Few moments after sunrise It's really worth it to get up early. This photo was taken just few minutes after sunrise and I can really say, I'm happy with it :) The one really good thing, about this place is, that you can get there with a car. So it only took few minutes to get there :) In this shot the Stary Haj area, near Krupina in central Slovakia HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

Almost full moon My plan for last weekend was also to take photos of the stars, as the 7D has quite nice performance on higher ISO levels. But I didn't account for the very bright almost full moon. It was so bright, that the stars were almost not visible. So I took photos of the moon instead :) I actually felt quite stupid when I took this. The reason was, that the setup I used, the 7D with a Celestron telescope, could only capture something above half of the moon and you couldn't zoom out. And it took me quite a while to remember, that I can create a panorama from multiple shots, to capture the whole moon :) This is not a HDR shot, I took multiple exposures, but the didn't align properly and the HDR from a single RAW didn't look right to me. So I just created a panorama from two shots, removed the distortion and did few steps I usually do in HDR post-processing. Panorama from two shots, taken with Canon 7D and Celestron CPC 1100 GPS telescope.

New day begins So this is already one from this weekend. I somehow managed to get up for the sunrise again. The last time there were no clouds, but this time I had this beautiful color show, so I was very pleased. For this one I took 9 shots, from -4 to +4. I did it manually, quickly changing the settings between each shot. I also tried to create a panorama of this sunrise, so hopefully I will upload it sometime later :) In this shot the Stary Haj area near Krupina in central Slovakia. HDR from 9 shots, taken with Canon 7D, with Sigma 10-20mm lens, manually focused, manual bracketing.