Mirror || Bled Slovenia
Preparations for this trip started 2 months ago, starting with the locations ill visit, looking for the weather, trying to find accommodation, selling some prints, and much more… After deciding what cities we will visit I needed to find some popular locations and monuments that depict these regions in the best possible way. The first stop was in this small alpine town called Bled, located close to the small glacial lake is a very popular locations for visitors, besides all this mentioned this town is popular because of the small island found in the middle of the lake.
This is the frontal view of the island and it looks great together with the mountain range in the background… I shot this image early in the morning (around 6am), while being disappointed by the cloudy and dark weather I was shooting, I just paused and waited there for maybe 20 minutes and thinking of how this shot would look like if I had a better sky and that’s when the light rain began. I was extremely excited knowing that the sky might clear out a bit and I just removed the camera from the tripod and waited for the weather to get better… After a while the colors began to show, and I did start shooting immediately, not living any space to miss a beautiful moment, and I guess that moment is now in front of you. This here is the best light I could shoot that morning, and I am really happy with the image.
Speaking of the image itself, I did shoot 5 shots starting with -2 ev up to +2ev, then I manually blended each shot in PS and with the help of various methods I did achieve to get detail from every part of the image and enhance the color showing how I saw it exactly that day. With just a touch of Viveza2 and Color Efex Pro4 I managed to further enrich this image to please my perception of this beautiful location. With the help of Topaz DeNoise I was able to remove some noise from the darkest part of the image and giving me a better result.
