June 22, 2006
Murrian In Budapest Days 1 and 2
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After a 7 hour train trip from Prague, we finally arrive in Budapest. My wife Nancy and I step off the train to a barrage of taxi and accommodation hawkers trying to get into our pockets before we’ve even drawn our first breath of Magyar air.
“Well, this is a little different than Prague,” I think. We push past the crowd and head out of the station, planning to walk a block or so away and grab a (presumably cheaper) taxi there.
We get one and he zips us off right to our tourist apartment we’ve rented in the city centre. All seems good so far! We get right to the door in a matter of minutes, and along the way the driver gives us a narrated tour of the sights. We’re immediately smitten by the beauty and grandeur of the city.
We get to the apartment, meet the elderly owners who are super sweet and totally fascinated by Nancy, who is Mexican. They chat about Mexico for awhile. Up in our room, we unpack a bit and decide to do something about the hunger pangs in our stomachs.
So we head out the door toward the glowing neon sign of one of our most missed American fast food treats – Burger King! This is something we don’t have in Prague, so we gobble down a couple of Whoppers with onion rings and go for a night time stroll of the neighborhood. We end up at the Elizabeth Bridge, and get our first look at the beautiful Danube.
We stop for an espresso then head back to the apartment to finish unpacking the equipment and get ready for the next day. It will be a busy one – An all day shoot and tour with my first model in Budapest, 20 year old Kriszti. We definitely need to get some sleep!
Day 2
Kriszti arrives right on time at 10AM. After the initial chit-chat, we go over the details of what we will be doing for the day: We’ll shoot in the apartment to start, then at about 12 noon we’ll head out to see some sights in the city, Kriszti acting as our guide. There’s only one little problem- Kriszti only moved to Budapest 2 days earlier and she knows about as much as we do So, we pick out some things on the map, decide where we’ll go, and then she and Nancy head off to another room to begin doing her make-up while I finish setting up the camera and lighting gear.
The shoot starts out really great. Kriszti is a great model and easy to work with. We finish a large and solid set of photos and, as planned, quit at 12. She changes back to street clothes and we head out. First stop, the Hungarian Parliament building, which is a real stunner. After that we head over to the legendary Chain Bridge, which was the first bridge built across the vast Danube.
Kriszti, Hungarian but new to the city herself, does her best to be a good guide, but she doesn’t know a lot about the tourist sights. But she’s a very smart girl, and quickly reads everything she can at each sight and translates to English for us. Plus, she’s very nice to look at!
After the Bridge we decide to head for some lunch and… disaster! The little Pentax OptioMX digital video/still camera we’re using suddenly reports an error with the SD memory card- and I left the back up in the apartment! Duh! We decide we should look for a camera shop to buy another, when Kriszti asks if we would mind if she ran off to another casting while we’re looking for one, and she’ll meet us again in 30 minutes. Of course we don’t mind, but we decide just to go to lunch and have her meet us there.
So we head off to a cafe, Kriszti runs off to her casting, and we’re without photo or video capability until we get back to the apartment. Kriszti arrives to meet us at the cafe, as promised, in exactly 30 minutes. We polish off lunch and head back to get more shooting done.
At the apartment, Kriszti and I jump right into a new set of photos, beginning outside on the building’s catwalks. We continue that set in the kitchen of the apartment, Nancy keeps shooting lots of behind the scenes snapshots.
Nancy had been very adamant from the onset of this project that she wanted to work entirely behind the scenes in a support capacity. Though she’s been a frequent MET model herself, she is really a rather shy person, and she’d only gotten into photography herself in the past year or so, so she’s still not too confident.
So she insisted that I be the guy writing the story, directing the show, and doing all the shooting with the girls. However, Nancy has a rather strong fondness for pretty blue-eyed blonde girls, particularly those of the more voluptuous type. So she surprised me and asked if she could take over the shooting duties for a bit and do some photos with Kriszti. Of course I was happy to oblige!
There’s a great sensual chemistry when one beautiful woman is photographing another. So I handed over the big Pentax and went to work shooting some behind the scene snaps myself…. until, Disaster #2 strikes! As Nancy is shooting, I run to the other room to begin copying some of the CF cards onto the Mac laptop we’ve brought with us. It starts copying and WHAM: System freeze. “What the hell is this?” I’m thinking.
I re-boot and try again. Same thing. Once more. Same thing. Now I’m panicking- if we can’t copy the data off the cards, we can’t continue the shoot because we’ll be out of space! I run and tell Nancy what’s up, ask her to just keep shooting Kriszti and I head out the door looking for a camera shop. I find one, and cough up 250 Euros for an additional large capacity CF card so we can at least finish the session with Kriszti and hope I can sort out the computer problem later that night to be ready for the next day.
I get back and Nancy finishes her set with Kriszti. Unfortunately, due to the computer problem we got very few shots of Nancy working with her, and no video. Big Bummer! I take over and Kriszti and I pound out one more set of photos- working with Nancy must have charged her up a bit too, because she put herself into some more seriously erotic poses in this last set!
We finish our last set of photos, wrap up the shoot, do a little closing video, snap some stills of Kriszti and I together, deal with the model release, model’s identification documents, etc, and call it a day.
Kriszti takes off, promising to come visit us in Prague sometime, and Nancy and I head out looking for a better camera shop where I can get a new card reader- I have no idea yet what’s wrong with the computer, but I’m hoping it’s just the card reader that’s gone bad and not the Mac itself… fingers crossed!
We find one, buy a new card reader and head back. We plug it in, pop in a CF card and…. YES! It works Thank God for that. We then clean up a bit and head out the door to enjoy a late evening dinner of Hungarian Goulash and a bottle of a fantastic Hungarian red wine… then it’s back home, shower, and hit the sack… we’ve gotta do it all over again the next day.
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