Friday, December 24, 2010

Merry Christmas to you !

Monday, December 20, 2010

Moon Aura

Today instead of "crater hunting" I turned my attention to a relatively rare phenomena, Moon Aura. Most often it is due to fine ice crystals at high altitude reflecting the light overwhelmed with even slight cloudiness or pollution.It was like a Rainbow around the moon, but for some reason only the variation of blue and yellow was captured by the sensor a 6 or 8 sec. exposure with f8 and ISO 200 ~150mm. I added a bit of contrast and replaced the moon overexposed silhouette with a correct exposed one...

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Winter trip

Today I went out with my wife and 3 month old son for a small trip near the city, when I saw this nice composition in my rear-view mirror.
Winter trip

Testing the Vivitar MC 2X-22 Tele Converter with Soligor 60-300mm

Today I was trying my luck with my Soligor telephoto lens, the result I think was better, of course I needed to sharpen the image, but this 20 year old lens has a finer focus ring then the Tamrom I used the other day...

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Testing the Vivitar MC 2X-22 Tele Converter

About a month ago I brought a Vivitar MC 2X-22 Tele Converter for moon photography, from a 300 mm telephoto lens I can get out about 600 mm, BUT I was shocked about the result,..., negatively.It is very hard to take a sharp image with TC manual focus, I need to rise the ISO to 800 which is the extreme acceptable limit of the K10D, outside the temperature was around -12 Celsius, not the clearest sky, so I need to test a little more for a final verdict! I'm going to regret that I bought this Tele converter?!?


Click on the photo for original size, 300 mm (photo taken in october) compared to a 600 mm (photo taken in december) with tele converter:

What is you're opinion?

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Candle

Candle

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Inside Bánffy Castle II.

Inside near the main entrance
Time

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Inside Bánffy Castle

Back side of the castle, the enterence to the tower HDR B&W
Door in the middle section of the mansion HDR
Original decals found on the floor
Original decals found on the floor (Hand held and a bit blurry)

Friday, November 19, 2010

Light Bokeh

Light Bokeh

Light Bokeh

Monday, November 15, 2010

Half Moon

Half Moon ( I really need a teleconverter) 100% crop

Sunbathing

Sunbathing

Friday, November 12, 2010

The Moon today

The moon - Pentax K10 | 300 mm | f11 | 1/90 sec.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Streamy Waterfall III.

Streamy Waterfall III.

Friday, November 05, 2010

Cemetery

Cemetery at Calvaria Church - Cluj
Poor or rich,..., at the end, we all experience the world beyond our imagination

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Happy Halloween

I ain't afraid of no Ghost !!!

Streamy Waterfall II.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Streamy Waterfall

Streamy Waterfall with fallen leaves

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Bánffy Castle front

Bánffy Castle front in Black&White

Monday, October 25, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Bánffy Castle

Bánffy Castle is an architectonic Baroque monument situated in Bonţida (Bonchida), a village in the vicinity of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was owned by the Bánffy family , sometimes also called "The Versailles of Transylvania".
The castle was desecrated during World War II by German troops and neglected by the communist regime in Romania;Currently is being restored but anyway, this castle has it's magic even it is ruined...
HDR and B&W
HDR
Original


More to come...

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Monday, September 20, 2010