Frozen leafs

New Year is coming but I have some images left to this year as well. At Christmas morning I was photographing in Hyvinkää. Weather was great few minus degrees and clear sky. I spotted few frozen oak leafs and took few shots of them. I used ISO speed 160 and focal length 55mm. Lens I used was my kit lens Canon EF-S 18-55mm DC III. This shot is hand-held and flash didn't fire.

Frozen Oak Leafs

HDR image of yellow toys

It was boring to sit inside because there is raining all day long at few days in row so I decided to play with my Canon EOS 1100D and take a HDR image of my sons toys. Those yellow toys were good subject to take HDR shots. I take photos hand-held and without flash. I can't remember the ISO speed just now but I think it was 800 or so. This HDR image is post processed with Photoshop CS5.1 and Nik Software - HDR Efex Pro. I like the colors in this one.

Yellow Toys HDR

My neighborhoods church in HDR

I was wondering the first snow of this winter with my Canon EOS 1100D. My neighborhoods church looks great in that night so I decided to take a HDR shots from it. Shots were taken hand-held and without flash. ISO speed was 1600 because my tripod was home and I need to get pictures faster. I like the mood of this HDR image. Shadows and details are quite good in my opinion.
Shots is merged with Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 and Nik Software - HDR Efex Pro. I used 3 shots in this one and exposure values were -2, 0 and 2.

Neighborhoods church in HDR

Smoke passing by HDR

This is again from central of Tampere city. Weather was windy and cold but I still went out and take my camera with me. I took this HDR with ISO speed 200 so the exposure timing was quite long and the smoke looks fancy in this one. The HDR is merged from 3 shots all with different exposure values. Shots were taken with tripod and without flash. I like the atmosphere and reflections in this HDR image. I hope you like it as well.

Smoke passing by HDR

Bike racks on snow HDR

I was taking photos yesterday evening in the central of Tampere. I found these bike racks and decided to take a HDR image. I set my tripod as low as I could and got quite good perspective. I used ISO speed 800 and I took 3 shots with different exposure values. Here is the result:

Bike racks on snow HDR

I like the mood of this HDR image. Colors turned out quite good and some details are good too. Especially I like that big window and its colors.

First snow of this winter

First snow has come. I was walking in our neighborhoods and take some photos of the first snow of this winter. I used my Canon EOS 1100D and EF-F 18-55mm DC III lens. I didn't take my tripod with me so the shot is taken hand-held. I used 3 shots in this one and I like the colors came out. I like quite much of HDR effects. Here is the result of yesterdays photo walking.

Forest path with lights HDR

Nightly street view before the snow

Little older photo today as well. This one is taken before the snow has landed in Tampere in this week. I took this one few weeks ago. This is merged also from 3 different shots. I used again Photoshop and HDR Efex Pro to merge this HDR photo. This picture is taken near at Church of Finlayson.

Street view HDR

Church at night in HDR

This is few weeks old HDR picture. I took it when I was walking in Tampere at nigth few weeks ago. I used Canon EOS 1100D and Canon EF-S 18-55mm DC III with this one. It is also merged from 3 shots as almost all of my HDR pictures. I used exposure values -2, 0 and 2. I also had my tripod with me so this is taken with it and ISO speed was 200. Photoshop and HDR Efex Pro helped much again and here is the result of Church of Finlayson at night!

Church of Finlayson at night in HDR

Panorama

I was walking on our nearest beach in this week. I took this panorama picture when sun was setting. I used PhotoStitch to merge all those 5 shots to one panorama but I don't like the result that much. PhotoStitch didn't make it so well and I don't know how to correct its result manually. I used tripod to take these shots and I double checked that it was well placed before shooting so I think that those photos are good but PhotoStitch didn't merge them that well I thought. I used my Canon EOS 1100D and kit lens. I think I need more practise to make good panoramas. Click the picture and you see it bigger.

Peltolammi in panorama

One of our cats

Our black and white cat is posing in this photo. This one is taken my regular gears Canon EOS 1100D and Canon EF-S 18-55mm DC III. The photo is taken hand-held and ISO speed was 3200 probably I forgot ISO AUTO on because it is so high in this shot. Flash did not fire because I didn't want to scare our little cat.

