Metropolis [Explored]

I hate the way flickr displays panoramas. This looks tiny doesn't it? It is actually quite big. So please view it large or in light box or whatever Flickr forces us to do now. Incidentally, I don't like the light box thing. It is good to have pictures on black, but I think it makes every picture look soft. Maybe it is just me.

 

Anyway, this is a composite of 3 pictures taken from the top of the Helaba Main Tower in Frankfurt, Germany. I thought you might like to see what the actual view was like, rather than just a load of bokeh. And I didn't want you all to think I am all about bokeh! :D

 

It was very lovely up there really. A 360 degree panorama would be amazing! I would like to have been a bit lower though, so that the building were more against the skyline, as I think they get a bit lost the the background from this angle. These were shot handheld at iso 3200 and a maximum shutter speed of 1/30 and I was cold and shivering. I also didn't have much time to perform RAW processing, sharpening and noise reduction. So these were stitched SOOC, then edited as jpegs in photoshop. So, they are not the best quality. But I like how they came out. Specially the one I have posted, which was 'colorized' using the Nik Colour Efex program which I am growing to love! I hope you like this. I will post a colour version in the comments which I didn't like quite as much.

 

To all the Americans out there, Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you are having a good day and have eaten plenty and caught up with relatives and other such things :)

 

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