Millennium Bridge to St Paul’s - a photo on Flickriver

My latest London visit was Last Saturday 2nd December. I led a group of 15 from Bognor Regis Camera Club for an Architecture and Night Photography trip round the City of London. This was also my first shoot with my new Camera a Sony Alpha 68 bought a week ago. This shot was taken on the South Bank by the Millennium Bridge looking towards St Paul’s Cathedral. The bridge was designed to line up perfectly with the Cathedral Dome.

The new camera was a little overdue. My trusty Sony A700 was first released in 2007 and bought second hand in 2012 while the A68 was released in 2016. The Camera takes the same lenses and is a crop sensor though with much higher resolution and far better focusing. One problem I had to resolve was that as I use Photoshop CS5 the Camera Raw available cannot recognise the cameras files. As I was determined not to be forced by Adobe into their subscription system another RAW editor was required. A little research turned up a little known RAW editor, Capture One, which is better than Camera RAW which is increasingly used by professionals. Even better is that it is free for Sony users though it costs £250 for other file types. It also does HDR type editing and a catalogue system similar to Lightroom. I wanted a simpler workflow for single images and found that I could use the right click menu to open a single RAW file, process it, export as a TIFF and then edit further in Photoshop

The picture was taken on a tripod with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 17mm. No HDR but one image RAW processed in Capture One including Dynamic range editing. Then processed in Photoshop include Topaz DeNose and Adjust.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Waterloo (show map)

Taken on: December 2, 2017

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Camera: Sony ILCA-68, f/14.0, 10 sec, 17mm (=25mm), ISO 640 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony ILCA-68
Lens:	28-80mm F3.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/14.0
Exposure Time:	10
Focal Length:	17mm (35mm equivalent: 25mm)
ISO:	640
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows
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