About the Image(s)

While in Budapest we took a bus tour that included viewing sites on both sides of the Danube and while slowly moving with traffic along the Buda shore line, we passed a break in the trees so that I could see the Parliament Building directly across the river. I picked up my Canon 7D Mk2 with a Tamron 16-300mm zoom lens and snapped a handheld image. Of course it contained a lot of visual clutter, but I was impressed with the autofocus accuracy on the building in the distance. The settings were 30mm zoom for 1/400 sec at f/9.0 and ISO 100.

Because of the sharpness, I decided to clean the image up, convert it to B&W and enter it in this month’s critique.
I straightened and cropped it in LR and then moved to PS to remove the power lines and some minor intruding items. Back in LR, I selected the sky with a selective mask and increase the contrast in the sky and overall sharpness, before converting it to B&W using Preset 01 and adding a slight vignette.

I am pleased with the results, even though it started as a snapshot.