A trip to London

IPClark

Hi All, I made my first post in the Wildlife section. Very impressed with all the work I've seen on these forums and Smugmug. Anyway, I hope you don't mind my joining you all

Here are a few shots I took during a recent trip to London.

A couple of night time shots looking towards St. Pauls cathedral and of course the London Eye





Tower Bridge



Unfortunately, I didn't get a huge amount of shots due to weather being rubbish most of the time. Hopefully, I'll be able to post a lot more in future travelogues.

mackidbrendan

is it just me, or are the links broken?

squiddd

the link is broken for me too

IPClark

Hi, thanks for letting me know. You should be able to view them now. I'd not enabled external links in Smugmug on the particular galleries these images were in.

Chrissiebeez_NL

nice shots!

the first has a bit of camera shake though. nothing serious but it takes away the sharpness

keep posting, like your work!

IPClark

Thanks again Chris.

Appreciate the compliments

swintonphoto

Lovely images! London is my favorite place in the world. You did London proud with these images!

mackidbrendan

wow, those are some awsome pics man great work.
if you took picture 3 in raw you should try and make it HDR, i think it would look cool!

Moogle Pepper

Wow!! I like the second one!!

Keep posting pictures from London!

IPClark

mackidbrendan wrote:

wow, those are some awsome pics man great work.
if you took picture 3 in raw you should try and make it HDR, i think it would look cool!

I have to admit, there is actually a little bit of HDR tonemapping on that 3rd shot . The original was taken with a Circular polariser on to bring out as much blue in what was a pale blue sky. I then Under exposed by 2 stops and over exposed by 2 stops before merging them in Dynamic Photo HDR.

I did desaturate it too. A rather moody result I think

mackidbrendan

awsome
i really like them good work

squiddd

Great pictures!
The third one, the color is so rich that I thought it is a HDR picture at first.
Edit: alright, I did not notice your following post, so it is HDR

IPClark

Hehe, yeah. The original is on my Smugmug gallery under Landmarks

javierplumey

That third shot is great. Leave it in color, for me the b&w conversion doesn't do much. I'm curious about the original too, since I have not done any HDR work at all.

IPClark

Here's the original

1/100 @ F6.3, ISO 100 with CPL on to enhance the blues. As you can see, there's not a massive amount of adjustment.

i_worship_the_King

I like the series (particularly #2), but a quick question. Did you clone out a parking meter or something in the reflection?

IPClark

i_worship_the_King wrote:

I like the series (particularly #2), but a quick question. Did you clone out a parking meter or something in the reflection?

Thank you

I've not cloned anything from the shots (to be honest I'm not very good at that stuff hehe). In which image where you referring to? )

i_worship_the_King

the second one... I guess the building interacting with the waves does some funny refracting and reflecting to fool my brain into thinking it was a meter of some sort.

Great shots... I hope I get to make it to the city of chefs this summer

IPClark

i_worship_the_King wrote:

the second one... I guess the building interacting with the waves does some funny refracting and reflecting to fool my brain into thinking it was a meter of some sort.

Great shots... I hope I get to make it to the city of chefs this summer

Ahh I think I can see where you mean, within the halo of light? Yeah that's the building within the Eye.

The Thames that night was actually quite choppy. Fortunately the 55 second exposure rectifies that but didn't allow for a clean reflection