Welcome to my HDR photography blog
Mostly it’s just about the photos, and less about the words :). I try to add a new photo every single day, and for the last two years I didn’t missed a single day. Sometimes I add more than just the HDR photo, trying to add other types of photography, useful tips or anything I find interesting :)
Also please excuse any grammatical errors on this page. I’m not a native English speaker, and I never found out why people are so obsessed with grammar (and I make more errors in my own language :) )
A little info about me:
My name is Miroslav Petrasko, and I currently live in Bratislava, Slovakia. I studied Informatics and currently I work as a game designer. I started with photography about two years ago and directly with HDR. Before that I did a lot of abstract art in Photoshop, so the HDR style was really interesting to me.
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To find a little more about me you can check out the first issue of Pattern magazine where there is a short interview with me. You can view it online here. Or to see which games I worked on check here http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,435480/ (not much yet, but will get better )
Where to find my photos:
The best (and prettiest) way to view my photos is on my smugmug portfolio here hdrshooter.net
All my photos can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theodevil/ or on this blog. I have a 500px account, but I’m struggling a little to keep it up to date. It’s here http://500px.com/hdrshooter I also used to do abstract images and they can be found here http://theodevil.deviantart.com/
Be my friend on:
- Twitter: twitter.com/hdrshooter
- Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/hdrshooter
- Facebook personal account http://www.facebook.com/miroslav.petrasko
- Google+: https://plus.google.com/112590242873326824500
Contact:
If you want to contact me for any reason, please use my email address miroslav.petrasko@gmail.com
And here are few of my favorite photos, just so this page looks better :)
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rontuaru - I love what you’ve done so far! I’ll have to subscribe and I’ll add you to my blogroll! Keep shooting!
theodevil - thank you very much :) I’ll definitely will keep on shooting :)
Tom Beidler - Beautiful stuff! Saying I love the colors is a major understatement. They are awesome. Creative common license my butt ;) Dude, you should go commercial with this stuff. You deserve it.
Miroslav - Thank you :) And I’m already doing some commercial work with my photos, but it’s starting up very slowly.
Margarete Miller - Well, Miroslav, for me your photos have been a trip down memory lane. I lived on the corner of Bajkalska and Vajnorska for 4 years and looking at these photos of BA, done in such an artistic and technically amazing way, makes me very nostalgic. But the HD imagery really goes a long way to make me feel like I’m actually there, looking at what you have photographed.
Truly excellent work. Congratulations on what you’ve done thus far and I’m looking forward to what you produce next.
Miroslav - Thank you very much :) I’m will be adding more and more photos, and a lot of them will be from Bratislava :). Hope you enjoy my new ones as much as the once already online (or maybe more :)).
Michal D. - as I’m interested in HDR, I must admit your work is just stunning!! I love your technique, keep it up!!!
Miroslav - Thank you :). I will :) if you have any questions about HDR feel free to ask.
Michal D. - I definitelly will, many thanks ;-)
Consuelo - great job! :D
Miroslav - Thank you :)
Mohd - Excellent Work
Well done
I have a question please:
It is about the wordpress theme your are using?
How did you modified the width? do you use Custom design?
Miroslav - Thank you :) And yes, I use the Custom Design upgrade on my blog, where I changed the CSS setup of the theme. It was the only way , that I found, how to change the width.
Mohd - Thanks for your reply
I use the Custom Design upgrade. Can I ask what CSS section you changed to increase the width?
Miroslav - i had to change
#page { width:1180px; }
#content { width:865px; }
.post .entry img { max-width:841px; }
and reedit all background images so they fit
#main-top { background-image:url(‘http://path here.jpg’); }
the same for #main, #main-bot, .post .meta .bot, .post .meta, .post,div.attachment, .post-navigation, .comment .comment-body
Mohd - Thanks…
I will try that.
Mohd - I changed the page, content..etc
I got a wide width but the border and the post area (the white curved area) is not displaying correctly
Miroslav - probably just the images are off, you have to create wider versions of the theme images, and replace them
Mohd - ok perhaps silly question but where can I get those theme images?
Miroslav - :) .. right click on your page in firefox, view page info, then select media… you get the list of all used images, find the ones you need, and save them. Look for main-top.jpg, main-bg.jpg, main-bot.jpg, meta-bot1.gif, meta-top1.gif and post-bg.gif
Mohd - Thanks my friend
livvy30 - Just stumbled upon your blog and I love it. I’ve recently started to do HDR shots, but they’re not as good as yours! Keep posting :-)
Miroslav - Thank you very much :) an I will keep on posting :) And just don’t get discouraged if you first HDR shots are not that good, it takes some time and practice and they get better :)
xandreverkes - WOW!!!! **
Miroslav - Thank you :) :) :)
xandreverkes - Hi Miroslav!! I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award!!! Have a look at my post for details!! & keep the photographs coming!!! I Love it!!! :D **
Rob Newbould - Your work is truly stunning. I’ve been trying to do some HDR photography and I am really enjoying it but I think my shots pale in comparison to yours. I see that most of your images are three exposures. Are you typically doing a 2 EV bracket? I’d also appreciate any help you can give me with the night shots. Yours are amazing. I’m assuming that they are quite long exposures, How are you doing the bracketing on those? Any tips would be greatly appreciated,
Rob
Miroslav - Hi Rob. Thank you very much :) I looked over your photos, and some of them are also really good. Don’t worry, it just takes some time and practice :). And to your questions. I usually take the three brackets at -2,0 and +2 as that’s, what my camera allows on AEB. Usually that’s enough. I also included few tips on night shooting in this post http://hdrshooter.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/night-fishing/ hope it helps.
Steve - Miroslav – truly outstanding work …. your images of Birmingham are some of the best I’ve ever seen. Come back to Birmingham when our new ‘Library of Birmingham’ is finished (externally mid 2012 – internally Spring 2013), I’d love to see how you handle that building with your professionalism.
Miroslav - Hi Steve. Thank you very much :) And as my brother lives in Birmingham I will definitively go there sooner or later :)
John - Fantastic work! Thank you for posting these. They are truly inspirational.
michael C. - I love you work … and with time mines will be just as good or better …I hope so anyway. Like you say it takes time and the way I am I will not stop til I get this down with profection with your help.
Miroslav - Thank you :) And it really takes some time. If you look through my flickr account, you can see my progress from almost the very first HDR photo I created. When I look at them now, I see how bad they look, but I know I had to make all the mistakes to get better :)
Scott - Wonderful work on your site… especially HDR tutorials. Will look forward to seeing more.
Miroslav - Thank you Scott :) There will be more :)