Golden light in the city

I seem to have a lot of fog in my recent picture :) But it’s that time of year, so what can you do. This one is taken under the SNP bridge (New bridge) in Bratislava. I really like how most of the city is hidden, and you just get this wonderful glow from all the lights.

This is a two exposure blend done in Photoshop. I used a second, darker exposure, to recover the lights on the bridge walkway. I had a lot of problems with color banding here, as there are quite a few soft color transitions. Luckily, this is not the first time I dealt with it and I knew what to do. And you can to, if you check my tutorial Dealing with color banding.

Mountains in the morning

It was very foggy the morning I took this. When we arrived to the hill from which this photo was taken, we could not even see the mountains, and we were really not sure if we are at the right spot. But as the sunrise progressed, the fog subsided, and I got some shots. Still, I had to edit them more as I normally would, as I was forced to push the DeHaze function a lot to get at least some detail.

This is a three shot panorama, combined and edited in Lightroom, finished in Photoshop. You may see in the detail shot, that I did not remove the noise, but that is normal for these types of photos. Especially on photos of trees, there is so much detail, that removing noise will make them look too blurry.

And here are few details:

The colors of a foggy morning

And we continue with another panorama. This one is another take in the area over the village Lesnica in Eastern Slovakia. The colors of the sky showed up for a few minutes right at the sunrise, and I managed to capture some of them.

This is a two shot panorama, merged and mostly edited in Lighroom, finished in Photoshop.

And here are few details:

The view over Danube

And we come to another panorama :) I took so many of them recently. And I even started writing a short guide on how to take panoramas without the need of a panoramatic head, which I will share with you soon. But not today.

Today I have for you a panorama shot taken from the new Old bridge in Bratislava. This was taken during the White night even, while I was waiting for them to turn on the laser lights on the New bridge. But looks like that they had problems and the lights stayed off. So I at least got a nice panorama shot from it.

This is a 2 shot panorama. I took 5 exposure for each shot and used the darker ones to blend in parts of the castle. It’s just so bright. I used PTgui to create the panorama and finished the photo in Photoshop. If you want to know how to create HDR panoramas, check out the guides I made about it. Here is one for PTgui and here one for AutoPano.

Btw. if you wonder why I share the detail shots. I like it when my photos look good zoomed out, but also at 100%. If a photo does not look good zoomed in, I usually don’t use it. Even if nobody else ever will see it at 100%, I will, and it will always bother me if its not as I want it to be :)

And here are few details:

All Saints’ Day

As every year, this again I went out to take few photos at a nearby cemetery for the All Saint’s day. As the tradition here is to place candles onto graves and also in few other locations, these make for some stunning photos.

So today’s photo is from the Martins cemetery in Bratislava. It is a blend of three exposures, where I used a brighter one to brighten the background a bit and a darker one to soften the bright lights on the statue. I’m also including two more shots, both more of a details of the candles. Both of these are single exposures, edited mostly in Lightroom, finished in Photoshop.

And here are the two extra: