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Photo of the Day – Roman Baths in Bath – Reprocessed

In september 2016 we were visiting the southern part of England (UK). I shot a sequence of several bracketed exposure photographs on my tripod, capturing the interior of the roman baths and the cathedral in the background. I initially created a HDR photograph out of five bracketed shots, post-processed with Photomatix and Photoshop. But today, I […]

Photo of the Day – Colourful sky above Eiffel Tower in Paris

A couple of days ago, someone asked me if it was still possible to shoot a unique picture of the Eiffel tower. This monument has been photographed a couple of billion times by now, from all angles and distances, so indeed, it is hard to make a unique picture of this magnificent piece of archtitecture. […]

Photo of the Day – Louis Vuitton Foundation Building in Paris

The Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris. I have shot this picture back in 2015, but I have never got to process it. It is a composition of about 20 separate shots, which means that the full resolution picture is huge and allows a super large print. Paris is absolutely one of my favourite cities. […]

Photo of the Day – Exploring More London Riverside

London is an endless source and inspiration for new creative compositions for photographs. One of the most known of the many magnificent landmarks in London is of course The Shard. I took this photograph a couple of years ago when visiting london with my wife. Shot of the shard at the end of More london […]

Boats on the river Durme at blue hour

Long exposures during blue hour was one of the first kind of pictures I used to experiment with when I started photography about 8 years ago. Because I have recently decided to make the Durme river one of my new photography projects, I thought it would be a great idea to go through some of […]

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How I shoot and edit my handheld hyperlapse

In this blogpost and in the video I will show you how I shoot and edit my handheld hyperlapses. The last couple of weeks I have been experimenting on how to make a handheld hyperlapse videos. I have learned a lot and I will point out my biggest mistakes, so you will NOT have to make the same mistakes again.

HDR Photography – Roman baths in Bath

In september 2016 we were visiting the southern part of England (UK). I shot a sequence of several bracketed exposure photographs on my tripod, capturing the interior of the roman baths and the cathedral in the background. This HDR photograph is a picture created out of five bracketed shots, post-processed with Photomatix and Photoshop. The Roman […]

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Measuring the complete dynamic range with spot metering

Let’s go through the different steps I take to make sure to capture the whole 100% of the dynamic range and to measure the dynamic range of the scene with spot metering. Next I will show how I decide what exposures to shoot to cover this complete range of the scene.

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How to use Auto Exposure Bracketing for HDR Photography

Making multiple pictures with different exposure levels is called exposure bracketing. Exposure Bracketing can be done manually and automatic depending on the possibilities of your camera. Almost all modern digital cameras have a feature called Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB).

Post-processing cityscape of Parliament in Budapest

Today I was going through my photographs of 2014 and I stumbled upon a series of HDR photographs I took during our city trip to Budapest in March 2014. I remember it took about one hour and a half to take all the pictures during golden hour and blue hour. Hungary’s Parliament Building is situated at […]

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Photography tip – Quality of light

In our blog we will regularly post photography tips and tricks that will help you improve the quality of your photographs. Today we start with tip #1. One of the most important rules that will help improve your photographs is very simple yet very often overlooked by many photographers : “shoot at the right time of day”.

London Landmarks

This is my first post on the photoblog of Highdynamicranger.com, and there will be many more to follow. This is a shot of City Hall with tower bridge on the back. Shot on a tripod and post-proccesing done with Photomatix, Lightroom and Photoshop. Last year in June, we were visiting London and I definitely wanted […]