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this is the start of a big series with some of my best pictures so far. in april, i took a short trip to austria with my mum, so 2 photographers only. we had some nice days, i made 200 pics on the first day. when we drove back after 5 days, both memory cards were full, i shot 3 GBs of pictures. Most of them are HDR, some infrared. I'm afraid i can't sort out any! the nature was just waking up from winter, some brown meadows, where the snow just melted away. the first flower came up, and there was still snow on the higher mountains. perfect conditions for me :)

this one is a panorama from 5 shots, each one HDR. i did it when we were traveling back home. it is the "achensee". i used a polarizer to darken the sky a lil bit, maybe not the best idea if shooting panos. Lens was the 18-55 kit on my 300D.

before i started the tour, i learned a lot of things from ~lonelywolf2, especially when it comes to postwork. He uses HDR mostly and also does some panoramas. In Photomatix, he uses a tonemapping strength around 70 %, and he processes mostly from 3 shots( -2 0 +2 ). The color correcting and enhancing in photoshop is nothing special, but a lot of people wonder how sharp his pictures are. he sizes down the finished shot to web size and then uses smart sharpening with an amount between 50 and 100, radius 0.5 pix.

i am really satisfied with this one, i was lucky to get there in a time when there were almosty no waves on the water.



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wolffuchs's avatar
The picture looks terrific! :wow:

I am from Austria :meow: :heart: