When I took this shot, I really like the formation the clouds took. It really reminded me, as if I was looking at a huge spider from above, with all the legs. What do you think? Does it look like one? :)
This is a HDR from 4 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop. Taken at the Kuchajda lake in Bratislava
I had one more photo of the lovely Alexandra ready, and since I still feel sick today, and not in the mood for any editing, that is what I’m posting :)
But so the post today is not just so short, I’m including a screenshot from Lightroom, of how this photo looked straight out of the camera. I did most of the edits directly in Lightroom, like adding exposure, opening up the shadows, changing the white balance to get a warmer tone and similar. I left for Photoshop only the more specific tweaks, like making the eyes brighter, sharpening and adding a vignette.
As every All saint’s day, I’m posting a new photo from a nearby cemetery today. The tradition to light candles during this day, just creates such a stunning scene. But I took only few photos this year, as I was there only for a short while. I still sick and not feeling very well, and I have the feeling I will pay for going out into the cold.
This is a HDR from 4 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop.
We have quite a lovely autumn for the last few days, and I somehow missed more autumn color on the blog. And since I also have a Canon 90mm tilt shift lens borrowed right now, with which I wanted to play around more, I though I combine this, by taking some crazy bokeh shots with autumn color.
The 90mm tilt shift is a very nice lens, just not so great for landscapes. The focal length is just to much. But it’s very nice to get detail with a very small DOF and even with blured parts of the image, if one takes advantage of the tilt. So instead of doing landscapes, I visited the Botanical garden here in Bratislava, and took few shots. All are single exposures, edited in Lightroom. Btw. would these make nice phone backgrounds?
And if you don’t know how a 90mm tilt shift lens looks like, I’m including a photo of the camera :) It does not have auto-focus, so it’s quite a lot of fun when taking photos with it handheld.
Some of you maybe noticed that for the last few hours, the blog was not accessible. I’m very sorry for that, and I still don’t know what happened, but it’s all back up now, and hopefully it stays that way.
Some of you maybe also noticed, that there have been few changes to the look of the blog recently. As I mentioned few times before, I keep updating it almost constantly, and trying to find the best look for it. So this time, I removed few not needed decorative elements and background, to make it more bright and modern. I hope you will like the change :)
When I posted a photo of Alexandra some time ago, I mentioned, that I still have few more that I want to share with you. And here is another one. It’s very strange for me to use a flash in my photos. You almost never use one for landscapes. For this photo, I went mostly with natural light, but I also used a weaker fill in flash, with a small diffuser on it, so I avoid unwanted shadows.
This is a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.
