More london pics

Joe T

Joe T

Joe T

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I went into London by myself yesterday. I decided to go into the City, where there was one particular building I wanted to shoot.

This one:
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D70
22mm
f16
25sec
iso 200

This building was not easy to shoot. An 18mm lens on the D70 wasnt wide enough, and was vignetting anyway on my Cokin filter holder. The street was only car-width wide, so it was hard to get far enough away. I wanted it for the compo, but I dont think its good enough.

I got a couple of others, but this is probably the best:

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D70
22mm
f16
8 sec
ISO 200

Some of you may have already seen this one, as I entered it into the compo last night. The sky really was that colour! And the buildings really were lit up like that!

Comments appreciated (no judges, obviously). :)
 
I like both of them, nice lighting. :)

EDIT: Actualy, on the first one, is it me or does the sky look a bit strange to the right hand side? Looks a bit smudged or something?
 
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Zildjian said:
EDIT: Actualy, on the first one, is it me or does the sky look a bit strange to the right hand side? Looks a bit smudged or something?
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Yeah, it does. Cloning?

Nice pics otherwise though, Joe.
 
ashtray_head said:
I'd deffo be up for a meet the next time.... Just gimme a bit more notice!! :p
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Cool. Sorry about that, it was just on the offchance. I didnt mind goin by myself in the end.

I dont know if I will do the London/buildings/landscape thing as often in the near future - the motorsport season starts soon! F1 Testing at Silverstone on the 27th Feb will kick things off! :D
 
Joe T said:
the motorsport season starts soon! F1 Testing at Silverstone on the 27th Feb will kick things off! :D
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yeah I wanna go but will need to be careful with my holidays and I want to take my grandad as welll so I cant really go this month :(
 
ashtray_head said:
yeah I wanna go but will need to be careful with my holidays and I want to take my grandad as welll so I cant really go this month :(
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You on MSN mate? (mine is in my profile) :)
 
Both very nice shots, but both feel a little soft to me.
I think they could do with some careful sharpening to really "pop" out the detail in the architecture, which there is tons of.

Pillars in the second shot are awesome :D
 
Ive had anopther go at the pillars.

I sharpened it, ran it through PTLens and removed the newspaper stands. Better I think. :)

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That's much nicer :D

I was going to suggest binning the newspaper stands, but wasn't sure if that was a fantastic idea seeing your "smudge" mark above :o

Very nicely done, though :D
 
hoodmeister said:
That's much nicer :D

I was going to suggest binning the newspaper stands, but wasn't sure if that was a fantastic idea seeing your "smudge" mark above :o

Very nicely done, though :D
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Cheeky! :p

Thanks! :D
 
Second shot is very nice. Looks better without stands :)
I have played with it a bit (shadows, contrast, saturation) hope you dont mind :)
 
Zheka said:
Second shot is very nice. Looks better without stands :)
I have played with it a bit (shadows, contrast, saturation) hope you dont mind :)
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No worries mate. Looks good, more punchy. The reason I didnt take it that far is it starts to look more articifial than it does already! lol! :)
 
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