s not wider than the old one, but it has bigger photos.  If you look over the page, you will see, that there is less info by the photos, but don’t worry. If you view a full post you will see  the detailed information on used gear and my camera settings. Each post now also includes a map, with the location, where the photo was taken.

And don’t forget my favorite new feature, the before/after comparison. Each post in this category includes a comparison between the normal photo (0EV exposure) and my final HDR. Just select the big before/after button on the right, to see which posts include this comparison.

I’m still working on the new site, so there will be more changes as I add them. If you find anything that is not working, please let me know.

Thank you for all your visits, comments and support, I hope you all like this new blog :) 

The old blog (hdrshooter.wordpress.com) will be updated for the next few days, and after that I will turn on a redirect, so it points to the this one.

Testing the Promote

I have the Promote remote for a week now and I have been testing it quite a lot. And i decided to try it on one of my favorite views in Bratislava, the view of the New Bridge. I did 7 shots here. I could use even more, as still there are few overexposed areas. But still, I’m very impressed with the amount of detail you can get when using more than 3 shots.

Red

These old cars are so beautiful, and great for HDR :)

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