Article on composition

I wrote an article about photography composition for the HDR one magazine. It’s a collection of rules you can follow to get better photos. For those interested, it can be found here.

Panorama from Rocky Mountain Lake

I had a panoramic head for some time, but haven’t used it that much. But as I bought a new PC recently, I finally have a computer that is able to handle images of this size. For instance this one is stitched from 9 photos for a total 70 megapixels in size. This is one of the panoramic shots I took at the Rocky Mountain lake in High Tatras. I went there during Christmas for a little trip :)

Photo usage

It was not a nice day today, as again I was forced to post a copyright claim with Facebook. A page (which I refuse to link to) again posted my photos. 11 of them this time. All with their own logo, without mentioning my name or saying that they are not the owners. And this is after I complained yesterday about them using one of my photos like this and Facebook already taking it down. Really not nice…

So just to reiterate. All my photos are shared under Creative Commons licence. That means you can: share my photo for any noncommercial purpose, as long as you mention that I’m the author of the photo and link back to this page but you can’t: use my photos for commercial purposes without acquiring a licence from me or modify my photos in any way (including your logo is a modification)

If you just post a photo to your personal account or use it as a cover on Facebook, and don’t mention me, that fine (it’s nicer if you do, but I will survive if you don’t :)). But adding a logo to them and pretending they are yours is a theft and will be handled accordingly.

Mountains

A lot of Slovakia is covered by very beautiful mountains. And Lomnicky Peak is one of the highest ones here. Great that you can get up using a cable car :) It was fun to take photos there, as every time I set up for a shot, the wind came and blown in clouds into the shot. So I set up somewhere else the wind came again and I had to move again. And just waiting until it gets better was also not an option, as the entry is only for 50 minutes :)

The low reflection

This is the Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava, currently still with the Christmas decoration on. And I really like the lights, so I wanted a reflection of them. And as the fountain in front of it is currently turned off for the winter, no luck with water reflection. But as it was raining earlier today, the shiny stone blocks around the fountain were quite clean. And that’s where I found my reflection. I placed the camera right on top of one of them and took my shots. Haven’t even used a tripod :)

Watermarks

As you can see from the photo, there will be one small change from today. Something I wanted to avoid for a long time, but will do it from now. All my new photos will have a watermark on them. Maybe it won’t look like this one, as this is only the first iteration.

I have seen many times, people sharing my photos without giving me credit, and I usually don’t mind. But as now some of them also started adding their own logo to the photo, I had to do this. I wonder what kind of person you have to be to take someones work, add your logo to it, and then represent it as yours….

More explosions

And here is another photo from the New Years fireworks in Bratislava. They really were wonderful and I really like that each photo I posted of them, has a different color to it :)

Colorful explosion

I promise, this is the last fireworks photo from me (for now :) )