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Castle Malbork / Marienburg, PolandLargest castle in the world, as far as I know, and former headquarters of the order of the Teutonic Knights.
Dedicated to , on the occasion of his birthday!
I've posted this one before (it's still around somewhere in my gallery if you want to compare), but I gave it a new crop and new (Lightroom) postwork; I think the old version was murky. This shot was taken in 2005, way before I started to work with RAWs (which I can recommend to everyone who has this option on their camera) but in this case it didn't prove to much of a problem to Lightroom. Informed criticisms and comments welcome.
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Thank you Tomek! 
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excellent image Eric
i know life might be busy for you at the moment but when you get a chance have a look at my facebook page and of course my DA gallery
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Thank you Andrew! I just found my way to your Fb page.
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you're most welcome Eric and thank you too
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Teutonic Knights headquarters were in Poland? I would not have imagined that!
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It's hard to imagine if you're from Western-Europe (except Alsace perhaps), but the Polish borders have always been rather fluid. It's nothing strange to stand in a large town on a crossing and see a soviet-style street, a 19th century German block and ten some baroque or medieval Polish architecture again. Not to mention an Austrian cafΓ©. I find it quite captivating, history becomes very tangible that way.
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I should pay a visit to this area of Europe that I don't know then!
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I think you'll bring home a lot of nice shots.
I miss it. I went there when I wasn't as seriously busy with photography as I'm now, and yet I got nice shots - my DD for one thing. (Ha, a Street DD way before I knew what Street or DDs were... 
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Thank you, Viktor!
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Thank you so much!
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Thank you Patrick!
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Amazing! The landscape does a lot for it as well. Funny thing, I've been living in Poland for 1 year already and I still haven't been there. Lots of wonderful places to see in this country though I must admit.
One question if you don't mind. Why do you recommend to work with RAWs? I will soon have that possibility and I know that I'll be doing it a lot since I recently started working with HDR and it matters a lot because of the colour values and editing possibilites, but what other advantages does it bring?
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All in all, I spent two months holidays in Poland, busy seeing things, and there are still things I want to see and interesting towns that I haven't visited.
Under perfect circumstances - no big contrasts, enough light in general - a JPG may often be fine, especially when edited. If you have to restore a blown-out sky or shadowed parts that are too dark, you may have more possibilities with a RAW file.
But it's also a matter of principle. People often think that a JPG straight out of the camera is something untouched and purely their photographic work. In fact, it isn't. Turning the 'raw' visual data into the JPG-file, the camera's software makes quite a lot of choices. I want to make those myself. And then there are the limitations of the camera's sensor. Expose for the foreground and even a sky with nice clouds may become entirely white. With a RAW-file, you stand more of a chance to save it.
Something like the white balance may be saved at home in your computer (Lighroom is brilliant for this) much easier if there was no opportunity to get it right on the spot too.
The only reason a professional may have to use JPGs instead of RAWs is to safe some time when in a hurry or to save memory space when on the road and running out of memory chips. For convenience, I save both the RAW and the JPG on my camera.
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Thanks for the long and detailed answer! Now I'm starting to get a better picture of it, I guess I'll get to experience that in detail later through my own experience and see for myself. Saving both formats will help a lot as well in my case I think.
When you were in Poland have you been to ToruΕ? For me it's one of the most beautiful and atmospheric cities that I've been to so far.
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Yes, I've been in ToruΕ, it was on our first trip in 2003. I remember it as a nice, well-preserved city and we had a good time there.
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A spectacle and very impressive looking place,thank you very much Eric,an honour and privilege my good friend
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It's a pleasure, Jonathan, and thank you!
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Thank you Frenchfox!
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An amazing dedication for Jonathan!
Very appropriate dear Eric!
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Thank you, dear friend, I'm glad you like it!
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