It was cold and windy when I was in Budapest, but at least few photos came out quite nicely. I found this place just walking around the city. It was just behind the West Railway station. It looked like a nice place to relax, but not at that weather :)
A handheld HDR from a single raw at 2000 ISO? Not very usual setting for me. I didn’t even take this so I edit it, just to have a photo that I was there :). But as you can see, it doesn’t look that bat at all. My goal was to use my tripod and do a proper (at least 9 brackets) series. But I was just to slow. The guard noticed me and ask me not to use it. It was strange, as they had no problems with flash photography, which I think is much worse than using a tripod.
When I finished this photo, I noticed some strange “artifacts” on the bottom, on the water. At first I thought I did something wrong in the processing, and then I found that it’s the reflection of the clouds :) It just looks a little strange.
I took this photo around two weeks ago, when I went out shooting with Jim Nix who is also a HDR photographer and also has his own HDR photography blog at http://www.nomadicpursuits.com/ . If you check out his blog, he posted a photo from the same evening just yesterday. We really had luck for great clouds, and for usable weather. Just around two hours before this photo was taken, there was a heavy rain in Bratislava.
This is my very first fish-eye HDR. I tried to remove the distortion as good as I knew, and I think for a first photo is quite good. But I still see a lot of errors in it. But it will get better :) I also took a panorama of this view, so I hope I add it soon to this blog.
This is what I like the most about Spain, these beautiful brick buildings looks just so great. I love the soft sandy colors which came out in this photo. I took this one only handheld, so I was very happy the the shots aligned perfectly and the result was a perfectly sharp photo.
I took this shot earlier this year in the city Toledo in Spain
