Full Picture of Budapest at Night
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Here is yet another photo from my collection of 700 photos taken earlier this month on my Europe Trip (Munich, Prague, Vienna and Budapest). I’m a compete shutter bug and for anyone who knows me I usually have camera in hand or in my pocket waiting for that prefect photo opportunity.

The first night we arrived in Budapest we went on a long walk up to Buda Castle had a great dinner and Hungarian wine (Polgar) at Apetito. During our trip we liked to explore the streets, alley ways, and off beaten paths of the cities we visited. To my surprise we found our selves in a great location for a night photo shot of both the Hungarian Parliament and Buda Castle region.

Of course I only had my Canon SD900 camera (point and shoot), which isn’t great for night shots like a nice DSLR and tripod, but using my handy timer trick I was able to find some what of a stable location to set my camera and take this shot.

Hungarian Parliament Building
Originally uploaded by Gate-Way.

While looking though my trip photos (all 700 of them) I came upon this one that actually turned out really nice giving the circumstances of light, distance and lack of a tripod. This is the Parliament Building in Budapest and we are standing across the Danube river in the Buda Castle district. Here is a snippet from wiki about this building.

“The Hungarian Parliament Building (Hungarian: Országház) is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, one of the world’s greatest legislative buildings, a notable landmark of Hungary and a popular tourist destination of Budapest. It lies in Kossuth Lajos Square, right on the bank of the Danube, at Budapest”

I was surprised as to how this photo came out and most of the night photos of buildings usually turned out blury but I remembered a trick to do when you don’t have a tripod handy.

Most point and shoot cameras have a timer function which counts down a number of seconds and takes the photo. So finding a good stable place to set my camera i used the 10 second function, which as you can tell worked out nicely. Just a friendly photography trick to keep in mind.