Moving on a little further north from the location in the shot a few pictures ago this is Millwall Inner Dock immediately south of the Canary Wharf Financial Centre. It is next to the Crossharbour DLR Station. I have photographed here before but then the new Baltimore Tower was only part completed. This is a 45 storey high end apartment tower nearly 500 ft tall. The Tower does not look quite right. This is not lens distortion but the Tower is built to curve to one side and then curve to the other as it goes up. A little weird but it does display a tendency by architects in London to avoid the conventional and expected. The curves are more obvious at 90 degrees from this viewpoint. For this exact viewpoint which I liked best it was necessary to get on one of those metal walkways with lots of little holes and hanging above the water. I was surprised it wasn’t barred off. Putting the Tripod straight up was problematic so I lent it against the railing with 2 of the legs braced on the sort of floor. Shutter was released with a remote while being ready to catch the arrangement if needed. Near the base of the tower there can be seen the well known Lotus floating Chinese Restaurant.
The shot was taken with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20mm lens at 10 mm. The image was first processed with Photomatix 6 using Fusion Natural for a natural look. The next step was that I wanted to straighten the converging verticals. However there was not enough space at the top because on straightening the top of the tower would be lost. The solution was to extend the Canvas just at the top. Then select the top of the sky and use the free transform tool in Photoshop’s edit menu to extend the sky into the extra canvas. Then Filter – Lens Correction – Custom – vertical perspective to straighten verticals. Next Topaz Clarity for more detail. Then a fair bit of use of the heal and clone tools to remove 3 annoying cranes which are so numerous with all the new builds in this part of London. Saturation adjustment layers to get the colours just right. Also adjustment with a brightness adjustment layer to darken the sky a little.
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