The first shot of the day turned out wonderful. I tried a silhouette picture of the Heroes’ Square statues, and this is what I got. I LOVE the birds in the image. Although there is a distortion on the left side, since it is a silhouette, it works for me.
​My next stop was a closer image of the statues of the Seven chiefs of the Magyars. I experimented with the different vignette settings, and I’ll let you decide if you prefer this picture with a little or with a lot of vignette.

I went a bit closer, and I liked the Burnside 35 effect the most at this distance.

If you keep walking towards the Vajdahunyad Castle, you’ll get slightly different views of the City Park Ice Rink building. The first two are from the bridge, the last one from across from it. This building opened in 1870, and it is the largest ice rink in Europe.

When you enter the Vajdahunyad Castle, you are presented with buildings of various styles. This complex was created in 1896 as part of the Millennial Exhibition which celebrated the 1,000 years of Hungary since the Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895. The statue is of Anonymous, the unknown chronicler at the court of King Béla III who wrote a history of the early Magyars.

The inside part of the castle is shady in the morning (my favorite time to photograph). But if you walk outside, to the east side of the building complex, you can find this wonderful, sunlit view of the castle.

​Here are a few more images that I liked from this view point:

My last stop for the morning was at the Szechenyi Thermal Bath.

I want to end this post with some technical notes. As I am experimenting with the Burnside 35 lens I have found, that it works with certain architectural topics, but not with others. As long as the main subject is in the middle of the image, and the sides don’t contain important information, the lens creates wonderful images. On the other hand, if the subject – like the column at Heroes’ Square – has important visual information on the sides, blurring those takes away from the picture. Here is an example (no edits):

I’ve also found, that the most used aperture for architecture for me is between F8 and F16. Otherwise I lose too much information on the sides.​

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