Art of Cityscape photography by Jimmy McIntyre

I get many questions about a video tutorial, and I plan to do one, but it will still take a lot of time until one is ready. But my friend Jimmy McIntyre recently released a complete series of tutorials where he goes through all different post-processing steps, including luminance masking. I’m still in the middle of watching them, but from what I have seen, he uses a lot of the similar steps as I do. I will post a longer review of the course later, but as Jimmy currently gives a 10$ discount for his Art of Citiscape course, I decided to share it now.

The course is normally 34.99$, but the current discount price until Tuesday is 24.99$. And if that is still too much for you, if you use the discount code “hdrshooter” you will get an additional discount of 5$ :)

You can get more info on the course and it’s content here: Art of Cityscape photography

Sunset light

Today I have for you another shot from Paris. This one was taken from the Eiffel tower around sunset. At first I thought I will play with it a little more, but my computer had a different idea. Nothing really worked as it should today. Very slow Photoshop, slow responses, horribly slow internet. I had such problems even uploading the photo, upload to smugmug didn’t worked at all. And I’m on a fast line. It’s just one of those day.

This is a manual blend from 6 shots.

Today I have for you another photo from the Pannonhalma Archabbey. I have to send big thanks to Reka Pirovits Kiss and Zsofy Turi from the http://www.europeanquartetblog.com/ for helping me to get into this awesome location (and many more :)). Go check out their blog for great information about central Europe. And if you don’t speak Japanese, you can find the english version here http://www.europeanquartet-eng.com/

This is a HDR created in Oloneo Photoengine from 5 shots, then finished in Photoshop.

I really hate it when there is a parking space right in front of a beautiful landmark. I think the areas around those should be walk-only zones and parks, not a parking space. The cities in Czech republic are quite bad in this. You often have parking spaces right by the historical buildings and quite often in the middle of walk-only zones. It makes the whole area feel worse.

Same here by the Vysehrad church. Horrible place for a parking area. And why? Just because there is a restaurant? Really bad decision on the planers part. Placing a parking area in the middle of a beautiful park (look at the map).

I wanted a photo from the front of the church for a longer time, but can never find the space empty. Same the last time I was there. But as there were some nice cars there, I decided to use them in the photo. There was this Porsche and a Bentley. Actually while I was taking this photo the owner came to pick up something from the car, and due to a very long exposure, you cant even see them. I did’t get to the Bentley, as another car parked right next to it as I finished this photo.

This is a manual blend from 5 shots.

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.