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

The hill around Danube are just filled with castles. Most of them are ruins, but they are all cared for, and all provide great vantage points for photos of the area. And this is one is from the ruin above Spitz. To be exact, this is the Hintenhaus ruin.

Btw. I hope you are all busy voting in the Photo editing contest here :)

This is mostly a single exposure, with a second one only used to brighten few shadows. 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: 48.358490, 15.406879

Some photos are about the composition, some are about the subject, and some are just about the colors. And I really like how simple this one is. It’s even hard to take a photo like this. One would just like to stand there and enjoy the beauty :)

This is a single exposure, on which I did only few edits in Lightroom, and a bit in Photoshop. Photo taken at the Neusidlersee in Austria.

To break a little from the night and fog shots, here is one I took in the middle of last years summer. This was taken in the vineyards above the city Spitz. It’s a really beautiful area, and whats even nicer is that is completely accessible, without any fences.

These were not really my favorite lighting conditions. When the sun is so high up, and there are just no clouds, the light is just too harsh for it to be nice. But when you have nothing else for days and days, you have to take what you got :) 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: 35mm, Aperture: 16, Middle exposure time: 1/13s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.369212, 15.416969