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THE BANKS OF THE DANUBE, from 2003, was captured with a Nikon E5000 camera. An early model digital camera; it had a 5 megapixel sensor. By today’s standards this is small. I don’t believe one can even purchase a new 5 megapixel anymore.
As technology and my post production techniques improved over the years I’ve revisited my photographs of Hungary a couple of times. Subtle but beautiful changes in THE BANKS OF THE DANUBE include the addition of water blur and digital (vs. optical) tilt-shift. The photograph was also cropped to a 16:10 ratio to provide a tighter shot. I personally struggle with this because I sometimes feel too much story is being lost. In this instance the sky has been cropped as well as the bottom of the frame, which takes away an indication of the distance I was away from the river when I captured the image.
The photograph was captured through a glass window which created the red reflection on a third of the photograph’s left side. I chose to leave it because it sparks my memory. It may also provide a hint to the viewer that the scene was captured through a glass window… perhaps an adjoining apartment or hotel?
The Danube is Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is notable for being classified as an international waterway.
The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the German town of Donaueschingen. After that it is known as the Danube and flows southeastward for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles), passing through four Central and Eastern European capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.
Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman Empire, the river flows through or acts as part of the borders of ten countries: Germany (7.5%), Austria (10.3%), Slovakia (5.8%), Hungary (11.7%), Croatia (4.5%), Serbia (10.3%), Bulgaria (5.2%), Moldova (1.6%), Ukraine (3.8%) and Romania (28.9%).
As technology and my post production techniques improved over the years I’ve revisited my photographs of Hungary a couple of times. Subtle but beautiful changes in THE BANKS OF THE DANUBE include the addition of water blur and digital (vs. optical) tilt-shift. The photograph was also cropped to a 16:10 ratio to provide a tighter shot. I personally struggle with this because I sometimes feel too much story is being lost. In this instance the sky has been cropped as well as the bottom of the frame, which takes away an indication of the distance I was away from the river when I captured the image.
The photograph was captured through a glass window which created the red reflection on a third of the photograph’s left side. I chose to leave it because it sparks my memory. It may also provide a hint to the viewer that the scene was captured through a glass window… perhaps an adjoining apartment or hotel?
The Danube is Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is notable for being classified as an international waterway.
The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the German town of Donaueschingen. After that it is known as the Danube and flows southeastward for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles), passing through four Central and Eastern European capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.
Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman Empire, the river flows through or acts as part of the borders of ten countries: Germany (7.5%), Austria (10.3%), Slovakia (5.8%), Hungary (11.7%), Croatia (4.5%), Serbia (10.3%), Bulgaria (5.2%), Moldova (1.6%), Ukraine (3.8%) and Romania (28.9%).
