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Long time no see... My computer problem and lack of time because of school and all those tests made impossible to write posts and stuff... But if I wasn't able to write that doesn't mean that nothing happened So, if you checked my gallery recently (last 2 dayz) you've probably seen that I uploaded picz from school trip to Firenze (or Florence, Florentia and Fiorenza...).
It was awesome if we despite extremely shitty weather We were there to see gazillion number of churches and all this roman, goth, renaissance art... Dude, things are too crowded to pick one and decide which is THE one
If I could gather all cameras which were on Palazzo Vecchio when we were there with one huge magnet... I would have more cameras than Canon makes them in a week
Ok, enough of bs, let pictures do the talking









More in gallery.

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Last weekend we went to see a lake which shows up and disappears after longer periods of heavy raining. That's why it's called periodic lake








More pics in gallery!

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Last weekend me and my friend Nik went biking around nearest hills and dales.
On pic is Nik

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What's up?

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If you are occupied with photography, you have probably found yourself in situation like this:
One day I went out to take some pictures. It was wintry day. And somehow you wanted to take a snap of panorama. Everything was foggy and colors were greyish and full of blue haze... Grrrrrrr

The same thing happened to me today, so I decided to make a little tuturial how to make pictures more vivid
Notice: In this post I intentionally exaggerated with making pics (too) contrasty and colorful. And I do not guarantee improving of your photographic skills by obeying this tutorial
True photograph depends and on the photographer and the camera after all

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Overlay
Duplicate the layer -> set the blending mode of upper layer to overlay -> adjust layer opacity to 50%

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Curves
Open Curves [Ctrl + M] and try to find perfect result. I suggest something like that.

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B&W
Open Gradient map (Image -> Adjustments -> Gradient Map) and set gradient from black on left to white on right.

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Levels (this is probably best and inelegant way to do it)
Open Levels [Ctrl + L] and calibrate adjust each color channel individually. Move both sliders so that you omit low endings on each side. Something like this.

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So, I hope that you'll find it useful
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