Winter sunset over Bratislava

I took this photo already over 1 or 2 years ago, but never posted it. But I’m doing so today. This is the view from the Michaels gate balcony. As it’s a museum, it’s a bit hard to get there during the sunset. Only in winter, when the sunset is so early, it’s still open. And while it is not allowed to take photos inside, they have no problems if you take photos outside on the balcony.

This is a 3 shot blend, done in Photoshop.

Clouds invading Paris – Plotagraph

I spend today evening in Mikulov in Czech republic. And while I got quite a few photo, who know if they are good. I have arrived only recently, and have not had time too look at them. But with how crazy windy it was, I’m not that hopeful. If it worked out, you will see a photo from there tomorrow :)

But for today, here is another Plotagraph I made, this time of this very cloudy view of Paris, taken from the top of the Tour Montparnasse.

(if you use an older web browser, you may only see a static image, if you are on a mobile, please hit the play button to see the Plotagraph in motion)

Golden light in the city

I seem to have a lot of fog in my recent picture :) But it’s that time of year, so what can you do. This one is taken under the SNP bridge (New bridge) in Bratislava. I really like how most of the city is hidden, and you just get this wonderful glow from all the lights.

This is a two exposure blend done in Photoshop. I used a second, darker exposure, to recover the lights on the bridge walkway. I had a lot of problems with color banding here, as there are quite a few soft color transitions. Luckily, this is not the first time I dealt with it and I knew what to do. And you can to, if you check my tutorial Dealing with color banding.

Mountains in the morning

It was very foggy the morning I took this. When we arrived to the hill from which this photo was taken, we could not even see the mountains, and we were really not sure if we are at the right spot. But as the sunrise progressed, the fog subsided, and I got some shots. Still, I had to edit them more as I normally would, as I was forced to push the DeHaze function a lot to get at least some detail.

This is a three shot panorama, combined and edited in Lightroom, finished in Photoshop. You may see in the detail shot, that I did not remove the noise, but that is normal for these types of photos. Especially on photos of trees, there is so much detail, that removing noise will make them look too blurry.

And here are few details:

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I did crop and export few of the Plotagraphs I shared with you on this blog, and you can download them here. They are all 1080x2160px in size, so a 18:9 vertical aspect. They are meant to fit all the new phones with taller screens, but the app should crop them automatically on different ones.

(You may see controls when you hover your mouse over the plotagraph. This is due to the fact that mobile browsers dont auto play them, and for those I need a play button so it can be started.)

Download the Star trails, Podersdorf sunset and Dubai sunset here (use right click/save target as to save the mp4 file).

And the Light over Paris, Autumn reflection and Dubai Traffic here (use right click/save target as to save the mp4 file).