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. I first visited this building last year. This view is from the Basement level looking up at a catwalk where people can view the Pixel Cloud. This is a light sculpture by Greyworld, a group of London based artists, displayed in the north atrium of this building. The Architects of the building were by Foster and Partners' and it is home to the law firm Allen & Overy. I have to admit to one cheat here in that there were originally 2 pairs of feet above and I added the photographically important 3rd pair by copying the upper ones in from another image.

This was an example of a building doing Open House really well though it does have the benefit of plenty of space. The tour was self guided with arrows pointing the way and staff placed at strategic points. The result was no queue. There were several large Atriums and a roof terrace and cafe with views over the City. We spent an hour and 50 minutes in the building so a lot more to come. The building deserves to be better known but the lack of crowds was welcome.

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. Outputted in Photomatix using Fusion Real Estate preset for a natural look.

With buildings like this with so many lines there is considerable difficulty in getting everything lined up straight and symmetrical especially handheld. I made corrections using Photoshop Transform Distort and skew plus a crop. More detail was brought in using Topaz Clarity and noise reduced using Nik Define.