Hotel at the lake

I did mostly panoramas at the Strbske pleso, which I already shared with you, but of course I took also few normal photos. For this one, I focused more on the hotel that is right at the Strbske pleso lake. Again I used a VFFOTO 10stop ND filter, to blur the water. It was windy when I took this one, so there was no reflection, but instead it created this white line, where the water started, which I think works really well here.

This is a single exposure, edited in Lightroom, finished in Photoshop.

Night at the Danube

I start to notice that I don’t know Bratislava as much as I used to. Everywhere I go there are changes I have not seen before. Not a surprise, with how much time I spend outside of the country. Same here, where they changed all the benches and the walkway around the Danube. Of course it was an opportunity for a new compositions and I took it :)

This is a blend of two exposures, edited in Lightroom, finished in Photoshop.

Star trails in the night sky

While at the Traunsee, the sky was just beautiful. So many stars everywhere and very visible. I first tried a composition with the mountains, but as the water was not calm enough, I got no reflection. So instead I tried the view with this little church on the top of the cliff. It was lit from the bottom by the city lights and it was crazy bright compared to the sky, but I was confident I will be able to blend it from multiple exposure. And in the end I was, even if it took more than 3 hours to put this shot together :)

It’s always good to think of photos like this in two parts. The base photo and the star trails you will put over it. For this photo, I took 3 exposures for the base, so I have something to blend the church from. Then I took another 90 exposure for the stars, each one at 30x f2.8 and ISO 800. I did a mistake and should have taken one more base shot for the cliff, but somehow I forgot. So I had a bit more editing due to that.

This made for a quite big Photoshop file, with the PSB size being over 15gb big. I did almost all the editing there, except few small tweaks on the raws in Lightroom.

And here are few details:

The path in Traunkirchen

And here you have the first photo I took yesterday. This was taken in the small town of Traunkirchen, right at the lake Traunsee. There is this little part blocked off by this grass path, which creates a beautifully calm reflection on one side of it. I really liked the contrast between the two sides, so of course I had to create a panorama here. But as the water outside was not that calm, I decided to go with a ND filter to make it a long exposure one.

This is a three shot panorama, taken with the use of the VFFOTO 10 stop ND filter. With it, I pushed the exposure to be 30seconds. Panorama combined in Lightroom, finished in Photoshop.

And here are few details:

Early spring under the Eiffel tower

And for the photo today, another one of my many vertoramas of the Eiffel tower. I’m really glad I took so many, as now, with the glass wall they are building around it, it’s just not the same anymore.

This is a two shot vertorama, with a third shot used to remove few people close to the camera. Combined in Lightroom, finished in Photoshop.