A shot from this years London Open House taken last Sunday. I led a group from our Local Camera Club to 5 Buildings in all. One Bishops Square our first visit was definitely the highlight and this view was the highlight of the highlight. The light installation is Jason Bruges Studio’s 'Pixel Cloud'. It can be found inside the north atrium of law firm Allen & Overy’s office building in Bishops Square, London. It is a 3d matrix of 624 polycarbonate globes which span eight storeys. Each 120mm globe is fitted with 24 LEDs and can be controlled independently allowing for light and colour changes. The lights react in real-time to changes in environmental conditions broadcast from the worldwide network of Allen & Overy offices.

This view is from the walkway which crosses the Atrium about 2 floors up. I first visited this building at Open House a year ago but had not tried this diagonal composition. I gave it the title as it suited a dark Sci-Fi film especially with its digital look. It was notable that the camera captured more of the colours than the eye, especially with the darker exposures taken for HDR.

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. I created a 4th image using a RAW adjustment for a plus 4 EV image to bring more light inside the building. Outputted in Photomatix using Detail Enhancer. Noise was reduced using Topaz DeNoise. More detail was brought in using Topaz Clarity. A Hue Saturation adjustment layer was used to bring the reds a little and bring down the blues and greens.