Entries in Slovakia (13)
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Photo of the day: Thursday 30 July 2009
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Wildflowers after the melt, Tatra Mountains Slovakia
Keeping on with the processing of HDR images from my trip to Europe last month and I'm still finding shots that I haven't properly looked at. Over the two months in Europe I shot a total of around 11,000 images and although I have categorised them and they are all in the right place spending enough time to find the gems is difficult.
After the categorisation process and first ranking round on the images I was a little burnt out on these images because it took two days straight. Being burnt out I found that I couldn't be objective enough to see the quality photos that have potential over the ones that are less likely to become a finalised photograph. Now more than two weeks after my return to Alice Springs and the mind numbing task of sorting all the images my eyes are working again.
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Photo of the day: Friday 24 July 2009
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Tatra Mountain Sunrise, Slovakia
One of my favourite photos from my trip that I have processed so far. This was an incredibly cold morning at only 3 degrees but it was one of the only two days where I had clear skies at sunrise so it was easy to get up. This little lake was only about 200m away from where the hut was located so luckily I didn't have to go far for this shot and had time to get a coffee going before I started shooting.
I shot this scene as part of a HDR sequence and although it was going to be a good photo I assumed that the final HDR would a better image than the single frame original. But after all the processing the HDR just couldn't hold up to the processed single photo because the dynamic range of the scene was perfect with nothing over exposed to the point of clipping. In the processing I applied a half stop ND grad filter over the skies and mountains at the rear and would you believe I pulled down the color vibrancy and saturation just a few points.
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