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Keywords:Architecture, Building, Library, London, Canada Water, Europe, GB, UK, Great Britain, Lighting, Lights, Line, Lines, detail, Spiral, Spiral Staircase, Staircase, Stairs, wood, panels, banister, elegant, curves, wooden, Urban, sigma, Sony, pic, dslr, topaz, dslra700, wide angle, photoshop, looking down, down, grain
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Dimensions5340 x 3560
Original file size18.9 MB
Image typeJPEG
Color spacesRGB
Date taken16-Mar-15 16:10
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Camera makeSONY
Camera modelDSLR-A700
Focal length10 mm
Focal length (35mm)15 mm
Max lens aperturef/4
Exposure1/8 at f/5.6
FlashNot fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias+2 EV
Exposure modeAuto bracket
Exposure prog.Aperture priority
ISO speedISO 800
Metering modeCenter-weighted average
Digital zoom0x
Spiral In Wood Canada Water

Spiral In Wood Canada Water

Time for another Spiral Staircase. I took this one at Canada Water Library in March last year and never got round to posting it. I did however use it as an illustration in my book Understand Your Camera of the problems with always using Auto White Balance. In the original because of mixed daylight and artificial light the wood came out a sickly yellow. I corrected the White Balance in the RAW editing to get the natural tones of the wood. The Library is across the road from the Canada Water Tube Station on the Jubilee Line.

I also decided to post this now because I have been working through the List with a map of London Spiral Stairs prepared by Sean Batten which I have not previously bagged. See https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zGBl9m2NaoaU.kUNHdyvugwUA&usp=sharing
This is only a one storey spiral but it is really made by the deep well and wood

One image edited in RAW. I then edited with Topaz using Topaz Denoise to remove a small amount of noise and then brought up detail with Topaz Clarity. More punch with a clarity effect using unsharp mask 31 amount and 31 radius limited with a layer mask to the nearer areas of wood.