Castle on the hill

What lovely colors I got in this photo. It was taken really at the exact time after sunset.

I was hoping to post another photo from Budapest today, but I’m just too tired to edit another one. But there will definitively be one tomorrow.

Back home

So I’m back home from Budapest. I took a lot of photos, but I’m not sure how many of them will be usable. I had bad luck with weather. The whole time I had to fight with a very strong wind, which destroyed a lot of my photos. Sometime I had problems standing in it, so you can imagine how it was shaking my camera around. So lets start with an interior shot, as there was no wind :)

The stunning ceiling in the St. Stephen’s Basilica

I tried to center this as much as possible, and have it very symmetrical. I almost completely succeed :) I had quite fun taking this shot, but I will write about that next time :)

I went for 13 exposures here. Not that I really needed them, but I wanted to be sure I have enough. This was a too nice shot to miss them.

St. Martin’s Cathedral at night

There is so much color in night shot. The long exposure can find it almost everywhere. This is of course another shot taken from the top of the New Bridge.

Destination Budapest

So right about when this is posted to my blog, I’ll be in a train heading to Budapest. I’m spending the weekend there, relaxing and of course taking a lot of photos. So from Monday onward they will be on the site :)

Castle & Bridge

Always when I pass here I take this photo. I probably have dozens of variants of this shot. But I just can’t resist this reflection.

I went for 9 shots here, as first series I took with only 7 had the caste still overexposed. This scene really has a very high dynamic range, between the white castle and the dark underside of the bridge. I went very light on the post-processing again. I combined the shots in Photomatix, then corrected few spots in Photoshop, removed noise, sharpened image using Unsharp mask and added more contrast and brightness. That’s all.

New header

I think everyone who visited my page before has already noticed it, but if not, there is a new header image :). I’m trying to give this page a more unique look, which everyone can associate with it. I hope you all like it. Let me know your opinions.

Church of the Annuciation of the Virgin Mary

Maybe not the most artistic photo of the Church of the Annuciation of the Virgin Mary but I think it is a very realistic photo of this very beautiful church. I would love to have a different composition, than this classic centered one, but as this was taken through a gate, I had no other possibilities.

I went with 11 shots for this one. I wanted to get all the dynamic range that was available. Also I vent very light on the HDR processing, just Photomatix and than noise reduction and sharpening in Photoshop. I wanted to keep the look of the church, as it really is.