I took this very colorful photo while I was in Madrid earlier this year. I took this directly from the balcony of my hotel room, during a sunrise. It’s really great how late the sunrise in Spain is, as they use the same time as central Europe, but are much more further to the west :)
This is the view from my hotel room, from my trip to Madrid earlier this year. I actually wrote to the hotel before I arrived, asking them for a room with a nice view of the street. And this is what I got. You can say I was satisfied :) The street was quite busy the whole day, but as I used to live on the busiest intersection in Bratislava before, I didn’t mind.
One thing I loved about Spain, is that there is no time change compared to Slovakia. So when I was there, the sunset was around 8 o’clock. This is just great if you are a photographer. Not that I went out to take photo, as I was so tired from visiting all the places there, but still nice to wake up to it :)
Another new page on my blog. This time it’s my Top 5 photography spots in Prague. Slowly I’m adding more and more content to this blog, so I hope you all find it useful :)
This is the view you get when you go up onto the tower of the Almudena cathedral in Madrid and look towards the Royal palace. The day I took this was actually quite nice, just when I was on the tower it became quite windy and clouds covered most of the sky. When it’s windy it’s actually much simpler to take HDR photos of architecture than of nature, as they are much more resistant to movement.
HDR tutorial part 2I went to sleep really late last night, but the second part of my HDR tutorial is online. This time the theme is preparing your photos in Lightroom and combining them in Photomatix. You can acess the tutorial either from the side menu, or directly here: Using Photomatix Pro
Hope the tutorial is helpful and all feedback and questions are very welcome.
The next part will be about correcting the most common HDR processing problem with the help of Photoshop. But that will be sometime later.
As you can see, my luck for days without any clouds stayed with me also in Madrid. For a moment I was thinking of cropping the sky, but I could get myself to remove even the smallest part of that beautiful sunset orange.
I like taking similar photos of the same subject at different times of the day. Same with this photo. I already posted a sunset photo, and this one was taken around lunch. The difference in colors is stunning.
