London

Taken 2-Mar-15

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Photo Info

Dimensions5313 x 3530

Original file size8.54 MB

Image typeJPEG

Color spacesRGB

Date taken2-Mar-15 15:21

Shooting Conditions

Camera makeSONY

Camera modelDSLR-A700

Focal length12 mm

Focal length (35mm)18 mm

Max lens aperturef/4

Exposure1/60 at f/5.6

FlashNot fired, compulsory mode

Exposure bias0 EV

Exposure modeAuto bracket

Exposure prog.Aperture priority

ISO speedISO 500

Metering modeSpot

Digital zoom0x

Tulip Stairs Spiral To The Eye

Another composition of the Tulip Stairs this time taken from higher up. The stairs are at the National Maritime Museum and Queens House, Greenwich. This is justly called the best spiral staircase in London. Built in 1610 it is one of the world’s earliest examples of a cantilever stair with no central core support.
The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20mm lens at 12 mm. 3 raw images 2EV spacing. Opened in Photoshop first and each image noise reduced with Noiseware Pro and saved as tiffs.

The picture was enhanced with HDR processing using fusion real estate. I also used Topaz DeNoise and Topaz Clarity. The mono conversion was done with Topaz BW Effects. Adjustment layers in Photoshop were used to bring up brightness.

Duplicate layer with mask to apply extra sharpening and contrast with low amount and high radius using Unsharp mask (Clarity Effect) The settings were 33 amount and 33 radius. A layer mask was used to exclude this effect from some highlights.