Floating above Prague

Every time I look at this photo I think about Jules Verne. It really looks to me like a cover to one of his book :). I’m thinking of trying to create an aged version of it, to make a more vintage look :)

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

New bridge Triangle

One more from Saturday. The sky was nice and clear and you could see into the distance without problems. I thought about how to compose a shot of the New bridge to make it more interesting. And then I noticed, that with the road it creates a very nice triangle. So I centered on it, and I think it quite works.

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

Slovak parliament after Sundown

Went to the Bratislava Castle yesterday to take a few photos, and as the Slovak parliament building is right next to it I took a few photos of it too. Looks like I wasn’t the only one with the idea, as everyone else who was there had a camera :) I took more shots for this one, as the lights were too bright in the -2 shot, so I took a second series from -3. I even created a -4 shot by underexposing it in lightroom, but it still wasn’t really enough.

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

Photo editing

Another little view into my photo editing process. The following image shows the original three shots (-2,0,+2), with the photomatix result (bottom left) and the final image edited in photoshop (bottom right). As is visible, photomatix is used to blend the images, but it’s far from the finished photo.

Plane at the Military museum

One from Eastern Slovakia today. This shot was taken at the Military museum in Svidnik.

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

200 000 views

Yesterday my account on Flickr passed 200 000 views. The second one hundred took about the half time, my first one hundred took, so lets see how long the third one takes  :)

Thank you very much everyone who visited :). Now onto the next 100 000 and more and more photos :)

Triceratops

This one really gave me a lot of work. I took the 3 shot handheld and the alignment was nor really that perfect. So I masked a lot of parts from the original images and also removed few people from the shot. Also I left the trees quite dark in this one, so the Triceratops doesn’t blend into the background.

This photo was taken in the Dinopark of the Zoo in Bratislava, about a year ago.

HDR from three images, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, handheld.