Today I have for you two photos. Better said, a photo and it’s variant. While I was editing this cityscape shot from Bratislava, it reminded me of this reflection tutorial by Jimmy McIntire http://www.throughstrangelenses.com/2013/06/23/cityscape-photoshop-tutorial/ so I just tried out how it looked like. And here is the photo and also the fake reflection variant. It does not even look that bad :)

This is a manual blend from 7 photos.
Light reflection

This is an edit of the above photo in Photoshop.
Reflection

A little more colorful photo today. I went with more saturation and glow for this one, to get the feel I wanted. But it depends a lot on the screen you are viewing the photo on. It looks completely different on my screen, my tablet or my phone (I have to say, the amoled on my phone looks just incredible :)). And it also looks different based on the light conditions and on what you were looking before on (if you look on something saturated before and then look at it, it will look really washed out :)). So having the exact color I want is really not that simple, or even possible.

This is a manual blend form 3 shots, taken next to the Bojnice castle in Bojnice.
Colorful spring morning

I was just watching the anime series Death note (if you don’t know it, I really suggest checking it out :)) while I was going through my photos and trying to decide what to post today. And I came across this one, and it caught my eye. It’s a more random photo, I just took because I found the mask interesting. I took it by the Bojnice castle, as they had the ghost festival there when I was visiting. You could say this mask is not scary, but I would not want to meet someone wearing while taking photo late at night :)

This is a single photo edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Death mask

Something for those who don’t have a good camera, but still want to experiment with HDR. You can download the original raw files for this photo from here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xeaj3in493k5kmu/FysTgnR8XW and try to edit them. Feel free to share you results on my Facebook page.

No contest this time, this time it’s just for the fun of post-processing.

Feel free to share you results on your facebook/flickr/blog, but please don’t forget to give me credit for the photo and link back here. And of course, please don’t use this photo for any commercial purpose (I’m still the author )

Have fun
Brackets

Comparing to my other photos, this one is not so colorful. But why should every photo be very colorful. When the light is boring, the colors look boring. But as like how the composition and overall sharpness of this photo worked out, I still like it :) Overall photos like this are quite hard to blend. You have a very high difference between the darkest and lightest areas and the transition is very sharp. You have to be very careful so there are no artifacts there, so it all looks natural.

This is a manual blend from 5 shots. Photo taken on the SNP bridge in Bratislava.
Crossing the bridge

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