Great photographers – blogs and pages

There are so many great photographers out there and I’m proud that I can call many of them my friends. If you like my photos, I’m sure that you will also like theirs. A lot of them also include photography guides and tutorials on their pages so you can also learn a lot from them. I really suggest becoming their fan on Facebook, so you can enjoy their photos regularly.

All rights to photos shown here are owned by the respective photographers and are shared here either by CC license or with a permission from the photographers themselves.Btw. the order is random :)

HDR One Magazine

Before I get to the photographers, there is one other page I have to include first. The HDR One magazine. Here you can find a lot of information from a lot of photographers, guides, tutorials and similar. And its all Free :)
www.hdrone.com & www.facebook.com/hdronemagazine

Trey Ratcliff

Of course I have to start with Trey Ratcliff. The most famous and one of the best HDR photographers out there.
www.stuckincustoms.com/ & www.facebook.com/treyratcliff

Elia Locardi

So many beautiful photos from so many interesting places. Thats what you can find on Elias page. He constantly travels around the world, so every-time there is something new and interesting
www.blamethemonkey.com/ & www.facebook.com/blamethemonkey

Anthony Gelot

On Anthony’s page you can find the most beautiful photos of Paris and of exotic cars.
http://www.facebook.com/AG.photographe

Conor MacNeill

And on Conor’s you can find beautiful photos of London, and from his travels to Asia :)
thefella.com & www.facebook.com/fellaphotos

Nikola Totuhov

Your definitive source for beautiful HDR photos and panoramas from Santorini (and recently also from Bulgaria :) )
nikolatotuhov.com & www.facebook.com/nikola.totuhov

Beboy

Beboy photographies are one of the best examples of manual blending I have ever seen. Such clean and beautiful cityscapes.
www.facebook.com/pages/Beboy-photographies/126332944141004

Danny Xeero

Danny is your source for absolutely beautiful HDR photos from all over Asia
www.facebook.com/xeero88 & www.facebook.com/DannyXeeroPhotography

Pawel Tomaszewicz

Pawel has so many beautiful coastal scenery’s from UK and a lot of other photos from Poland and other countries.
www.facebook.com/pawel.tomaszewicz & www.facebook.com/pages/PawelTomaszewiczs-Photography/109451435806103

Peter Talke

Peters work was a big inspiration to me when I started with HDR photography. His page also includes a great HDR tutorial.
places2explore.wordpress.com & www.facebook.com/pages/Peter-Talke-Photography/78732682661

Jimmy Mcintyre

Best known for his HDR one magazine, but also one of the best HDR photographers himself.
strange-lands.com/daily/ & www.facebook.com/strangelandstravelblog

Girolamo Cracchiolo

I’m not sure if Girolamo lives next to a beautiful lake, because I can’t find any other way he can capture such stunning sunset without being there everyday :)
www.omalorig.com & www.facebook.com/GirolamoHDRphotos

Jim Nix

When I met Jim he said he travels only a little. But on his page you can find a lot of great photos from all over the world :)
www.nomadicpursuits.com & www.facebook.com/NomadicPursuits

Klaus Herrmann

Also know as Farbspiel, is best know for all his beautiful vertoramas. And all are taken handheld!!!
farbspiel-photo.com & www.facebook.com/klausherrmann.farbspiel

Daniel Cheong

The absolute master of digital blending and blue hour cityscapes. You can easily get lost with all the details in his photos :)
www.facebook.com/danielkhc & www.flickr.com/photos/danielcheong/ & 500px.com/DanielCheong1

Wojciech Toman

It’s always best to get your information from the source. And since Wojciech is one of the programmers on Photomatix, you know his tutorials have the best information.
www.facebook.com/WojciechTomanPhotography & hdrphotographer.blogspot.com

Dave Morrow

For all of you who like beautiful astro-photography and gougers landscapes.
www.facebook.com/dave.morrow & www.davemorrowphotography.com/

Jonathan Danker

If you every wanted a reason to visit Singapore, just look at Jonathans photos :)
www.facebook.com/JonathanDankerPhotography & www.facebook.com/ANSELmedia

Pedro Kin

www.facebook.com/pedrokinphotography/ & pedrokinphotography.com/

There are still more great photographers and I will update this list later on :)

Reflective Theater

I really like reflections in my photos, but there are places where it’s really hard to find them. But sometimes a little of bad luck (a heavy thunderstorm) can help a I got my reflection.

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens handheld. The shot is taken at the Main Street in Kosice, in the shot the State Theatre.

Russian T-34 Tank

Everybody knows that there is a Death Valley in USA, but there also is one in Slovakia. It’s called that because of the WW2 fights done there. There are still few tanks (T-34) scattered around the area which makes it a great place for any photographer :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens from a tripod. There was a really strong sunshine when i took this photo, which created quite nice sun-rays.

So this blog is not just about my photos i will try to add from time to time a HDR tip which i came across while creating my own HDRs. So here is the first one:

HDR tip #1:

Problem: Sometimes when I take my bracketed photos in a hurry it can happen that the darkest photo (usually -2 EV) still has some overexposed areas or the lightest photo (+2 EV) has some very dark areas.

Solution: This helps quite often. Just take the darkest photo into any RAW editor (Camera RAW, Lightroom…) and underexpose it by an additional 1 or 2 EV, same with the lightest photo and overexpose it by 1 or 2 EV. Save the results to separate files and when creating a HDR image, just include the new files with the taken photographs. Like this you will have 5 available exposures instead of 3.

This works as RAW files have more information than you can see, but this usually doesn’t work with JPG files. Hope this helps someone :). If there are any questions just leave me a comment.

In a dark place

I usually take photos of landscapes and architecture, so it’s nice to have something else. HDR from three shots, taken with canon 450d with Sigma 10-20mm lens from a tripos.

Can’t fly anymore

Last week I visited the military museum in Svidnik. They have a lot of WWII machines so I really had a lot of stuff to take photos of :). Not sure what type of plane this is, but the HDR is created from three shots, taken with Canon 450d with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.