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A City Sleeps
I'm always looking for interesting angles when it comes to photographing this bridge. This is one I haven't tried before. Taken on London's South Bank just outside the Tate Modern the weird and wonderful structure helping to frame the shot is of course The Millennium Bridge.
Despite what the Exif info says, (it was an hour off), I took this shot at just gone 3.00 am in the morning. London was asleep with just the odd reveller wandering past. Even the ebbing Thames seemed to be asleep. Being the shortest night of the year it was already light when I eventually got home at 5.00 a.m having walked about 15 miles during the London Photo 24 event. Who says we don't suffer for our art :- )
This is one of the first times I've used the Trigger Trap Long Exposure gizmo which runs off a smartphone app. It uses your cameras bulb mode to brackets shots and communicates via a small dedicated lead. The only limitation of this cool piece of kit is that the shortest shutter speed is 1 sec, a limitation of the camera not the app. You wouldn't be able to use it during daylight hours unless you had a ND filter but at night it comes into its own. My longest exposure was something like a couple of minutes. Unfortunately the exif info doesn't record the bracket durations as it's all done on the phone but the user interface allows you to pick the number of brackets the ev steps and the mid exposure.
7 exp tripod mounted hdr +3 to -3 taken in bulb mode with with the Trigger Trap long exposure HDR app. Post processing in acr, photomatix, photoshop, topaz de-noise and topaz clarity. Fuji X-E2 with 18-55 f2.8-4 @ 18mm, f11, ISO 800, exposure 1sec to well over two minutes for the last bracket.
A City Sleeps
I'm always looking for interesting angles when it comes to photographing this bridge. This is one I haven't tried before. Taken on London's South Bank just outside the Tate Modern the weird and wonderful structure helping to frame the shot is of course The Millennium Bridge.
Despite what the Exif info says, (it was an hour off), I took this shot at just gone 3.00 am in the morning. London was asleep with just the odd reveller wandering past. Even the ebbing Thames seemed to be asleep. Being the shortest night of the year it was already light when I eventually got home at 5.00 a.m having walked about 15 miles during the London Photo 24 event. Who says we don't suffer for our art :- )
This is one of the first times I've used the Trigger Trap Long Exposure gizmo which runs off a smartphone app. It uses your cameras bulb mode to brackets shots and communicates via a small dedicated lead. The only limitation of this cool piece of kit is that the shortest shutter speed is 1 sec, a limitation of the camera not the app. You wouldn't be able to use it during daylight hours unless you had a ND filter but at night it comes into its own. My longest exposure was something like a couple of minutes. Unfortunately the exif info doesn't record the bracket durations as it's all done on the phone but the user interface allows you to pick the number of brackets the ev steps and the mid exposure.
7 exp tripod mounted hdr +3 to -3 taken in bulb mode with with the Trigger Trap long exposure HDR app. Post processing in acr, photomatix, photoshop, topaz de-noise and topaz clarity. Fuji X-E2 with 18-55 f2.8-4 @ 18mm, f11, ISO 800, exposure 1sec to well over two minutes for the last bracket.