Love locks in Amsterdam

Let’s do a bit simpler photo today. So no panorama, no HDR, just a single exposure (that I of course split into two and blend them back together :)). These are some love locks I found on one of the side streets in Amsterdam. I was taking a photo of the reflection in the background, and I thought it would look nice as a foreground element.

I’m wondering. Is the trend to put these love locks on every bridge, and sometimes even statues and other monuments, still alive, or it’s gone? Have not seen anyone doing it in a very long time.

Sunset over Zaanse Schans

I don’t really have any new photos right now, so let’s keep going with more from my archives. There are still many that I haven’t posted before. Today, let’s stop in Zaanse Schans near Amsterdam, for a windmill photo. As I suggest in my Top photography spots in Amsterdam list, this is the spot you have to go to get a nice windmill shot when you are there.

This is a single exposure, broken into two and blended back together in Photoshop.

Rainy morning at the Rijksmuseum

Today I have for you another photo from my huge photo archive. This one is from one very early rainy morning in Amsterdam. Something like we had today in Bratislava. But as you can clearly see from all the tulips, this was not taken in Autumn, but in the early Spring. That’s why there are also no people in this photo. I saw almost no one around so early in the morning.

This is a blend from 5 exposures, done in Photoshop. This is the fountain behind the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Flowers in Keukenhof

To post something different than a landscape photo again, how about few flowers. I still had some from the Keukenhof park near Amsterdam that I had not posted before, so here they are today.

I do recoment a visit to Keukenhof when you are in Amsterdam, but of course only in the months it’s open. That would be from from the end of March to the end of May. Check out my Top photography spots in Amsterdam for all my recomendations there.

Colorful evening in Amsterdam

Let’s do a photo from Amsterdam today. This is actually from one of my favorite spots there. You can get my whole list of spots in Amsterdam here, and while this exact one is not on the list, it’s really close to spot number 2. Just follow the canal and you will find it. The building on the corner is a bar, and it’s really hard to miss it.

To edit this photo, I split the RAW file into three and edited one for the highlights and one for the shadows. Then I blended them all together in Photoshop.

And here is also a comparison to the original RAW file. As you can see, I mostly kept the sky and brightened everything else.