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Recently I really like getting symmetry in my photos. And places like churches are really great for that. I tried the same thing here, but was not really able to get it perfectly symmetrical, as the scene wasn’t symmetrical on its own. But still I think it worked out nicely. Especially I like all the detail in the walls. I haven’t even noticed it while I was taking the photos (it was quite dark there), so it was a pleasant surprise when I started editing.

This is a manual blend from 6 shots. I got a -3EV shot because of the very bright window, where I still wanted to have all the detail. This is a side window in Pannonhalma Archabbey basilica, the one on the left :)
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Some photographers have luck for weather, some don’t. I’m probably from the group that has not much luck with weather :). It was same in London, so I so wish to revisit it soon. Maybe even this year, but more probably the next one. But I still have few photos to process from there, so here is another one of the Tower bridge.

This is a manual blend from 5 shots.
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Today I have for you a photo from the House of Esterházy in Hungary. This was (and is still partially used) as a noble family home. And surprisingly, they have no problems with tripods there. You just have to wait for the group you are with to move along and you can get yourself some nice shots. Just to bad you cant turn on the lights, as that would give the whole room a much better feel.

This is a manual blend from 3 shots. I took 6, but only used the ones I needed. Overall this room had very soft colors, and I tried to keep that in the final photo.
In the House of Esterházy

Art of Cityscape photography by Jimmy McIntyre

I get many questions about a video tutorial, and I plan to do one, but it will still take a lot of time until one is ready. But my friend Jimmy McIntyre recently released a complete series of tutorials where he goes through all different post-processing steps, including luminance masking. I’m still in the middle of watching them, but from what I have seen, he uses a lot of the similar steps as I do. I will post a longer review of the course later, but as Jimmy currently gives a 10$ discount for his Art of Citiscape course, I decided to share it now.

The course is normally 34.99$, but the current discount price until Tuesday is 24.99$. And if that is still too much for you, if you use the discount code “hdrshooter” you will get an additional discount of 5$ :)

You can get more info on the course and it’s content here: Art of Cityscape photography
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Sunset light

Today I have for you another shot from Paris. This one was taken from the Eiffel tower around sunset. At first I thought I will play with it a little more, but my computer had a different idea. Nothing really worked as it should today. Very slow Photoshop, slow responses, horribly slow internet. I had such problems even uploading the photo, upload to smugmug didn’t worked at all. And I’m on a fast line. It’s just one of those day.

This is a manual blend from 6 shots.
Sunset light

Today I have for you another photo from the Pannonhalma Archabbey. I have to send big thanks to Reka Pirovits Kiss and Zsofy Turi from the http://www.europeanquartetblog.com/ for helping me to get into this awesome location (and many more :)). Go check out their blog for great information about central Europe. And if you don’t speak Japanese, you can find the english version here http://www.europeanquartet-eng.com/

This is a HDR created in Oloneo Photoengine from 5 shots, then finished in Photoshop.
In the Pannonhalma Archabbey

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