Miracles of underworld

This time I choose omages from cave sistem in Rakov Škocjan, where river Rak flows partly outside and it vaneshes in cave sistems of Slovenian Carst.

The Rak natural preserve is a great place for shooting stunning shots.

The place has direct sunlight only at mid day, so it is almost always great location for creating, but you can imagine dinamic range variation between open shadow and in cave area, so HDR is perfect for great shots.

 

All in Passion for HDR!
Greetings from Slovenia!
Samo Trebižan 

Almost no light...

In some extreme conditions when we are in very low light, we might have only option one shot HDR. If the correct exposure goes over 10 sec there won't be option to bracket +-2EV. We work on lowest ISO for lowest noise and record a RAW file.

I had such case when I was shooting entrance to Planinska cave. Only dim light came from entrance behind the corner. I took one 30sec exposure at ISO200 with Nikon D700 camera and in Lightroom I made 3 exposures. There was so dark in cave that I didn't see anything with my eyes and I had great troubles with focus.

This is the cave shot that came out.

All in Passion for HDR!  
Greetings from Slovenia!  
Samo Trebižan 

 

Ancient cave castle in Predjama...

Five images merged into one HDR of castle which stands on cave entrance and has an interesting story to tell.

The castle is great at any time of the year and in any weather. I was there two years ago at the end of winter.

All in Passion for HDR! Greetings from Slovenia! Samo Trebižan