My usual composition for a place like this is to find the exact center and go for a nice symmetry. But when I’m done with that I try for a different composition. So here I tried to have the light as a nice foreground object. It was a little higher up form the place where I was standing, but still it changed the feel of the photo completely.
This is a tonemmaped image created in Photomatix Pro and then edited further in Photoshop. Photo taken from the stage of the opera in Budapest.

Destination Paris

So tomorrow I’m off to another trip. This time I will spend the week taking photo of Paris. So a week from now, you can await many new Paris photos on this blog.

Morning Sun

I have so many photos with blue skies, so I wanted something a little different here. So I used a technique I usually don’t use that much, and that is using different white balance for different parts of the photo. So here I used the two darkest exposures for the sky, with a warmer color balance and a little purple tint and then combined them with three colder exposures for the monument. I think it worked out quite nicely :)

This is a manual blend from 5 shots, taken very early in the morning at the Hero’s square in Budapest, Hungary.

And onto number 7. Btw. Sorry for the short descriptions, I’m making this posts all at once, before my departure :). Right now I’m somewhere in Birmingham (or I should be :)). So let’s continue with an indoor shot from the St. Stephens Basilica in Budapest. Here getting the right colors was the most difficult task.
This is the final photo, open the full post to see the original shot and how it looked in photoshop:

Today I’m leaving for 10 days to UK. And as the recent months I had very few opportunities to take new photos, instead of posting worse ones, I decided to post something different. So for the next 10 days I will show you more from my post-processing. I will post 10 of my photos, how they looked as a Lightroom export, how the editing layers in Photoshop looked and the final photo at the end :) Hope you like this little view into my work.

So here goes the first one, named Entering the Chain bridge.
This is the final photo, open the full post to see the original shot and how it looked in photoshop:

It almost reads like the Golden gate bridge :) but this one is of course in Budapest, and it looks so gold because the photo was taken after sunset, with all the lights on, and it was also raining a little at that time, which made everything look even more yellow :)

This is a manual blend from 7 shots. All blending just to tone down the very bright lights on the bridge.