This is taken at No 1 Poultry, an office and retail building located at the junction of Poultry and Queen Victoria Street, by the Bank of England, in the City of London. It was opened in 1997.

The image was taken from the basement area which has a few shops and cafes and an entrance to Bank Underground Station. Nothing special, until you look up. I was especially struck by the beautiful coloured windows in the offices above.

The picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20mm lens at 10mm. Taken handheld. 3 raw images 2EV spacing with an additional 4th and brighter exposure created in Camera Raw.. Outputted in Photomatix on fusion real estate settings for a natural look for an HDR.

I used Topaz DeNoise and then Topaz Clarity
In Photoshop I used a clarity effect using unsharp mask with settings of 32 amount and 32 radius. A slight vignette was applied using the elliptical marquee tool with a large feather and brightness adjustment.

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