Eivissa - Old Ibiza Town, Ibiza

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Location: Eivissa – Old Ibiza Town, Ibiza

Exposure details: 5 Exposures merged via Photmatix Pro 4 3.2 sec @ f/4.0 ISO 200 +/- 1 and 2 stops

Processing: Merged 5 exposures with Photomatix Pro 4 then processed using Nik’s HDR Efex Pro

Taken from the perimeter wall of the Old Town of Ibiza town looking up towards Santa Maria Cathedral. I wasn’t sure how this long exposure, night shot HDR would turn out of the typical postcard scene of the old town but after merging the exposures I was pleasantly impressed with the end result. The colours are pretty much replicated as the naked eye could see it the only thing missing which I intentionally cut out was the hustle and bustle of all the people below.

Eivissa or Ibiza Town really seemed to come alive in the night and although I really enjoyed the city during the day I much preferred the atmosphere after dark.

Most of you who read my site will probably already know that I’ve been trying out the new 500px website which is seeming to be a really good alternative to Flickr. I dont doubt that due to some of the more advanced features and because of the community aspect I will continue to use the flickr site and services but I am really enjoying the layout, style and UI behind 500px which really seems to be designed to maximise the impact of your pictures. I’d strongly reccomend that any photographer sign up and please follow me on there if you do http://500px.com/TuckerPhotography .

I tweeted about the site about a week ago and although on the whole it was greatly received I did receive a lot of comments about the lack of right click disabling on the site which got me thinking about the whole aspect of image theft and preventing this sort of thing and about how important that was to me. I admit I have right click disabled on flickr but for one reason only, I upload my original full size files to flickr and while I don’t mind people looking I wouldn’t like the idea of the full format site images being downloaded and potentially used by anyone. Nothing is however stopping someone from screen capturing the large size image on flickr, thankfully this is only (1024 x 683) a size I can probably live with. The bottom line is that if people really want to steal your images they will disabling right click only slows them down it doesn’t make it impossible and it can sometimes make site navigation more difficult. Flickr have nailed the idea well but more recently I recall visiting a fellow photographers wordpress site where they had enabled a right click disabling plugin, the funniest think was when you clicked and enlarged the images right click was suddenly enabled again so it certainly didn’t stop potential image theft and when on his main site I was trying to right click and open in a new tab his twitter account from a link so I could follow him but I was unable to do this which was met with some frustration. Anyways I have digressed slightly, alot of my followers criticised 500px for their lack of this functionality, everyone has their own ideas on this and their own paranoias however my thoughts are that it is not a major concern of mine. I have recently started to add a small watermark on some of my photographs and I often now only upload 1200 x 800 pixel images obviously retaining the originals incase anyone would like to order prints or licence the shot. the 1200×800 image as far as I’m concerned can be downloaded, reposted whatever, I prefer to be told about this so I can see where my work is being displayed and I enjoy the idea of people reblogging or tweeting or tumbling my photos but the bottom line is this is watermarked and low quality so other than looking at a nice image it is of no threat to any potential income I have from the photographs.

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