Four bridges in double time
This is the Millenium bridge, with Southwark bridge, Cannon St rail bridge (with the train on it), and Tower bridge in the background. I saw the possibility of this shot while taking some of the earlier photos of Blackfriars bridge, but it clearly required a long telephoto to get the effect.
I went back the next week with a 300mm, but it was still too short - it seemed to need a 400-500, not natively achievable on Fuji or Olympus bodies. Hmmm. To get the extra length, I bought a Metabones Nikon G to 4/3rds adapter - this has aperture adjustment in the adapter so works with G lenses. Paired with my 70-300G Full Frame Nikon zoom, this gave up to 600mm on an Olympus 4/3rds. The adapter (which is beautiful) took over a week to arrive, but finally I was able to go back and run the shot properly yesterday.
zfzThe focal length is about 450mm, with the bridges, walkers and sky exposed at about 1/80, and the water for 3.5 minutes. The overall camera/lens combo weighs 1.5Kg, but I was able to mount it on a Gorillapod Focus GP8 and get
excellent stability. This top end Gorillapod is excellent by the way, made out of aluminium, not plastic, and very strong.
Finally, I aligned, masked and merged the images in Photoshop, and then did local adjustments in Lightroom.
Four bridges in double time
This is the Millenium bridge, with Southwark bridge, Cannon St rail bridge (with the train on it), and Tower bridge in the background. I saw the possibility of this shot while taking some of the earlier photos of Blackfriars bridge, but it clearly required a long telephoto to get the effect.
I went back the next week with a 300mm, but it was still too short - it seemed to need a 400-500, not natively achievable on Fuji or Olympus bodies. Hmmm. To get the extra length, I bought a Metabones Nikon G to 4/3rds adapter - this has aperture adjustment in the adapter so works with G lenses. Paired with my 70-300G Full Frame Nikon zoom, this gave up to 600mm on an Olympus 4/3rds. The adapter (which is beautiful) took over a week to arrive, but finally I was able to go back and run the shot properly yesterday.
zfzThe focal length is about 450mm, with the bridges, walkers and sky exposed at about 1/80, and the water for 3.5 minutes. The overall camera/lens combo weighs 1.5Kg, but I was able to mount it on a Gorillapod Focus GP8 and get
excellent stability. This top end Gorillapod is excellent by the way, made out of aluminium, not plastic, and very strong.
Finally, I aligned, masked and merged the images in Photoshop, and then did local adjustments in Lightroom.