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More from the basilica – Process

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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:
More from the basilica

Entering the Chain bridge – Process

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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:
Entering the Chain bridge

The golden Chain bridge

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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.
The golden Chain bridge

Liberty bridge

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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.
Liberty bridge

Light trails on the bridge

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Light trails on the bridge

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.
Light trails on the bridge