Trychydts in English

I spend the end of the year at V.’s parents’. At last I have time to catch up with my things. I have many letters to write, many software to try out. I also barely had time to make photos lately. Fortunately here I have the opportunity to test myself at special circumstances.

One evening we had a walk around the two lakes near the house. It was snowing for days, everything was covered by snow, that’s why it was surprisingly bright outside. I tried to make some photos, and I was surprised to make fairly decent images even with low ISO settings.

This image was taken with ISO64 with a 15-second exposure. I did not expect such good results. I was also surprised by the interesting white balance. This effect looked just liked the one of the street lamps — except there were no street lamps nearby.

I made a silhouette portrait of ourselves. I tried to use the flash, but the results were unconvincing.

A little later I found the source of the yellowish tint: a large city, Pécs is only a few kilometers from the lake. These photos were taken with ISO400 because I needed more flexibility with the shutter speed. On the first picture, the reflection of the city lights on the clouds is more definite. On the second one, the city itself can be seen near the lower edge of the photo.

Taking these pictures were challenging for two reasons. First, we left our tripod at home (I really did not expect midnight photography) . Secondly, it was too dark to use the viewfinder. I had to compose the picture with the “try and error” method. I searched for a fixed spot where I could put my camera (first we must have cleaned it from the snow), then I took a picture, viewed it and the repositioned the camera.