If you ever wondered (like I do every-time :)) if you should get up in the middle of the night and go out to take photos of the sunrise, the answer should be always yes. And I think this photo proves my point. You don’t get a sunrise like this each time, but once you get it, all those early mornings were worth it.

This is the Liberty bridge in Budapest, my favorite one from all the bridges there. I really had luck this time, as the sunrise was very colorful for over 1 hour, so I even managed to move few times and get different views. Btw. no blending made on the sky, it’s completely from the -2 exposures, and no added saturation in this photo, just contrast. This is a manual blend from 5 shots, all used mostly to brighten the bridge.

So I’m back from the short trip to Budapest. Again I had a big pleasure to meet up with Elia Locardi and Naomi Locardi and also hit some photo locations with them. For those who follow Elia, you have probably seen his latest The Moments between photo on his Facebook profile (https://www.facebook.com/elialocardi), so you are probably as much curious about his edit of this view as I am.

This is blend from 3 shots, where only very few small areas were blended. I spend much more time removing scaffolding and 4 cranes from the photo, as the surrounding area of the parliament is a construction site. I hope there are no remains of them in the photo.

So hard to catch the blue hour sometimes. It passes so quickly. This one was actually just luck. I was just on the spot in the right time, with my camera in the bag.

This is a HDR created in Oloneo photoengine from 5 exposures and the result was blended with two of the original exposures in Photoshop.

The Parizsi udvar in Budapest is really a great looking place. I can even imagine how it looked like when it was first opened. I so hope that they will repair it. I was hypnotized by it. You may think that it looks dark and ugly now, but you have to look through it to see the beauty of the place.

You can see a photo of me on the side, while I was taking this shot. I was just looking up and enjoying the complicated structure. (Big thanks to Zsófi Turi for taking this photo :))

This is a manual blend from 6 shots.

I took this photo while I was waiting for the fireworks over Budapest. It was a very windy evening, so the quality of the photos suffered a little. I could not keep the camera still. Even I had problems standing still in such a strong wind. I also tried to use a clamp, to attach the camera to the railing, which would work great to steady it, but as there were a lot of people around leaning on the railing, they moved it too much. So the photo is not perfect, but the view still is nice and as I won’t go there so soon again, I decided to share the photo.

This is a manual blend from 5 shots, taken from the Citadel in Budapest.