HDR Panorama

I decided to give an HDR Panorama a try and i think the results are pretty nice. (for the orignal panorama check out this)

I went for the dark, Lord of the Rings poster like, look here so please be gentle :D

Easter in Drama City

Easter provided some good photographic opportunities in my colorful home town Drama.

And despite it's dramatic name the city is really beautiful. (click for larger version) :

Work the Exposure 3

New kid on the block. Finally I bought a new camera. Sony A200 (with Super Steady shot by the way).

This time I will create an effect commonly created by photo editing software like Photoshop. Some people call it Zoom Blur.

To do this purely with your camera, simply decide on a shutter speed appropriate for the effect. What you will do is allow some initial time for the image to be imprinted on the sensor and the remaining time you will simply zoom out while the shutter is still open. Depending on the strength of the effect you are after you might want a shutter speed of a small fraction of a second up to several seconds. In my example I wanted a rather subtle effect so I chose a shutter speed of 1/4.

After you decide on a shutter speed all you have to do is adjust the ISO setting and the f stop to something that will provide the correct exposure for your picture. In my case that was ISO-400 and f/5.6.

All that is left is to simply take the picture and before the shutter closes, zoom out the amount you want. what you will have in the end is the Zoom Blur effect.