She warned me in advance that the scene is quite poorly lit. Hence we decided to make the shots when we had the most daylight available and I took two SB-800s with me.

Relative darkness was only one of challenges. The uneven light coming through the windows and the curvature of the walls were the others.

First I was trying to work without the speedlights with longer exposure times having the camera on a tripod. It did not work well because of the uneven lighting: some parts of the images were OK while others stayed in dark. 
Then I switched the flashes on. For this picture I placed one speedlight to the first turn of the stair case and the other one level below that. To my surprise the commander mode from the D80 was working fine and the flash lights got the signal and fired even in this distance and not being in sight at all. I suppose the signals were reflected from the walls. The speedlights were in remote mode and I set the power of the SB-800s from the camera experimenting between 1/16 and full power. I shot roughly 10 pictures with different flash settings to find the somewhat appropriate lighting.

I expected the curvature of the wall to cause some focusing issues: giving to much unsharp areas on the images. I was using higher aperture settings in trying to avoid it. I might have used even higher ones.     For this picture there was one flash just in front of of the camera tripod pointing to the ceiling and an other in the turn of the staircase.

Click on the picture for the slideshow of the rest of the images.

I appreciate any suggestions for the next time.    

Hervé was born as László Elkán in 1910 in Hódmez?vásárhely, Hungary and was known as the most important architecture photographer of the twentieth century.
He studied economics in Vienna then moved to Paris where he met Robert Capa and Andre Kertész and made photo reports about the war for French magazines but got captured in 1940 and spent time in German captivity.
He started to paint in the early ‘40-s and his paintings were exhibited in 1942 and 1943.

In 1949 he met the architect Le Corbusier and made 650 shots in a day of a building of his that was being built in Marseille. Later he became Le Corbusier’s photographer and spent most of his time on the visual re-interpretation of the architect’s life-work. Eighteen-thousand of Hervé’s half million photographs are related to Corbusier’s works. Le Corbusier said that he had noticed such things on his buildings by Hervé’s pictures that he had not thought of before.

Hervé became the Knight of Order of Honour in 1991 for the role he played in the French Resistance during the Second World War II.

Lucien Hervé links:
Artnet
R A L P H: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities

Original article in Hungarian on index.hu

A Budai Ifjúsági Parkot 1982-ben végelgesen bezárták. Azel?tt budapesti pop- és rock koncerteknek volt jelent?s helyszí­ne a kommunista érában egy évtizeden keresztül.
Védett m?mlék státusza miatt felújí­tása elég komplikált feladat, és régóta vár a megfelel? befektet?re.

Interesting from architectural point of view too /
Építészeti szempontból is jelent?s

Closed since 1982 / 1982 óta zárva

And some HDR again / és végül újra egy kis HDR
No HDR tone mapping HDR nélkül	Gradation to HDR Átmenet HDR-be	Full HDR tone mapping Teljes HDR

Some links about the Park: / Néhány link a BIF-r?l:

• an old photo of the crowd waiting for a concert in the seventies at the Park
  egy régi kép egy koncertre váró tömegröl a 70-es években a Parkban
• an article about the famous concert venue
  egy cikk a hí­res koncert helyszí­nr?l
• an other article about a musical about the Park
  és egy másik cikk egy, a Parkról szóló musicalr?l