Electricity
Slaps his yellow thigh
Looking at his World
Of light and glass

Circuits twitch
In his topaz eyes
Insulators hum
In his platinum mind

Electricity
Pats his coppery stomach
Watching his silvery tentacles
Caress a few billion stony hearts

Plastic smoke swirls
In his metallic innards
Wet blue fire pulses
In his golden nostrils

Electricity
Extends his hollow hands
Enveloping the universal dark
In packets of star flame
Strung out like electric highways

Color management is such a pain! I recently shifted to ProPhoto RGB from Adobe RGB color space and whenever I save files in sRGB the photos come out so flat and dull looking! I don’t know if this is because I’m using a different laptop from my usual one or perhaps I’m doing something wrong. In any case today’s photo looks so much better in the original color space. There is much more detail in the grass at the bottom.

Update (28.06.06): Reading my comment above again makes me wonder how stupid I must have been to write that stuff. Of course, sRGB has a limited gamut and therefore colors will look less saturated in that color space. Either I was drunk when I wrote the above stuff or I must have not been using my brain!

This is a photo from my trip to Vienna in April of this year. This was shot near the Danube insel (island) in the city.

This is similar to a photo I posted some days back, being from the same place, although this one is from a more standard perspective. The colors are not artificial, I just boosted the saturation, tweaked the curves and increased the contrast to obtain the results you see.

I shot this from different angles but in the end liked this one the best. The tilt works in my opinion.

This photo has been digitally manipulated to a great extent. I used a much much warmer white balance and more importantly added a lot of dynamic range to the photo. So in the end this is not about what my camera captured but how I interpreted the scene afterwards.

Here is the huge Hofburg palace in Vienna, sometimes refered to as the mini-Versailles. This photo has undergone extensive post-processing. There wasn’t much dynamic range in the original image and therefore I increased this by quite a bit. It is now as close as possible to the way I had originally visualized it. It is also cropped and perspective corrected.

One of the few night shots here. Shots like this make me wonder why I do not try more night shots!

I got this yesterday. We have been getting beautiful skies here over the past few days but yesterdays’s was the best. Unfortunately, by the time I reached home and set up the camera in my friend’s balcony I missed the best part and only managed to get this.

This is the third and final photo in the contrail series. It is also my favorite among the three.