This is my first picture to be processed from London Open House on 19th and 20 September 2015. There is a great Atrium at the Angel Building, Islington with a black sculpture in the centre. It is called Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness by Ian McChesney. The shape of the piece was generated by allowing treacle to fall from a spoon and the resulting form is then inverted resulting in a point. The spoon at the base is formed from a seating area allowing me to lie on in to take this shot.
The number visiting was quite small thus avoiding the dreaded queues so common at Open House . After viewing the Atrium from the ground floor there were regular tours taking the lift to view it from the top floor and to take in the view from the roof. The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 10mm.. In the camera 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. The last image was used in Camera Raw to create 2 additional brighter exposures so 5 in all. Outputted in Photomatix using contrast optimiser preset for a natural look.
My first edit was to bring more light into the foreground than I could get with Photomatix by adding the plus 2 EV image as a new layer, masking it off and then adding it back over parts of the foreground with a white brush at varying opacity. More detail was brought in using Topaz Clarity and noise reduced using Topaz DeNoise.
Conversion to mono was done with Topaz B&W Effects 2 using a contrast detail preset.
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This was taken yesterday in the new bridge to the partly opened Crossrail Station building for Canary Wharf. It was opened in May so I am a bit late to the party as it is now the latest go to place for London Photographers. Understandably so with its sleek lines and shapes designed by Norman Fosters the design pushing London Architects. The Crossrail project is Europe’s biggest construction project, expected to cost £15 billion to build a new Underground line from East to West and due to open in 2018, looking forward to it! For the bridge it was hard to find a viewpoint which had not been done before so I went for a Fisheye view, placing the camera on the ground and getting it lined up with the overhead light. It is not very busy at the moment and it is easy to get empty shots but I wanted people in this one.
The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 10mm.. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. Outputted in Photomatix using contrast optimiser for a natural look.
More detail was brought in using Topaz Adjust Clarity and noise reduced using Topaz DeNoise.
I increased overall brightness with a brightness contrast adjustment layer with selections used to exclude the windows from the greater brightness.
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Another shot of the Adams Plaza Bridge to the part finished Canary Wharf Crossrail Station. This is taken from inside the Station looking back towards Canary Wharf. Despite many pictures being taken very few other pictures have used this reflection. It breaks many compositional rules especially with the man being right on the edges of the picture but personally I thought it works
The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 16mm.. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. Outputted in Photomatix using fusion real estate preset for a natural look.
My first edit was to bring more light into the foreground especially the tunnel area than I could get with Photomatix by adding the plus 2 EV image as a new layer, masking it off and then adding it back over parts of the foreground with a white brush at varying opacity. More detail was brought in using Topaz Clarity and noise reduced using Topaz DeNoise.
Decreased overall brightness with a brightness contrast adjustment layer with a brush used on a layer mask to apply the adjustment only to darken the roof area.
Conversion to mono was done with Topaz B&W Effects 2 using a contrast detail preset.
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This is a shot of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, London taken on a London day trip on the 10th August. The building was the tallest in the UK until the Shard usurped its title in 2010. Although the picture looks to be a long exposure it was actually faked in the processing . Setting up a tripod would have been pointless as the Security Guards have a habit of pouncing in that area.
The picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle lens at 15mm.
There was some quite involved processing using HDR, Topaz filters and Photoshop. The mono conversion was done with Topaz B&W Effects. There is a lot of detailed control possible with this once you get out of the presets and use the adjustments.
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Another shot of the Adams Plaza Bridge to the part finished Canary Wharf Crossrail Station. This is taken from inside the Tunnel/Bridge looking towards the Crossrail Station. I am fairly sure that nobody else has given the bridge this treatment with a zoom effect applied using Topaz Lens Effects. The people at the end were ideally placed.
The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 10mm. No HDR this time with the processing starting out with some RAW editing including Recovery and Clarity.
I improved the symmetry using the straighten and crop tools. Topaz Clarity was used for more detail, next the image was adjusted in Topaz lens effects to add a zoom blur. The zoom centre was fixed on the people in the distance. The effect was applied on a duplicate layer and a layer mask. A brush was then used to exclude more of the people in the distance.
Many pictures of the bridge are presented in mono as there is not a lot of colour in the original. However I wanted to keep a touch of colour. I added a bit more with Topaz Glow Neon effect on a layer reduced to just a touch of it left by reducing the layer opacity down to 15%
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