Today I’m leaving for 10 days to UK. And as the recent months I had very few opportunities to take new photos, instead of posting worse ones, I decided to post something different. So for the next 10 days I will show you more from my post-processing. I will post 10 of my photos, how they looked as a Lightroom export, how the editing layers in Photoshop looked and the final photo at the end :) Hope you like this little view into my work.

So here goes the first one, named Entering the Chain bridge.
This is the final photo, open the full post to see the original shot and how it looked in photoshop:

I’m not completely satisfied with this photo. And I think I could edit it more and more, and I still would not like it completely. It was just an ugly day. But it’s a great photo to try out and advance my manual blending skills, as the dynamic range was extreme. You just have to think about it, the whole foreground area had no light source at all. Open the full post to see the original exposure.

This is a scene where HDR really helped a lot. The contrast between the city and the sun behind it was just too big. This was actually taken the day I went shooting with Elia Locardi (if you don’t know ho he is, check out the links page :)). And I don’t know if it was the presence of a great photographer, but the sunset was just perfect. Like it tried to show off :)

Don’t forget to open the full post to see the original exposure of this photo.

Petrzalka is one of the city parts of Bratislava. It’s one of the newer parts, with almost no historical buildings. When I finished this, I was about to crop this photo so the horizon is on the golden mean line, and I was pleasantly surprised when I saw, that it already perfectly aligned to it. Looks like after few years of shooting almost always by the golden ratio, I use it without thinking :) View the full post to see how the photo from the camera looked like

Almost all my photos have a blue sky, so I’m really happy to have something really different :) It was very nice to see the sun, as it was cold on the top of the tower, and at least I could imagine the heat from the sun.

I vent with 11 brackets here, as It was taken while looking directly into the sun, and I wanted the sun in the shot, not just a big overexposed area. I left the sun also quite saturated, as that’s what I see the sun is, a big orange ball. Also I forgot to add a before/after comparison for a longer time, so today there is one :)