The stunning view

Sometime you just don’t know what looks better, the landscape or clouds. It rained few hour before, so I had high hopes for the sunset. It wasn’t very colorful, but still a stunning sunset.

I went with 7 brackets for this one, as that’s my usual. But 5 would have been quite enough. The light was quite flat, not many shadows here. Also the sky is from one of the original shots, just post-processed in Photoshop.

Blue fireworks

I tried to get a nice reflection in this one, but the river was just not calm enough. so I got at least some colors reflected. I was also planing to add something different today, but just had no time to edit.

Fire to the rain

I love shooting fireworks. It’s a little hit and miss all the time, as there are not so many opportunities, when to take photos of them. These time they were directly in the middle of the city, over Danube. So I found my self a spot, so I have the castle and them in one photo. And I think it worked out nicely.

Of course this is a HDR from a single RAW file. Also I used Oloneo HDR instead of Photomatix, as it gives me better results with photos, where there is a lot of black space.

The yellow evening

The light on this street in Prague create such a yellow light. And with the overcast sky, everything was just yellow. At first I removed the color cast, did color correction so the sky was more blue, and the buildings more grey. But than I didn’t liked it anymore. This was for a simple reason. When I was there everything was yellow. If you shine a yellow light on a white wall, it will look yellow, so why should it be white in a photo?

When they turn on the lights

Each time when I take sunset shots, I wait for this moment. The one when they turn on the light, but there is still enough light that the photo is still a bright one.