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Taken 2-Mar-15

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Keywords:uk, england, gb, britain, london, urban, light, lights, shine, metal, metallic, structure, symmetry, line, frame, city, cityscape, city of London, capital, sky, square mile, londres, metropolis, building, Lloyds, Lloyds of London, lime street, lime, willis, willis building, street, perspective, geometry, topaz, Photomatix, mono, black and white, wide angle, lens, sony, sigma, Photoshop, a700, sony alpha, architecture, up, straight up, long exposure, LE, clouds, modern, skyscraper

Photo Info

Dimensions5340 x 3560

Original file size7.52 MB

Image typeJPEG

Color spacesRGB

Date taken2-Mar-15 13:36

Shooting Conditions

Camera makeSONY

Camera modelDSLR-A700

Focal length10 mm

Focal length (35mm)15 mm

Max lens aperturef/4

Exposure57s at f/13

FlashNot fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias0 EV

Exposure modeManual

Exposure prog.Manual

ISO speedISO 160

Metering modeSpot

Digital zoom0x

Metropolis at Lloyds

This is a shot of the Lloyds Building in the City of London taken on a London day trip last Monday 2nd March. On the left is the Willis Building. It was a very windy day though mainly sunny. While walking to this location I got a good buffeting as the wind was channelled between the skyscrapers. Setting up a tripod would have been pointless so I used a handy flat topped post to put the Camera on pointing up. I used a wireless shutter release. I used a 10 stop BW Neutral Density filter resulting in 57 seconds and plenty of cloud movement with the wind strength.

The picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle lens at 10mm.

This was my first try at low key architecture long exposure mono and there was some quite involved processing using RAW, Topaz filters and Photoshop levels and curves.

Full details of the processing together with before and after images are on my Blog see http://edwinjonesphotography.com/blog/2015/3/metropolis-at-lloyds