Macromo.de

There are many sites on the Internet to find interesting photographers. Macromo.de is one of them. It’s quite small by now, but I really like the simple interface which makes the photos the primary subject, with all other page elements hidden.

It’s really worth the visit :)

Still frozen

I like playing with the depth of field. Usually in HDR photography you try to have everything as sharp as possible, but some time, it’s better like this. I took this one with my 18-50mm lens at 50mm F2.8.

I took this photo 3 days ago. I took a little trip to the top of Devinska Kobyla (hill near Bratislava) and since there was no snow in the city, I was quite suprised to see the whole woods still frozen over (no snow, just ice).

HDR from a single RAW, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-55mm lens, handheld

80 Days – 8,000 Photos

Have you seen the new Trey Ratcliff’s Stuck In Customs video 80 DAYS – 8000 PHOTOS? No? Then go and watch it :) It can be found here or here.

It’s quite hard to describe, as it’s just a slideshow of a lot of photos. But what a slideshow :). I really like it. The combination of photos, video and music created a masterpiece. Now to count the photos, if there really are 8000 :)

Night Lights

I’m actually quite happy with this one :). I almost thought all photos taken that evening have a lot of reflections on them, as this was shot through a double glass windows and even with the light turned off there still was a lot of them.

Not saying which part of the city this is, lets see how long, before someone from Bratislava finds that out :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-200mm lens, from a tripod, somewhere in the center of Bratislava

New Bridge

I really don’t like where the Aupark tower (the skyscraper in the back) stands. It really is in the way when you want to take a shot of the New bridge from the Bratislava Castle.

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 18-200mm lens, from a tripod.

Before & After

It quite interesting to see the comparison of the original photo and the finished HDR. So to see the difference, here is one of my recent shots

(click on it to see it bigger)

I would like to include the steps I did to process it, but I’m not quite sure. I flatten my images when I’m finished with them, and I change the way I edit the photo with every photo. Just that HDR was combined and tonemapped in Photomatix, then few errors corrected in Photoshop (like grey snow) and finally I used OnOne PhotoTools on this one.

Pink Horizon

I took this photo at Cunovo Dam near Bratislava. It was taken at sunset so it gave it this nice pink and blue color.

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

Red Wheel

Some time ago I uploaded a photo of the water mill in Jelka. This is one of the shots I took inside, the mechanism moving the whole mill. I of course took more shots, which I will add later on :)

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