About the Image(s)

How I Did It:
This is the small town of Weissenkirchen in Austria, in the Wachau Valley of the River Danube. We were on a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam. I think Weissenkirchen means White Churches. I was on deck watching the scenery pass slowly by, and thought the town looked quite picturesque under the heavy clouds. It was a case of framing quickly, focussing and pressing the shutter button before it all changed. Although everything moves slowly by, it is surprising how quickly the picture changes. Now back home, I am working through the many images I shot, and this is the first one I looked at. In ON1 I made very few basic adjustments, and then locally darkened the clouds and lightened the shadows on the background trees. I also darkened the bottom left corner and added the Sunshine Filter overall which just seems to lift the tones nicely. I then just lightened the church a little to help it stand out. I was using my new Lumix FZ1000 camera with the built in Leica zoom lens. Exposure was 1/3200 at f/7.1 and ISO 800 with a focal length of 10 mm (equiv to 27 mm full frame). I used the high shutter speed to minimise the effects of movement which is why I was using ISO 800. The original file was a bit noisy but ON1 now has a very good noise reduction filter which took care of that.