I somehow almost never shoot during the day. All my recent photos are early morning or sunset/late evening shots. The colors are just so much better, but also the freedom, not having to deal with many people in your photos, is great. So same here, taken around 6 in the morning, by the Bojnice castle. Of course I had the whole area to myself :)
This is a manual blend from 6 shots.
This look really looks familiar to me. The bird looks at me exactly as people do, when I’m taking their photos. Like it was saying “Why are you taking a photo of me?”. Doesn’t it? :)
Single RAW photo, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop. Taken in Bojnice Zoo in Slovakia.
So tomorrow I’m off to another trip. This time I will spend the week taking photo of Paris. So a week from now, you can await many new Paris photos on this blog.
I have so many photos with blue skies, so I wanted something a little different here. So I used a technique I usually don’t use that much, and that is using different white balance for different parts of the photo. So here I used the two darkest exposures for the sky, with a warmer color balance and a little purple tint and then combined them with three colder exposures for the monument. I think it worked out quite nicely :)
This is a manual blend from 5 shots, taken very early in the morning at the Hero’s square in Budapest, Hungary.
Usually when I get somewhere at 5 am to shoot, the place is completely empty. I like it that way, as I can get photos with no people in them. But the Wenceslas Square was not one of those places. Despite the very early hour and a very ugly weather, the place was still busy. But I think I was the only one who got up so early, everyone else was still up from the day before :)
This is a panorama from 2 shots, each shot blended from 5 exposures.
I wonder how it must have been, to live in a something like this. But probably very cold. Heating something like this, where it is mostly build of stone, must have been a nightmare :) But the area and the view is great. Like everything, it has it pros and cons.
This is a manual blend from 5 shots, taken in Bojnice, Slovakia.
