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| Sparkly gold and silver fireworks note, you can click on any of the pictures to see a bigger version |
For us, we will try to make more amazing vegan food and take more great pictures. And as always, keep your comments and recipes coming!
We decided to spend New Year’s in Vienna, where we stayed with Kristin, a high school friend of Kelly’s. We had an amazing time together, although the time passed by very quickly.
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| Fancy foto editing - 1970's era glamour shot :) |
Basically, we stayed inside the flat almost all day long, as it was freezing cold outside. We had temperatures down to -10 degrees Celsius (that is 14 degrees Fahrenheit for you weirdos). Though, Kelly and Kristin were brave enough to come out with me, and we wandered around the city for 1h or so per day. (I got almost crazy of being inside all day long – people know I can`t sit still for a long time…) Even though we were not outside for a long time, I was able to make some nice pictures around the city:
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| Fancy Viennese decorations in fancy Viennese streets! |
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| Gluhwein! Prost! |
How did we spend New Year's eve in Vienna? We stayed at the flat, where we had the best view to watch the fireworks. The fireworks already started an hour earlier, but then, when it was midnight, there were so much fireworks going on we didn't even know where to make a picture :-)
Taking pictures of fireworks is a pretty hard task since they move fast, and there is relatively little light. Long shutter speeds were necessary, and therefore, we had to stand very still for a long time. Kelly and Kristin noticed that if they put their hand in front of the camera for a short amount of time, they could create a cool “ghost” image, so we spent some time playing around with that technique as well.
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| Ghosts in the window |
Kristin and Kelly edited the pictures in Picasa – a light photo editing software – and they figured out that by changing the image saturation, the colors of the fireworks were greatly enhanced. The images in the photos were originally pretty washed out and white, but by increasing the color saturation, the reds, blues, greens, and golds of the fireworks were able to be uncovered, so that the images look pretty close to reality.
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| Fireworks lighting up the town |
Very cool! I've tried photographing fireworks before and you're right, it is really difficult. Your shots here turned out amazing, though.
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