This was taken yesterday in the new bridge to the partly opened Crossrail Station building for Canary Wharf. It was opened in May so I am a bit late to the party as it is now the latest go to place for London Photographers. Understandably so with its sleek lines and shapes designed by Norman Fosters the design pushing London Architects. The Crossrail project is Europe’s biggest construction project, expected to cost £15 billion to build a new Underground line from East to West and due to open in 2018, looking forward to it! For the bridge it was hard to find a viewpoint which had not been done before so I went for a Fisheye view, placing the camera on the ground and getting it lined up with the overhead light. It is not very busy at the moment and it is easy to get empty shots but I wanted people in this one.

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 contrast optimiser for a natural look.
More detail was brought in using Topaz Adjust Clarity and noise reduced using Topaz DeNoise.
I increased overall brightness with a brightness contrast adjustment layer with selections used to exclude the windows from the greater brightness.