Hide and seek

Was feeling a little more artistic yesterday and this is the result :). There is something about minimalism B&W photos, which I really like, but usually can’t create a nice one. Maybe this time :)

This photo was taken early in the morning from one of the bridges in Prague. I went out trying to take few shots of the sunrise, and a very heavy fog came over the city. You couldn’t really see anything :)

No HDR here. I took three shots, but what I did was, that I took the overexposed photo, converted it to B&W using Silver effects and than played a little with curves in Photoshop.

Single photo, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 18-200mm lens, from a tripod.

Water and Yellow penguins

It’s quite hard to take this photo :). Not because it’s hard to get here, it’s not. It’s because right to the right, you have a great view of the Prague castle, which looks just amazing. So you just have to pull yourself away to take a photo in a different direction :)

I did very little post-processing on this one, as I really liked the colors :). Photos were combined using Photomatix and the I corrected the white building from one of the lighter shots.

HDR from 6 shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 18-200mm lens, from a tripod

Church of St. Francis of Assisi

What a beautiful church this is. This is the Church of St. Francis of Assisi (kostel sv. Františka z Assisi) in Prague, the one right next to the Karl’s Bridge.

And this is the only photo I took there. But what happened was, that I went in, quickly put down my tripod, took the shot and immediately after that I was asked to stop, as photography was not allowed there :) This was a little strange, as there were 4 more people with cameras, all taking photos and I was the only one they asked to stop. Looks like I was looking too professional with the tripod :)

Either way, I think the photo came out really good and I’m happy with it.

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.

Streets of gold

This was my second visit to Prague this year, and for the second time, I had no nice clouds the whole weekend. Of course the booth days, when I was traveling, they were just stunning :) So I tried my best to work around it, taking as many photos as possible around sunset. This one is from the top of the Old Town hall tower right after the sun went down.

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod

Portal

I think to most of the people who ever visited Prague, this is a very well known place :) For everyone else, this is the elevator and stairs in the Old Town Hall Tower (the one with the astronomical clock on it :) ) It’s really great for HDR photos, and nobody minds if you use a tripod in there :)

HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.