A bench with a beautiful view over Hainburg

This is one of my favorite spots around Bratislava. Hainburg is not far away, and one can get to the spot with a car. The sunset was quite nice yesterday, as it rained the day before, and I thought I maybe get some nice photos from there.

For this I had to take quite a few brackets. 5 for the shot and another 5 with the sun covered, so I can remove the lens flares. In the end I used 5 exposures. One as the bas, one for the sky, one for the foreground and two to remove lens flares. All manually blended in Photoshop.

You can see a before after comparison with the base exposure on the side. There you can quite clearly see, how hight the contrast between the sun and foreground is.

Moon over Dubai Marina

Still crazy tired today, just can’t catch up on sleep. So for today, one of the photos I already had ready. This is view of the Dubai Marina in Dubai, with a moon still quite low in the sky.

This is a blend of two exposures, created in Photoshop.

Ars Electronica in Linz

And the photo today is also of the Ars Electronica, during the blue hour. The museum (same as other buildings in the city) light up with bright colorful neon light in the evening. It makes for a nice view, but it’s a bit hard to capture them properly with a camera sensor.

This is a blend of three exposures, done in Photoshop.

Golden sky at the Eiffel tower

The photo for today, is one from my archives, taken during one of my visits to Paris. I edited it only few days ago. I think I tried it once before, but I did not like the result. But as the skill advance, so one can get more from photos, one would once find unusable :)

So if you are curious, I’m again including a before/after comparison of this photo. You can see as it was right from the camera, and how it compares to my editing result.

For this photo, I used a single exposure, edited in Photoshop.

Vineyards over Spitz in Austria

And since I am at the topic of Austria, here is a shot I took there about two years ago. This is taken from the vineyards, above the small city of Spitz. It’s a really nice area. You can drive with your car almost right up to this point, and the vineyards are not closed off. So you can go in and take as many photos as you want :)

This was during a very sunny day, which is not the best for photos, but I needed some daytime shots from here, so I took them. I returned here for the sunset, but with no clouds, it was nothing special. I’m again including a before/after screenshots, for those who are curious. If I remember to do so, I will maybe share that with more posts from now on :)

This is a blend of two exposures. A darker one for the base and a brighter one to open up some of the shadows. Edited in Photoshop.