My largest photo yet

I went a little bigger here :) It was more of a test than anything else, just to try out how to edit a photo like this. This photo is 200Mpix big, around 18000×10500 pixels :) It was created from 85 photos, 17 sets of 5 shot brackets (should be 18, but I missed one, good that it only was on the sky, so I could correct it). The composition here is a little off, still can’t really visualize how a panorama will look after stitching, still need more practice :)
Photos tonemmaped in Photomatix, then merged in PTgui.

Check out the small photo on the right, it is a 100% crop from it :)

This is a scene where HDR really helped a lot. The contrast between the city and the sun behind it was just too big. This was actually taken the day I went shooting with Elia Locardi (if you don’t know ho he is, check out the links page :)). And I don’t know if it was the presence of a great photographer, but the sunset was just perfect. Like it tried to show off :)

Don’t forget to open the full post to see the original exposure of this photo.

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 :)