Post-processing cityscape of Parliament in Budapest

Today I was going through my photographs of 2014 and I stumbled upon a series of HDR photographs I took during our city trip to Budapest in March 2014. I remember it took about one hour and a half to take all the pictures during golden hour and blue hour. Hungary’s Parliament Building is situated at Pest’s riverbank. These photographs are taken on a tripod with my Sony a37 travel camera from the Buda side of the city.

A small anecdote: I remember the evening very good. I was waiting between shots and I was just looking around a bit, chatting to my wife, when a marathon runner, who was doing his daily run, came towards us at high speed. The moment I saw him, I recognised him as my colleague from work in Brussels. After a quick high-five, he continued his run. It must be a small world after all.

Post-processing of the photographs is done in Lightroom and Photoshop using three basic images of different stages of evening sky and upcoming city lights. For some reason I never post-processed these HDR photographs, but I surely like the result. It is a great riverbank view.

A quick thank you to my lovely wife for the patience and the willingness to wait just ‘that little bit longer for that amazing light coming any second now’.

Looking forward to hear your thoughts.

Happy Shooting