Another shot of the Adams Plaza Bridge to the part finished Canary Wharf Crossrail Station. This is taken from inside the Station looking back towards Canary Wharf. Despite many pictures being taken very few other pictures have used this reflection. It breaks many compositional rules especially with the man being right on the edges of the picture but personally I thought it works

The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 16mm.. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. Outputted in Photomatix using fusion real estate preset for a natural look.

My first edit was to bring more light into the foreground especially the tunnel area than I could get with Photomatix by adding the plus 2 EV image as a new layer, masking it off and then adding it back over parts of the foreground with a white brush at varying opacity. More detail was brought in using Topaz Clarity and noise reduced using Topaz DeNoise.

Decreased overall brightness with a brightness contrast adjustment layer with a brush used on a layer mask to apply the adjustment only to darken the roof area.

Conversion to mono was done with Topaz B&W Effects 2 using a contrast detail preset.