Lets do another one right away. From the same evening, from the same Skypart Tower. Just taken a bit earlier.
The whole day was very cloudy and very humid in Bratislava, and only right before the sunset the sky started to clear. But the air did not clear completely, which resulted in this hazy view. Still made for a nice view. I especially like how the sun brings colour into the surrounding sky.
This is a two shot panorama, combined and edited in Photoshop.
I have not posted a photo in a while, so lets do one today. I was back on top of one of the Skypark Towers in Bratislava recently, and I took few photos. You can see in the back, that the whole area is mostly a construction site, as there are multiple projects underway there, and more towers will be build.
I really wanted a shot where I could get the whole neighbouring towers in one shot, and include a part of the ground in front of them. That was nor really that easy, as the railing was quite far from the edge. I tried with the tilt-shift 17mm lens, but it was not wide enough. In the end, I used the 12mm Laowa lens, and I got what I wanted. Funny that even I could not see the ground from where I was standing, but the lens did.
This is a blend of 4 exposures, done in Photoshop.
The weather has been really nice recently in Bratislava so today I decided to go out a bit to take a few photos. But as it is really sunny, I decided to visit the Botanical Garden here. It’s really nice place to be able to relax a bit and get away from the city. It’s also great if you need to take some photos with a nice nature background, like family portraits and such. I did some in the past, and some have been also shared on the blog (for instance here, or here).
A few years back I used to post a selection of photos showcasing colors of spring from there every year, but that was not possible during the last quarantine years, and this year I missed the blooming season a bit due to the bad weather. But let’s catch up a bit today :)
On the side, a little behind the camera shot, that I shared earlier today on Twitter. I’m trying to post there more regularly now, so feel free to follow me there.
And here are a few photos I took today. I went with shallower DOF here, to give them this soft look. All taken handheld with the Canon 70-200 F2.8 lens.
I decided to share them all in a higher resolution (2560px tall or wide) and without a watermark, so if any of you would like to use them as phone/tablet wallpapers, you can easily do so.
Recently I posted a few different photos of the Sky Part towers in Bratislava, so how about today a picture was taken from the top of one of them. This photo is not that recent, so you can still be missing the 4th tower in the background. Either way, it makes for an interesting view. I actually wanted to take the photo a bit later, during the blue hour, but it became so windy up there that day, that I could not hold the camera steady enough. The wind would move the whole tripod around; if I were not holding it, it would blow it away.
Still, this photo is a vertorama, from two shots. Each shot blended from three exposures. Edited in Photoshop. I used the 17mm tilt-shift lens here, and if you don’t know what kind of lens it is, or how it’s used, check out my guide here.
It’s been over two years now since I switched to a MacBook. MacBook M1 Pro to be exact. I will write about the switch more someday, but just a bit today. The whole MacBook is just so strange. It’s either fast or pitifully slow. You would not believe how often I see the spinning ball cursor. Just saving a big enough file in Photoshop can make the whole system unresponsive.
And why is the SSD so slow? Saving a 1gb PSD taking a few minutes? Just why. And there is nothing else on the laptop, it’s just a Photoshop machine. Strange. I love how quiet it is and how it’s always on, but sometimes it’s just a pain. Maybe with 32 GB RAM, it would be better. But 16GB looks to be just not enough for Photoshop.
And for today’s photo, a bit different view of the Sky Park towers in Bratislava. You can almost see all 4 in this one. The 4th is hiding behind the middle one here. I thought of moving the camera a bit to include it more, but it’s still a construction site, so it would break the feel of the photo a bit.
Btw. the 5th one, would be on the right side here, probably not that far in the future, as there is already a big hole in the ground there. But it will be a bit different, as these four are private residences and the 5th one will be an office building.
I quite like what they are building here, as this whole area used to be industrial, if I remember correctly, there was a demolished factory here beforehand. So it was mostly ugly and empty before. You would have no reason to go there at all.
I also shared a photo on Twitter while I was taking this one, so you can see it here on the side. This was taken with the 12mm Laowa lens. It was blended from 4 photos. I had to take two bracket series here, as some people walked in front of my camera and I had to use the other set to remove them from the final photo.
