HDR
Here is an image i have taken in London on a cold 4am morning.
Westminster with Big ben clock face is an iconic view and a tourist hotspot, but at this hour not a sole around.
I hope that you enjoy and are having a great weekend.
Lee
With recently spending some time at the in-laws waiting for the baby to arrive, i have used the time to head out and about at sunrise
Above is an iPhone image of my location on the Thames.
Alarm call for 02:15hrs - and headed out, just a shame the weather did not really play ball, but thats landscape photography for you.
Below is the image created by the d-slr.
This is certainly a location ill revisit to try and capture an image of more what i had in my mind.
Thanks
Lee
15 minute exposure using Lee filters big stopper and circular polariser.
Hi, hope your keeping well and have had a good weekend.
Here are some images from the previous London landscape image that i have posted.
I wanted to show the images used to create the final image.
I clamped the camera down to the handrail using the Manfrotto Magic arm and using a cable release i rattled a few bracketed frames.
I have included the metadata on each image, but other then converting to jpg, they are straight from the camera and in the order the camera took them and i added to Nik softwares HDR efex pro 2.
Here is the first base image. In face i quite like this exposure but i personally prefer having the extra range to play with.
And finally this is the out put from the software. As you can see it has little punch, no halos. or even much contrast going on. But the key is to get a nice base to start with, and then bring this into photoshop and make it your own.
I have tried many different HDR software on the market and not one will you be able to click process- done.
But i do think that this is a good thing, no 2 images will ever be processed the same and so this way it makes you take your time and make something unique and more realistic.
Here is the final image.
Thanks.
Lee
Hi, how are you?
I hope that you are well, while I'm stuck out at work on the rig for a month....
Last week I took a trip to the new viewing platform in the Shard building- London.
72 floors high you get an incredible view of London.
You have to book in advance and pick your time slot, I was particular in that I wanted the sunset to dark.
After googling the timings I was happy that we would catch the setting sun, but just had to have our fingers crossed for the weather :0)
As you can see, we were so very lucky in the weather front, after so much snow and bad weather recently.
I wanted to give a couple of tips that i found so handy while shooting here.
and these tips will not only help if you fancy going up the Shard but I'm guessing 99.9% of tourist locations.
Tip 1
- The venue Tripod ban...
A lot of tourist venues have a tripod ban and so you are not allowed to enter with / or use one.
As you can see i over came this by using a Manfrotto magic arm, and super clamp.
The security observed me using this and did not bother in the slightest.
While using the clamp and magic arm, i treated it like a tripod and so was using my cable release to gain much longer shutter speeds.
Tip 2
- Don't for get your polariser filter.
To try and reduce the reflections you gain shooting through the glass, a circular polariser filter is not perfect, but cuts down the problem loads.
Nothing will stop the other members of public and their point and shoots, using the flash - still amazed at what they recon the on camera flash will light up.
That its, i can really recommend the Shard, it was a fantastic experience.
Keep in touch in the comments bar bellow...
Thanks
Lee
December i bought i brand new Volvo V50.
the previous car was a guzzler and so was fed up of paying through the nose to keep it on the road..... Que the volvo... and being an estate car its a true family work horse, loaded to the hilt with gear and getting away for weekends is fantastic.
Here are a few images of the car on a great rough location 50 metres from the house, plus some detail images.
These two images are a mock advert that i made.
This evening around 1600hrs the sun looked stunning, and so i grabbed my camera bag and headed out, to catch a sunset.
the sun had other views and finally set behind a huge cloud.
Here are the images i took, and so i hope that i did not waste my time.
This HDR is made up of around 54 images.
Another HDR image
This was lit by an oncoming car.
A play with car lights.
