I haven’t taken many new photos recently. The very hot weather just makes me tired and lazy. I think that’s probably same for most people. But for the next two days I’m taking photos in Austria, so hopefully I get nice weather and some good locations. If all goes right, there will be some new photos from there later this week. But for now, one from last year, from the Kuchajda lake in Bratislava

This is a manual blend from 5 shots.

I was thinking of what I haven’t yet taken photos in Bratislava and what is close to my flat (I really was not in the mood for a longer bus ride with the 30+ degree weather here). So I chose for my destination the Polus City center. You have seen few photos of it from the backside, as there is the Kuchajda lake, but this time, it’s the main entrance.

This is a manual blend from 5 shots.

Today I have for you two photos. Better said, a photo and it’s variant. While I was editing this cityscape shot from Bratislava, it reminded me of this reflection tutorial by Jimmy McIntire http://www.throughstrangelenses.com/2013/06/23/cityscape-photoshop-tutorial/ so I just tried out how it looked like. And here is the photo and also the fake reflection variant. It does not even look that bad :)

This is a manual blend from 7 photos.

This is an edit of the above photo in Photoshop.

A little more colorful photo today. I went with more saturation and glow for this one, to get the feel I wanted. But it depends a lot on the screen you are viewing the photo on. It looks completely different on my screen, my tablet or my phone (I have to say, the amoled on my phone looks just incredible :)). And it also looks different based on the light conditions and on what you were looking before on (if you look on something saturated before and then look at it, it will look really washed out :)). So having the exact color I want is really not that simple, or even possible.

This is a manual blend form 3 shots, taken next to the Bojnice castle in Bojnice.

I was just watching the anime series Death note (if you don’t know it, I really suggest checking it out :)) while I was going through my photos and trying to decide what to post today. And I came across this one, and it caught my eye. It’s a more random photo, I just took because I found the mask interesting. I took it by the Bojnice castle, as they had the ghost festival there when I was visiting. You could say this mask is not scary, but I would not want to meet someone wearing while taking photo late at night :)

This is a single photo edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.