No new photo for today, but instead a new tutorial video :) This is a companion video for my HDR tutorial, specifically the first part How to take photos for HDR. So in this 13 minutes video I’m going through different ways of taking multiple shots, bracketing, manual bracketing, using a promote and using Magic lantern.

Hope you find it helpful :)

The freezing reflection

And not just the reflection, also I was freezing while I was taking this. And I was standing on the ice, which made some very disturbing sounds :)

Manual blend from three shots. Photo taken at the Kuchajda lake in Bratislava.

Light trails on the bridge

A little different view of the Chain bridge in Budapest. I actually wanted to brighten the sky a little, but during my two brightest exposure a bus passed in front of me, so you could see nothing just the bus lights on those shots. So I left it dark. You could ask why I didn’t take another series of shots, but the reason is simple. This is taken from the middle of a roundabout and I definitively know I should not have been standing there :) So I just quickly took a series and moved along :)

This is a manual blend from 5 exposure, used to mostly darken the bridge.

HDR one magazine – January Issue

A new issue of the HDR one magazine came out a few days ago, and this time there are also two articles written by me :) So for all of you who are interested in photography, you can get the newest (and also all other) issues here for free: http://www.hdrone.com/2013/02/january-2013-issue-of-hdr-one-is-now-available/

Light Bridge

Finally a decent shot from this year. I was starting to feel depressed, as I haven’t taken any new landscape photos fro over a month. But when the sky cleared a little yesterday, I ran out to take at least few shots. And my steps went to the Danube, as I wanted to try some long exposure shots with the Hoya ND400 filter which I bought recently. I got some nice shots with the filter, but nothing share worthy, so maybe next time. For this photo I had no need for the filter, as it was taken after sunset and the exposure was long enough even without the filter.

In this photo the Old bridge and the Apollo bridge in Bratislava. Manual blend from 5 photos, exported from Lightroom and then edited in Photoshop.

Blue skies over the cathedral

I sometimes look back, to see if my skills in editing photos evolve. And so I did today. This is a photo I took last year in Madrid. And as I edited a very similar photo a year ago, it nicely shows the difference in how I edited photos then and how I edit them now.

So this is the new photo, edited now:

And this is a photo taken few minutes later, but edited a year ago :)