Taken in Klagenfurt (southern Austria)

Taken in Klagenfurt (southern Austria)

Taken in Klagenfurt (southern Austria)

Taken in Klagenfurt (southern Austria)

Taken in Klagenfurt (southern Austria)

a lake from Turkey

Just a random recent shot I chose to use for test-driving the Nik plugins, for which Google has recently drastically reduced the price. Here I worked with LightRoom 4.3 (on Win 7, 64 bit) and usedDFine 2 (NR), Sharpener Pro 3 & a few filters from Color Efex 4. Worked seamlessly - no hiccups or performance problems, at all.

17 handheld photos stitched together with Autopano Giga.

This and the previous image in my gallery were developed from the same RAW, which showed significant banding. I took the image handheld and deliberately underexposed the file. I then brightened it by one EV, applied noise reduction and high ISO sharpening, all in LightRoom. The above image shows how the file looked at that point in post-processing. The other version of this file shows how it looked after additionally applying the VSCO 'Fuji Superia 1600' film preset and setting the Purple Hue Shift to -100 in LightRoom.

This and the previous image in my gallery were developed from the same RAW. The RAW file showed significant banding. I deliberately underexposed the file and brightened it by one EV, applied noise reduction and high ISO sharpening, all in LightRoom. The other version of this image shows how the file looked at that point in post-processing. The above version of this file shows how it looked after additionally applying the VSCO 'Fuji Superia 1600' film preset and setting the Purple Hue Shift to -100 in LightRoom.

The underbelly & the upper crust. Flex, the legendary club and music venue popular with Vienna's underground scene, towered over by the Ringturm, the historic office building that serves as the headquarters of the staid Vienna Insurance Group (with its funky weather indicator light tower on top). This is a panorama stitched together using hugin from two separate photos.

SOOC JPEG. I've been playing with the monotone setting, shooting in RAW+JPEG. I usually end up going with the RAW file, anyway, but I like the way that seeing a scene in black and white before photographing it helps me to better visualize how the contrast and lighting will play out in the final image - whether I go with a color or black and white treatment in the end.

Here's one I took using the Monochrome setting, but this end result is based on the RAW file, which I applied my own processing to.

The artist had just signed his work. The paint was literally still wet. He asked me to take a photo of this graffiti and email it to him (which I gladly did). This photo is a panorama of 3 photos stitched together via hugin. The building behind the graffiti is the Rossauer Kaserne, a complex completed in 1870 and used mainly by Austrian police and military agencies.

Graffiti artist putting the finishing touches on his work at the Danube Canal. When I approached him, he asked me to take a picture of the work and email it to him, which I gladly did.

Carpathian Shepherd dog and stray dog playing