St. Stephen’s Basilica

I’m going for a few photo day’s to Budapet next week, so I hope I will get some good new photos from there. Have to check out some new places, to get shot of something new, not just the river surrounding. But of course I will do also some there. You just can’t skip it :)

This is a two shot panorama of the St. Stephen’s Basilica, as seen from the High Note Skybar. This is one of my recommended spots from Budapest btw. :). Panorama combined in Lightroom, finished in Photoshop.

Green fireworks over Budapest

Yes I love fireworks photos. I would not mind sharing one every day, but the blog would be boring after a while :) This one is another one from the St. Stephen day’s (that I recommend as the best day to visit Budapest) fireworks. Regrettably, I will not be able to go to Budapest this year, so no new ones from that. But I still have many from last years, you have not seen yet, and here is one.

I like when fireworks are of a strong dominant color in a photos, as that pushes the whole photo into that color. And here, the green fireworks just worked so well like that.

This is a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop. I blended parts of it, by creating two copies of the same photo, one overexposed, one underexposed.

Night at the rooftop bar

I already posted a photo from this rooftop bar in Budapest sometime before, and here is a second one. This one was taken a bit later in the night. Still there were quite a few people there, and I ended up taking few photos for them. It happens quite a lot that when people see me taking photos, they also ask me to take a photo of them (with their camera/phone of course :))

This is a two shot vertorama, each shot from two exposures. Combined in PTgui, blended in Photoshop.

Rooftop bar in Budapest

During my last visit to Budapest earlier this year, I also visited the Hight Note Skybar. It really close to the St. Stephens basilica. And while you can’t see down to the street due to neighboring roofs, you still get a nice view with the stairs right in front of the church. And so you know, nobody had a problem that I used a tripod there, but if you want to be sure that you have space, I would do a reservation (we were a bit lucky, and god a good spot without it :))

This is a two shot vertorama, each shot from three exposures. Combined in Lightroom (for some reason PTgui refused to merge them properly) and finished in Photoshop.

Night in Budapest

For today’s photo I chosen one taken during my earlier visits to Budapest. This is the night view you get from the lookout platform in front of the Buda castle. It just gets so yellow at night :)

This is a blend of three exposures, mostly for the strong lights on the bridge. Edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.