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ブラチスラヴァとプラハに続いて三つ目の町としてブダペストをトップ5リストに加えたい。ブダペストには以下のスポット以外にも多くの見所があるが、全部が簡単にいける場所ではなかったり、あるいは三脚の使用が禁止されていたりする。ま、将来的には以下のリストにもその他の箇所も徐々に加えていきたい。良い写真が撮れた順番に…

ブダペストの写真集はこのリンクから

ブダペストの観光をプランする時間がない場合は、友人の写真家マーイェル・ミクローシュ氏のガイダンス付き「ハンガリー・フォト・ツアー」を見て置いてください (英語だけ)。

(日本語のコメントや質問には残念ながら答えられません。英語でどうぞ!)

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くさり橋の下から

まず私のお気に入りの被写体の橋で始めよう。
くさり橋はどの時間帯に行っても、素晴らしい姿をみせてくれるが、一番のおすすめは日の出の時。特に、夜の照明がまだ点灯していてブルーアワーも始まりかける、たった10分~15分の短い一瞬がなんとも幻想的で趣深いものである。なお、この場所へ行く際、信号がなく混んでいる大通りを渡らないといけないので、気を付けて!

Early in the morning
The rainy evening in Budapest

ドナウ川のブダ側から撮る国会議事堂の風景

ここも日の出の頃が一番綺麗に撮れるだろう。まず、太陽が国会議事堂の背後から上っていく姿を収めることができる。また早朝だと、撮影の邪魔となる船が少ないので、水面に映る姿も収められる。しかし、他の時間帯だと船も多く、もちろん水面に映る姿も楽しめない。もし、国会議事堂の真正面からの姿を撮りたければ、ブダ側のドナウ川沿いを散歩してみよう。金属プレートのあるところが真正面。

The very soft colors in Budapest
Another very early morning

聖イシュトヴァーン大聖堂

私は主に三脚使用に許可の必要がない場所を選びがちだが、聖イシュトヴァーン大聖堂は例外。なぜなら、堂内はあまりにも魅力的だからだ。早朝で運が良ければ、三脚を使用することができる時もある。ようは、堂内に入る前に何もかも手元に準備しておこう。入って、すばやくほしい写真を撮って、退場しよう。以前、運良く10分間注意されずに撮影を楽しむことが出来たこともあった。

Lights in the Basilica
Different composition

上からみる自由橋

自由橋はどの角度から撮っても橋自体見事なものだ。でも、本当は、橋付近での撮影ではなく、橋の向こう側(ブダ側)にある丘の十字架からの撮影が最適な撮影スポットだと思う。行ってみればわかるだろうが、撮影に夢中になって上から落ちないように気を付けましょう!

Liberty bridge
Not a very colorful sunset

漁夫の砦

王宮の丘にある漁夫の砦は中々の景色が楽しめる場所だが、砦自体は閉館していることが多い。砦の二階の部分は入場料金が必要だが、一階のベランダ部分は無料で入ることが出来る。日の出か日の入りの写真を撮る時間帯だと無料で入れる。(係員がいない時は自由に入れると解釈しよう)

Budapest
Fisherman's Bastion

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パリと同様、以下のお勧め箇所のリストはナイスな写真が撮れるリストに過ぎない。ロンドンをもっと詳しく知るには何度も何度も(近いうちに)訪れたい。ま、以下の一覧は今までのお気に入りスポットの臨時的なリストとしよう。

ロンドンの写真集はこのリンクから

(日本語のコメントや質問には残念ながら答えられません。英語でどうぞ!)

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タワー・ブリッジ

ロンドンに来る誰もがするのと同様、私も真っ先に訪れたスポットはここだった。橋の写真を撮る時、橋の周りをうろうろする時警備員に止められることが多いので、びっくりしないでください。ほんの短い間に二回も止められた。クランプと卓上用の三脚を持参することがお勧め。

Passing red buses ロンドン
Colorful Tower Bridge ロンドン

シティ・ホール

シティ・ホールはタワー・ブリッジのすぐ近くにあり、タワー・ブリッジを撮るにも大変ふさわしい。大きな三脚を使うと警備員に止められる可能性があるが、私は今のところセーフ。ここも卓上用の三脚があると大きな手助けになる。

London City hall ロンドン
In the Matrix ロンドン

ウェストミンスター橋

意外なことに警備員もいないし、橋を撮るにも、橋からの眺めを撮るにもふさわしい場所である。早朝には、ウェストミンスター宮殿の前を走っていくバスの姿も写真に収めることができる。

Big Ben ロンドン
Morning bus ロンドン

ロンドン・アイ

ここも警備員や警察官に止められるチャンスが高い。ちなみにロンドン全体で警官に止められる可能性が高いので、心の準備をしておこう。観覧車とライトアップされた木々の光景は年中無休楽しめる。

The London Eye ロンドン
The London Eye in the morning ロンドン

レドンホール・マーケット

今回お勧めする他のスポットはみな屋外だが、屋内のスポットとしてこちらを紹介しよう。市場の一部が屋根付きであり、建造物としてもすばらしい。近代的なエリアに位置しているため若干見つけにくいが、訪れる価値は必ずある。

Leadenhall Market In London

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Luminar deal

Great deal on Luminar

If you have been looking at the Luminar software for macs and you were waiting for a great deal, now is the time to get it. For the next 10 days, you can get it for 50% off (that is 69 USD instead 139 USD) and you even get few bonuses with it (two ebooks, more presets and overlays). And even more, if you use the code “HDRSHOOTER” you will get it even additional 10 USD cheaper.

