I really hope that you are able to see the same color on this one as I do on my screen. The water here is completely golden. The color was a result of very low clouds and all the yellow light around the water. It really looked interesting.
This is a manual blend from 5 exposures.
I haven’t been out shooting photos in Bratislava for a long time, so when it stopped raining today, I thought it would maybe make for a nice sunset. But not really. But during the blue hours, the clouds above the city were so low, that they completely reflected all the yellow city lights. The whole scene got a completely yellow/reddish glow over it.
This is a manual blend from 6 shots. I took a -3EV for the castle here.
Today I have for you another photo process post. This photo of the Bojnice castle is one of the most popular photos I ever posted, so I think the way I edited it would be interesting to you. So to get to this final image:
I used luminance mask to combine the shots. To be exact I did the following steps (layers numbered from bottom up)
1. original 0EV exposure
2-3. -1EV and -2EV exposure to darken the sky and other bright spots
4-5. +1EV and +2EV exposure to brighten the foreground
6. -1EV exposure once more to recovel some lost contrast from the blending
7. added contrast to basic midtones
8. added detail using high pass layer
9. darkened and added contrast to the brighterst parts of the image
10. added more local contrast using the Color efex Tonal contrst preset
11. added more contrst using the Color Efex Pro contrast preset
12. removed noise in the foreground elements
13-14. added glow using a blured layer
15. additional brightening for dark areas
To see the original 0EV exposure, please continue to the full post
I haven’t taken many new photos recently. The very hot weather just makes me tired and lazy. I think that’s probably same for most people. But for the next two days I’m taking photos in Austria, so hopefully I get nice weather and some good locations. If all goes right, there will be some new photos from there later this week. But for now, one from last year, from the Kuchajda lake in Bratislava
This is a manual blend from 5 shots.
I was thinking of what I haven’t yet taken photos in Bratislava and what is close to my flat (I really was not in the mood for a longer bus ride with the 30+ degree weather here). So I chose for my destination the Polus City center. You have seen few photos of it from the backside, as there is the Kuchajda lake, but this time, it’s the main entrance.
This is a manual blend from 5 shots.
