All The Lights That Light The Way..........

A bit of plagiarism here from one of my favourite bands for the title, anyone care to guess the artist and song??

 

This is a picture that I’ve been meaning to take for a long time, but ‘Tower Bridge’ is about a 45 minute walk from where I work and I’m not a big fan of the London underground (although judging by some of my contacts photos of the tunnels and such like I should reacquaint myself with it ;-)), however about a month ago I decide to bite the bullet and take a trip there after work.

 

I took a two shots of light trails one was from the north bank and the other from the south bank; the one that’s been posted is from the south bank.

 

I tried a few exposures but wanted to do a really long exposure mainly so I could remove the people from the picture (this was during the backend of rush hour), so I used a ‘Lightcraft Workshop ND500’; filters have been causing of a little debate on one of my contacts photos. I think that the ‘LCW ND500’ is very good value for money and until I can find some cash for a better filter it fills the void nicely.

Then main reason why I posted this shot and not the one from the north bank was because of the leaf on the floor; I know that it’s small detail but I kind of like it…….. the simple things eh!!!!

 

My entry into the recoding images group, theme night time

 

 

****As a side note the LCW ND500 claims not to cause any colour cast........ but I've read that it can cause pictures to appear cold (a bias towards blue), and one of adjustments that I had to make in pp on this was to shift the white balance as the image was a little cold, but this was minimal!

 

 

 

Lens: Canon 10-22mm

Filter: Lightcraft Workshop ND500

AV f/4.5

TV 240 seconds

ISO 100

 

Press L to view large

 

Done