About the author – Miroslav Petrasko

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 three 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 :) )

This video is a slideshow of a lot of my recent photos, so it’s a quick overview what you can find on this blog :)

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 three 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.

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.

I also did a small interview recently for a blog The European quartet, and that can be found here http://www.europeanquartetblog.com/2012/09/look-for-colours.html

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:

I’m most active on Facebook, so there you can find me the most time :)

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 :) 

On the opera stage The opera in Budapest is just stunning.

The perfect sunset It's quite rare to be on a good spot and have the perfect sunset. But sometimes it just happens and you get the most beautiful view.

Apollo Bridge LightsI just love taking photos of bridges. I return to the ones in Bratislava quite often, always trying to get a better shot :). So here is another one of the Apollo bridge, taken about an hour after the sunset. You can see the Bratislava port behind the bridge.HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

Saint Chad's CathedralOne of the many photos I took in Birmingham, UK. I was going for as much detail as possible, when I processed this one.HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, handheld.

Prague TwilightJust got back from Prague. I spend the whole weekend taking photos there, and I think some of them look quite alright :). So here is the first one, of the Staromestské námestie (Old Town Square), taken right after the sun hid behind the horizon. HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

In the CathedralCathedrals are such a great subjects for HDR. With all those details and usually a very weak lighting :) This one ose taken in the Liverpool Cathedral.HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens from a tripos

Christmas tree in PresovHow about another Christmas tree. This time from the city Presov.HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

43 Comments on “About the author – Miroslav Petrasko”

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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    • Miroslav Post author

      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 :)).

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  • Michal D.

    as I’m interested in HDR, I must admit your work is just stunning!! I love your technique, keep it up!!!

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  • 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?

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    • Miroslav Post author

      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.

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  • Mohd

    Thanks for your reply
    I use the Custom Design upgrade. Can I ask what CSS section you changed to increase the width?

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    • Miroslav Post author

      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

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  • 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

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    • Miroslav Post author

      :) .. 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

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    • Miroslav Post author

      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 :)

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  • 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

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    • Miroslav Post author

      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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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    • Miroslav Post author

      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 :)

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  • Steve Sherron

    I’m just beginning to learn HDR. Last night I found your site and I must say that your HDR tutorials are the most extensive I’ve seen thus far. Thanks so much for taking the enormous amount of time it took to write these. Looking forward to giving your workflow a go.

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    • Miroslav Post author

      Hi Firoze. I usually just export the file from Lightroom as a full quality jpg, in sRGB color space. Then I upload it to Smugmug as that’s my main photo host. And after that I just use the Smugmug version, and all the re-sizing on the web is already done by Smugmug.

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  • Michael

    Congratulation, you have created a great website for everyone interested in HDR, with some outstanding examples. I think HDR techniques should be used to expand the range of what our cameras can capture. Even the top vendors still don’t deliver in this field. Your Tutorial is by far the best I’ve seen, straight foreward and easy to use, thank you for sharing it.

    Michael

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  • mark rice

    ahoj miroslav,your photos are amazing ,you have a great talent and i wish you every success , been to slovakia many times even more so ba ,your photos bring back great memories for me ,your locations are brilliant . great tines for you in the future . mark

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