London Bridge To The Shard Night View

This was another one taken on my last London visit late November. This was a trip I organised and led for the Bognor Regis Camera Club. This was called London Architecture and Night Photography and 12 took part. I had discovered this high viewpoint when researching the remains of the City Pedway or high pedestrian walkways. One of these leads from Monument to the River Bank to this public viewpoint with views of both London Bridge and Tower Bridge. It is also accessed via concrete stairs from the Thames Path a short way east of London Bridge

I think this image really demonstrates how a city comes alive at night with the lights, reflections and colour. This was especially so on this day when daylight was thick cloud and very flat light. There was some more interest with the bus light trails going across the bridge. Looking at the fastest exposure of the 3 taken for HDR there were 3 buses going across the bridge. For the longer 0EV image the buses had blurred together. When processing for HDR in Photomatix I selected the top of the bridge as an area having movement and directed the software to use the 0EV image for that area when blending the 3 images.

The picture was taken with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 zoom at 13mm. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. The picture was enhanced with HDR processing using contrast optimiser setting in Photomatix for a natural look; Topaz clarit was used for more detail and then Topaz Denoise. In Photoshop Edit-Transform- Distort was used to straighten the Shard and other buildings which were in the original leaning over due to the wide angle and perspective distortion cause by the cameras upward angle. The building on the left of the bridge didn’t look quite right still so I selected it to apply the edit only to that part and then used Transform – Skew to correct it. 2 cranes were removed with the heal and clone tools just because I hate cranes

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

Taken on: November 24, 2018

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Camera: Sony ILCA-68, f/7.1, 3.2 sec, 13mm (=19mm), ISO 250 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony ILCA-68
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	3.2
Focal Length:	13mm (35mm equivalent: 19mm)
ISO:	250
Exposure Bias:	-0.3 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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