Making mistakes
It’s funny, that even after years of taking photos, and knowing exactly what I have to use when, I still do mistakes. And one of course does not think about that until one gets home and loads photos into Lightroom. Let’s take today’s photo for example. I knew I wanted to use f22 to get a bigger sun-star. I know I wanted a sharp photo. But I forgot that at f22 I get refractions, and I should do also a shot at around f11 to f16, so I can blend them together. And I forgot about that.
Is the photo good? I think so (I would not share it otherwise :)). Can it be better? Definitively. Even if only I see the difference, that is enough. And I do see it.
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.
