I can’t wait for this weekend. I will do nothing, absolutely nothing for the whole two days. I really need to catch up on my sleep and rest :) Ok, maybe I do some photo editing, but not too much :)

And this is a photo from the Kuchajda lake. It’s a HDR from 5 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine.

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So I finally started catching up to the real world, and almost finished all photos from the Sendusal Dance festival in Bratislava, which was during this weekend. I of course had no time to edit my regular photos, but since I edited a lot form the festival, how about I share few of those :)

So my crazy weekend is over, 4 night of taking photos at parties and also some during the day :) Haven’t slept much, but I need to quickly get back to my normal routine, so how about to start today. So as always, a new process post today for you.

Let’s first look at the final photo, and the starting exposure.

Finished photo

Original exposure

As always I loaded all the exposures into Lightroom, where I corrected the horizon, white balance and also chromatic aberrations. From there I exported all the files and loaded them in Oloneo Photoengine. I changes the strength and the contrast to get a blend I wanted and continued in Photoshop.

All exposures

Lightroom twaks

I loaded all the exposures in Photoshop and did the following edits (layers numbered from bottom up):
1. Oloneo Photoengine result
2. I created a second result in Oloneo Photoengine, a brighter one. Here I used a lights luminosity mask to brighten all the white parts of the water.
3. Original exposure, to correct the moving people on the bridge
4. Brushed out the railing as it didn’t fit the composition I wanted.
5. Color Effex polarization, to bring more blue into the sky
6. Color Effex Pro contrast to get more detail
7. I added more overall saturation here, as I felt there is not that much color in the photos
8. Nik Dfine to remove noise
9. Brightened the bottom right corner, as it looked too dark
10. Little bit of overall contrast

Oloneo Photoengine

Photoshop

And that’s all what I did with this photo :)

Those of you who follow me on my personal FB profile, already seen a ton of new photos from the Bratislava Sensual dance festival, and I continue to be crazy busy. So today, again nothing new here, but I’m reposting one of my older videos, who some of you may have not seen yet :)