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Romantic medieval castle Trakoscan on frozen lake

Romantic medieval castle Trakoscan on frozen lake
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18 Comments | Report
Gayde
 
Gayde March 01, 2014
Excellent ! :)
gondmagdi Premium
 
gondmagdi April 25, 2014
wowwwwww, wonderful capture !
Remraf
 
Remraf April 03, 2015
Great shot!
AlanJakarta
 
AlanJakarta April 03, 2015
Beautiful. Congratulations on being Featured.
iceman2
 
iceman2 April 03, 2015
Excellent lighting in this beautiful capture!Congrats
chuckrickman
 
chuckrickman April 03, 2015
Fabulous! Congrats on being featured.
Wayne2photos
 
Wayne2photos April 03, 2015
Beautiful! Congrats!
yourlily
 
yourlily April 03, 2015
Simply Superb.

Congrats.
zarkopiljak
 
zarkopiljak April 03, 2015
Tx to all
bleonard
 
bleonard April 03, 2015
Congratulations, this is a stunning image.
JAStandring
 
JAStandring April 03, 2015
Has the Wow Factor!
ranjithtramachandran
 
ranjithtramachandran April 03, 2015
Great work....
kanizkhan
 
kanizkhan April 07, 2015
Mesmerizing
Vitta
 
Vitta April 09, 2015
Amazing capture!!!
redwriter Platinum
 
redwriter July 23, 2015
Beautiful image. Nice work. - Jake
DavyQuo Platinum
 
DavyQuo September 13, 2015
simply amazing ... great capture
MiroslavKral
 
MiroslavKral December 03, 2017
Trakoš?an is always beautiful but this one is very different from standard images of it. Zasluženo izabrana ... ?estitam.
zarkopiljak
zarkopiljak December 03, 2017
tx mkral
lulu2
 
lulu2 October 28, 2021
Wow awesome,looks magical,great capture
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Behind The Lens

Location

This is a Trakoscan castle. Beautiful romantic castle on hill above small lake in northwestern part of Croatia. Castle Trakoš?an's cultural heritage, and is protected as a historical entity, which consists of the castle, the building next to the castle, park and forest park with a lake.

Time

it was about 13:00

Lighting

It was regular sunny day :-)

Equipment

Canon 7D, Canon 17-40/4L, Manfrotto tripod

Inspiration

It was nice sunny day, and that night a lot of new fresh snow. Trakoscan is near my hometown and that day my wife and me decided to make a short trip to get a fresh air. We were first visitors on the lake below the castle and scene was fantastic

Editing

Yes , it was lot of postprocessing. I love to experiment with different filters in PS. i have some mood in my mind and try to reach this mood on photo. Combination of filters, dodge, burn and other usual techniques i got this picture.

In my camera bag

Canon 6D, Canon 17-40/4L,Sigma 50/1,4 Art, Sigma 24-35/2.0, Sigma70-200/2,8 and Manfrotto tripod and head, CPL, GND and ND1000 filter

Feedback

don't be lazy if weather conditions are not so good. Usualy best pictures a made where early in th emorning or after some long walk to location:-)

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