Black and White cat

Excavator in HDR picture

Yesterday I was walking in my neighborhoods and spotted this excavator. I wanted to take a HDR shot from it because I think that its color looks great in HDR. I tonemapped the picture and set saturation quite high so I got that nice yellow out there. This one is taken with Canon EOS 1100D and Canon EF-S 18-55mm DC III. It was hand-held shot without flash. This is merged from 3 photos with different exposure values. I used Adobe Photoshop and Nik Software - HDR Efex Pro to merge this one.

Excavator in HDR picture

Life preserver HDR

This one was take our nearest beach few days ago. I used Canon EOS 1100D with my kit lens EF-S 18-55mm DC III. This is merged and tone mapped with Adobe Photoshop and Nik Software - HDR Efex Pro.

Life preserver HDR

JTS City Rails Tour in Tampere

JTS City Rails Tour was in Tampere at Saturday 26.11.2011. I take a photo at their rails before the tour starts.
Setups I used:
ISO speed: 400
Exposure: 1/10 sec at f/3,5
Focal length: 18mm

JTS City Rails Tour in Tampere

Shelby GT

This shot is taken in Tampere at Saturday. I was there with my family and we see this beauty so I take a photo. I used Canon EOS 1100D and Canon EF-S 18-55 mm DC III lens. Shot is taken hand held and without flash. ISO speed was 3200 and exposure 1/40 sec at f/4,5 when the focal length was 36mm.

Shelby GT

Chilies

I'm also growing chilies and today I'm showing you few of my this seasons chilies. This photo is taken with my Canon EOS 1100D and EF-S 18-55 mm DC III lens. I used shutter speed 0.6 and aperture value 5.6 when focal length was 55.0 mm. Flash was off. I tried to get some depth of field effect on it and here is the result:

Chillies

Testing my Canon EOS 1100D at night HDR

I was walking in my neighbourhoods at this night and decided to test my Canon EOS 1100D at night HDR shooting. I walked to the bridge over highway and shot few photos there. This HDR picture is merged from 3 raw photos with Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 and Nik Software - HDR Efex Pro. I set shutter speed quite low so I got those fancy light lines in this picture. I like the colors in this HDR.

Highway at night in HDR

Steakhouse with red lights

This photo is taken last weekend at Saturday night at the same trip as the picture of the bridge. I used same equipments with this one. I tonemapped this picture with Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 and Nik Software- HDR Efex Pro. I personally like the lights in this one. Picture is heavy structurized and took with high ISO values so thats why it is very grainy but still I like the mood in it. I hope you like it too!

Steakhouse with red lights

Factory in HDR picture

Yesterday I was photographing at centre of Tampere as well. Weather was great minus 4 degrees and sun was shining. I walk around the city and took this shot near of Laukontori. I used Canon EOS 1100D and EF-S 18-55 mm DC III lens. This picture is merged from 3 shots. Exposure values were -2, 0 and 2. I used Photoshop CS5.1 and HDR Efex Pro to merge and tonemap this one. Personally I like the details I got out of this picture whit those settings I used. I hope you like it as well.

Factory HDR

New Bridge of Ratina by night

Last weekend was great. I got many good photos with my new Canon EOS 1100D and EF-S 18-55 mm DC III lens. I was walking in the centre of Tampere at Saturday night and shot quite many photos. Sadly I didn't took my tripod with me so I had to use greater ISO values and photos are little grainy thats why. This photo is taken near the centre of Tampere and there is new bridge of Ratina with nice lights. This picture is merged from 3 shots with different exposure values. I used Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 and Nik Software - HDR Efex Pro to merge this one.

New Bridge of Ratina by Night HDR

Testing my Canon EOS 1100D

Today I was testing my brand new Canon EOS 1100D SLR camera. I was walking in my neighbourhoods and I took this HDR photo with 3 different exposure values. I used my standard kit lens today. I merged it with Photoshop CS 5 and Nik HDR Efex Pro softwares. I personally like the colors there. The photo is little dramatic in my opinion. And here is the picture:

School of Peltolammi HDR

Zedock's photography blog

Hello everyone!

This is my first post here in Blogger. I decided to start new blog where I will share you my photos with little stories about those photos. I bought a new SLR camera in this week so I will update this blog quite often I think.

I'm taking pictures with my brand new Canon EOS 1100D. I have a standard kit lens EF-S 18-55 mm III DC just now but I might get some new lenses soon.

I will post some photos soon.

-Zedock