Westminster Bridge

I’ve had to dig through the achieves for this, not had much time for photography over the last few weeks and the weather has been poor!

 

I tried taking a picture similar to this at the beginning of last year but I was only using the kit lens for commuting back then and although the kit lens that came with the camera produces reasonable pictures it was about as useful as a chocolate fire guard when it came to lens flare.

 

So I decided to bide my time and wait until I got some better kit, I was in two minds whether to use the Tamron 17-50 or the Canon 10-22 as there are occasions where I find the ultra wide angle can make a picture look flat.

Anyway I decided to go for the Canon with the ‘Light Craft Workshop ND500’ on the end so that I could get a really long exposure.

 

I ended up blending 2 pictures in post for this, the bulk of the image is made up of 4 minute exposure and I also used a 60 second exposure so I could keep the highlights on ‘Big Ben’ and ‘Westminster Bridge’ in check. I can’t believe how empty this place looks considering it was the backend of rush hour and there were plenty of commuters/tourists milling around!

 

My entry into the recoding images group, theme night time

 

***Martin Turner suggested that I go for a square crop on this, and I tended to agree with him, the main reason why I didn't post this originally was because the LHS of the picture bugged me. Anyway I looked at square cropping from the RHS but it didn't look that great so I went for a 4/3 crop instead (which if anyone knows about TV standards they'll know that this is the same aspect as a standard def transmission). I think that this looks better than the original............ what about you?***

 

 

Lens: Canon 10-22mm

Filter: Lightcraft Workshop ND500

AV f/4.0

TV 240 seconds and 60 seconds

ISO 100

Press L to view large

Done