Vienna really looks flat from up high. There are really few tall buildings and even those are away from the center. I took this shot right before the sunset, as this one huge cloud formed right above the city. It somehow reminds me of the movie Independence day, just waiting for an alien ship pooping out from it :)

This is a panorama from two exposures, merged in Lightroom, edited in Photoshop.

Technique: Photoshop Edit, Number of exposures: 2, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 70-200mm F2.8 IS II, Focal length: 70mm, Aperture: 11, Middle exposure time: 1/25s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.278003, 16.347291

I wanted to visit this castle for a longer time, but newer gotten to it until this weekend. The weather was surprisingly sunny, but it’s still this winter sun, that just does not give enough warmth to the scene. Still it’s a great looking castle, and as soon as I get a tilt-shift lens, so I can get a shot without a distortion, I will definitively go back for more :)

Btw. for those of you who are waiting for the winner announcement of the photo editing contest, please have a little more patience. The people choice winner has already been selected (you can check the album to see who has the most likes), but the jury selection is not decided yet, due to busy schedules of the judges. But I presume I will announce the winners in a day or two.

This is mostly a single exposure, with few spots brightened from a second one. Edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Technique: Photoshop Edit, Number of exposures: 2, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 16mm, Aperture: 14, Middle exposure time: 1/60s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.378978, 16.308233

Today, I stopped by the lighthouse by the Neusidlresee in Austria for a hour, and while it was raining some of the time, I managed to snap a few shots. And as it’s off season right now, I was lucky to be there alone most of the time, so nobody to remove from the photos. It really does save one a lot of work :)

This is a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Technique: Photoshop Edit, Number of exposures: 1, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 31mm, Aperture: 11, Middle exposure time: 30s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 47.860540, 16.827174

I took a little trip to Vienna today, and one of the spots I visited was also the Leopoldsberg hill above it. So this is one of the photos I took from there. It really gives a great look of the Danube and all the bridges on it. It’s quite far away form the city, so even this view was taken at around 200mm. I ended up going with a panorama here, as the sky was a bit boring, and so did the foreground. I was also quite pleased how sharp the photo still was even in quite windy conditions. I was probably just lucky :)

So as mentioned, this is a two shots panorama, no HDR here, I used Lightroom to merge the two exposures into a panorama, and then I finished the photo in Photoshop.

Technique: Photoshop Edit, Number of exposures: 2, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 70-200mm F2.8 IS II, Focal length: 150mm, Aperture: 8, Middle exposure time: 8s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.278003, 16.347291

It’s really crazy how different the mountains look below and above the clouds. And it was even crazier to go up these mountains. As this is from the Grossglockner Alpine road, it was a car trip. And one could perfectly see the moment one got above the clouds, as it was a bit more cloudy than in this photo, and in few seconds the view changed from a great valley into a dense white wall covering everything :)

This is mostly a single exposure edited in Photoshop, with few spots brightened up from a second exposure.

Technique: Photoshop Edit, Number of exposures: 2, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 16mm, Aperture: 14, Middle exposure time: 1/125s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 47.121260, 12.820338