Head over to the Luminar website for more information and the offer.

TKActions V5

One of the tools I use in my photo editing is the TKActions panel from Tony Kuyper. It’s especially great for creating luminance masks and sharpening for web. And just few days ago, TKActions were updated with a completely new panel set, the TKActions V5. So if you do a lot of luminance masking, I would suggest checking it out. I will cover it more, in a few guides, but for now, check out the official page here.

You can see the panel in the screen-shot to the right. It’s quite big like this, but in reality its 5 separate panels, and you can only open the ones you need.

Late evening at the Burj Khalifa

I really like the photos I took in Dubai, so I regularly go through them, to see if I find one more to edit and share with you. For today I found another one of the Burj Khalifa.

I did not have the best setup when I took this. I used a wide angle lens, to take a vertorama, while using a table top tripod and having no panoramic head or tilt shift lens at hand. So if you look at the screen-shot to the right, you can see how much distortion there was when I combined the shot, and also how much I had to crop out to get the final shot. But with a bit of editing and tweaks, I ended up with a nice results.

This is a two shot vertorama, each shot from two exposures. The panorama was combined in PTgui (learn how in this guide) and finished in Photoshop.

Late evening at the Burj Khalifa Dubai UAE

You will notice here, there is a church tower in front of the Hungarian parliament. It would be better without it, but there is a small problem to that. There is a place, from where you can see the parliament without the tower. It’s directly from the Fishermans bastion. The problem there is, that it is a restaurant, that is mostly not accessible at all, or they allow entry to it only for a short time and close it quite early. In the years I have been visiting Budapest, I only got into the bastion once, and this is not one of the photos from that evening. But I still like it, and I hope you do so too :)

Yellow glow of the Hungarian parliament

If you ever been to Budapest, and every tried to take a photo of the Hungarian parliament building, you know how crazy strong the lights are compared to the surroundings. It just completely overpowers everything around it with the strong yellow glow. I really does take a bit of work to tone it back down again, so one doest not have the whole building overexposed.

For this photo I used two exposures, one for the base and a second at -2EV for the light. I edited both in Lightroom and blended together in Photoshop.

Yellow glow of the Hungarian parliament Budapest

While I use a Sony camera mostly now, I also use a the Canon 5D mark II. And since the Magic Lantern firmware makes working with it so much better, today I will show you how to install Magic lantern, update and uninstall it. I will be showing all the steps on the 5D mark II, but there are same on other cameras.
Magic lantern
For why to use Magic Lantern, check out this article, on what I like the most about it.

Also, be warned, as with all unofficial software, you install Magic Lantern at your own risk (but I still have not heard about any big problems with it).

How to install Magic Lantern

Magic lantern installation is in two parts. It a change in the camera that notes that it should use the firmware on the card, and it’s the files you have to copy to the card that are used.

So to install it, you will need a computer with a card reader, a fully charged camera and a memory cart to use. I seen suggestions to reset the camera to default settings and set to Manual mode before starting, but I never did this once and never had issues, but to be safe, you may do so.

So to install you must:

  1. Download the version of Magic Lantern for the camera you need from the Magic Lantern website.
  2. Check if you camera has the correct firmware version, as required by Magic Lantern. You may need to update it first before being able to install ML firmawre
  3. Format the memory card using your camera.
  4. Turn off your camera, remove the card and connect it to the computer using the card reader
  5. Unpack the downloaded files you got into the root directory of the memory card
  6. Put the card back into the camera and turn it on
  7. Chose update firmware from the cameras menu, and wait
  8. Magic Lantern firmware
    Magic Lantern firmware
  9. Once you see a prompt to restart your camera, turn it off, wait a few seconds and turn it back on
  10. Magic Lantern firmware
    Magic Lantern firmware
  11. Now you can check the firmware version to see if its installed, and open the ML menu by pressing the trash button

If yo want to install the ML firmware on another card, just use the same steps, format the card, copy the files, put into the camera, turn on and update firmware with the new card.

How to update Magic Lantern

Updating Magic lantern is very easy, as you only need to update the files on the memory card. So you do the following:

  1. Connect the card to your computer (what you see depends on the version, but it can be like this)
  2. Remove the ML folder and all files, except the settings folder under ML folder (don’t delete the camera folders, the DCIM and MISC on Canon cameras)
  3. Extract and copy the downloaded files, same as when you are installing the firmware for the first time.
  4. Put the card into a camera that is off and turn it on. In a case that it wont turn on, turn it back off, remove the battery for few seconds and turn it back on.
  5. Magic Lantern firmwareOld version
    Magic Lantern firmwareNew version

How to uninstall Magic Lantern

Remove from camera

To uninstall the firmware from the camera, you need to have a card with the ML firmware installed in the camera and the camera turned on. Then you need to:

  1. Choose firmware in the menu
  2. Choose to update the firmware
  3. When prompted to restart the camera, do nothing. You will see a counter on the bottom of the screen, that counts down until the firmware will be uninstantiated.
  4. Magic Lantern firmware
    Magic Lantern firmware

     

  5. Restart your camera, but not before the timer finished. Wait for it, until its done first.

Remove from card

To just remove the firmware from the memory cards you have to:

  1. Choose to format the card inside the camera
  2. In the confirmation menu you will see a message Format card, keep ML. You need to change this to Format card, remove ML. To do so, press the button noted inside the brackets []. Picture Style in my case.
  3. Magic Lantern firmware
    Magic Lantern firmware

     

  4. Choose OK and confirm

And now you know how to install, update and uninstall Magic lantern firmware. For more, don’t forget to check out their official site here.

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