Entry gate

I had another sunrise shot for today, but then decided to go with something a little different. This is the entrance to the Bzovík Fortified Monastery in the village Bzovík in central Slovakia. It’s mostly in ruins, but it still is a great subject for HDR (and a little bit dangerous as the sign after the entrance warns :)).

I used a little different HDR processing on this one. I created a tonemapped image and a double tonemapped one (you hit tonemaping once more, when you are done in photomatix). Then I merged this two around 50% from each and I used the center part from the once tonemapped image.

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens from a tripod.

Almost full moon

My plan for last weekend was also to take photos of the stars, as the 7D has quite nice performance on higher ISO levels. But I didn’t account for the very bright almost full moon. It was so bright, that the stars were almost not visible. So I took photos of the moon instead :)

I actually felt quite stupid when I took this. The reason was, that the setup I used, the 7D with a Celestron telescope, could only capture something above half of the moon and you couldn’t zoom out. And it took me quite a while to remember, that I can create a panorama from multiple shots, to capture the whole moon :)

This is not a HDR shot, I took multiple exposures, but the didn’t align properly and the HDR from a single RAW didn’t look right to me. So I just created a panorama from two shots, removed the distortion and did few steps I usually do in HDR post-processing.

Panorama from two shots, taken with Canon 7D and Celestron CPC 1100 GPS telescope.

New day begins

So this is already one from this weekend. I somehow managed to get up for the sunrise again. The last time there were no clouds, but this time I had this beautiful color show, so I was very pleased. For this one I took 9 shots, from -4 to +4. I did it manually, quickly changing the settings between each shot. I also tried to create a panorama of this sunrise, so hopefully I will upload it sometime later :)

In this shot the Stary Haj area near Krupina in central Slovakia.

HDR from 9 shots, taken with Canon 7D, with Sigma 10-20mm lens, manually focused, manual bracketing.

Wheels

I took so many photos this weekend. I was hoping to have at least one ready for today, but I arrived home quite late and quite tired. So I will have one tomorrow and for now another older shot :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-50mm lens, from a tripod

The red boat in front of the water mill

Another one of my older shots, from my “backup” list (photos which I post, when I have no time to edit new ones :)). But If nothing went wrong, I should have spend the whole weekend taking new photos, so there should be something new tomorrow :)

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