This is my favorite bridge in Budapest. The chain bridge is more popular, but I like the look of this one more. One thing that I find very interesting on this bridge is, that there is no railing between the walkway and the road. I never seen a bridge like this without a railing.
This is a manual blend from 7 shots. I started with the +1EV photo and the used all the darker shots to darken the lights on the bridge. Then I used the +2 and +3 shot to brighten the building in the distance a little.
A little different view of the Chain bridge in Budapest. I actually wanted to brighten the sky a little, but during my two brightest exposure a bus passed in front of me, so you could see nothing just the bus lights on those shots. So I left it dark. You could ask why I didn’t take another series of shots, but the reason is simple. This is taken from the middle of a roundabout and I definitively know I should not have been standing there :) So I just quickly took a series and moved along :)
This is a manual blend from 5 exposure, used to mostly darken the bridge.
This is taken from one of those places, where I just return and return, but usually can’t get a nice photo from. The reason is simple. Right below what you see, are very strong lights, which lighten up a front part of a tunnel. And those light create just horrible flares and colors in photos. But still I decided to try and edit this one, an I think the result is not that bad :) Just looks a little to busy :)
In this shot, the Chain Bridge in Budapest. Manual blend from 6 shots, edited only in Photoshop.
And here is another photo :). Actually the blending part here was the most simple part of editing. I spend most of the editing tweaking the colors and the trying to correct the perspective. I was’t absolutely centered when taking this, so there was some distortion. But when I fixed it, I lost the head from the painting which is in the top center of the photo. So I had to go back and using warp in Photoshop I corrected only parts of the photo, so the painting is not affected :)
Photo taken in Stephans Basilica in Budapest. This is a manual blend from 5 exposure, edited only in Photoshop with a little help of Color Efex :)
I love shooting during the morning blue hour. Just the problem is, that it’s usually so early, that don’t even the city transport is running yet. That actually happened to me the day I shoot this. I was really hoping to catch the first morning metro ride, but just the line I had to take started a half hour later, so instead I took a nice long walk at 4:30 in the morning :) The city looks quite different at that time.
For those interested, this is the Hero’s square in Budapest at 5am. Manual blend of 4 shots (I took 7). I blended only parts of the monument, as I tried not to edit the sky at all, as that created horrible color bending. Btw. not doing any noise reduction really helps avoiding color bending.
