This look really looks familiar to me. The bird looks at me exactly as people do, when I’m taking their photos. Like it was saying “Why are you taking a photo of me?”. Doesn’t it? :)

Single RAW photo, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop. Taken in Bojnice Zoo in Slovakia.

Destination Paris

So tomorrow I’m off to another trip. This time I will spend the week taking photo of Paris. So a week from now, you can await many new Paris photos on this blog.

Morning Sun

I have so many photos with blue skies, so I wanted something a little different here. So I used a technique I usually don’t use that much, and that is using different white balance for different parts of the photo. So here I used the two darkest exposures for the sky, with a warmer color balance and a little purple tint and then combined them with three colder exposures for the monument. I think it worked out quite nicely :)

This is a manual blend from 5 shots, taken very early in the morning at the Hero’s square in Budapest, Hungary.

Usually when I get somewhere at 5 am to shoot, the place is completely empty. I like it that way, as I can get photos with no people in them. But the Wenceslas Square was not one of those places. Despite the very early hour and a very ugly weather, the place was still busy. But I think I was the only one who got up so early, everyone else was still up from the day before :)

This is a panorama from 2 shots, each shot blended from 5 exposures.

I wonder how it must have been, to live in a something like this. But probably very cold. Heating something like this, where it is mostly build of stone, must have been a nightmare :) But the area and the view is great. Like everything, it has it pros and cons.

This is a manual blend from 5 shots, taken in Bojnice, Slovakia.

And again my favorite photo subject, bridges. I could have spend here weeks, just taking photos. The Forth rail bridge is so massive and so stunning. The Forth road bridge is also very nice, but just not as majestic as the rail one. I will really have to revisit this place one day :)

This is a manual blend from 5 shots.