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I last photographed Bank Station's travelator -- or "Trav-O-Lator" as it was originally known -- two years ago. The moving walkways inside the 250ft sloping tunnel, which connect passengers from street level to the Waterloo & City Line's platforms, began construction in June 1957. Sixty years on, the design still has a sleek and futuristic aspect to it, although there's now also a certain retro element to the concept. The tunnel is also showing its age: several of the overhead lights were out on the morning I visited, and scratches and chipped paint which I'd noticed on my last visit were now even more visible. For me, this adds to the industrial and dystopian atmosphere of the tunnel, although in some cases I felt they could be a potential distraction and would need attention in post-processing.
My aim with this take on the tunnel was a less gritty finish and with more emphasis on the tunnel's light and leading lines. The vibrant colour in the foreground stop sign always seemed to be one of the most striking aspects of the tunnel, and I wanted to contrast this with the cool metallic tones of London's underground with a tighter crop that would focus less on the tunnel's vanishing point and more on the stop sign and the light and patterns around it.
I captured nine bracketed exposures while the camera was resting on the edge of the walkway, blending all but the brightest two exposures in Photoshop using luminosity masks, and taking care to preserve the highlights within the lights themselves and within the posters along the tunnel where the light was reflecting. I then used the Pen Tool to create selections of the lights that were out, flipped the corresponding light on the left or the right (as well as the reflection of the lights along the walkway's metal surface), and masked these in. Next, I spent a little time cleaning up chipped paint on the stop sign, and removed the speakers mounted along the walls in the tunnel's foreground, which added a certain character to the architecture but were not mounted symmetrically and which I felt would pull viewers' eyes from the centre of the image.
The next phase of the workflow involved creating selections of the tunnel's walkway, its walls and air vents, the panels between the overhead lights, and the stop sign. I then gently blended in my brighter and darker exposures to these areas using a mixture of linear, radial and reflective gradient masks, emphasising the light falling onto the stop sign and the lettering inside the sign, as well as the contrast between the bright walls and the dark shades of the posters along the tunnel.
Colour-grading the image was largely about finding the right shade of red for the stop sign -- adding a hint of magenta and toning down the yellow -- and then finding the most striking shade of blue-ish cyan for the tunnel's walls to complement this red. This was achieved using a combination of Colour Balance and Hue/Saturation adjustments, along with a Gradient Map and the colour channels via Curves layers. I then extracted the tunnel's walls and walkways and used Silver Efex Pro to lower their midtone and shadow structure, setting this adjustment to Luminosity and giving the image the softer and more ethereal finish I was aiming for. The grit and detail are still there, but the final image hopefully captures the drama and geometry of London's underground, and sixty years on, perhaps also something of the aspirations which the Trav-O-Lator's designers must have had.
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2022.08.20
Rotterdam / Maasvlakte
AIS Name MED POLARIS
Typ Schub/Schlepper
Flagge Netherlands
IMO 9668037
MMSI 244830924
Rufzeichen PCBI
Baujahr 2015
Länge 28 m
Breite 10 m
Tiefgang 4.9 m / 0.1 m / 20.0
m Avg/Min/Max
Geschwindigkeit 13.8 kn /Max
Eigengewicht 145 Tonnen
Bruttotonnage 294
The night sky provides fascinating patterns and colours. The lighthouse at Grosnez, Jersey is situated in the foreground.
Also known as the Polaris Flare, these dust clouds are dispersed about Polaris and in the constellation of Ursa Minor.
This was my first photograph using a Rokinon 135 mm f/2 lens wide open at f/2. The lens will let in a lot of light which allowed me to reduce my exposure time, but suffers from very high vignetting when used wide open. I will try to take a photograph using a similar composition with the lens stopped down to f/2.8.
My Canon EOS Ra and lens were mounted on a Vixen Polarie with counterweight (see pictures of the setup below). 60 x 1 minute exposures at ISO 1600 were stacked and processed in Pixinsight.
The night sky was mesmerizing last night! I always seem to have memorable Rainier weather on August 11th. (The lights from the base of the mountain is at Paradise, Mt. Rainier National Park.)
Nikon d810 | Zeiss 25mm | 962 sec. | f/2 | ISO 64
A long exposure of the Milky Way over the Mount Aiguille in the French Alps. One single RAW of 15 minutes :)
@ Paradise Culebra Island in PR. This is my first Polaris composition!!
30 minutes exposure
F/3.5
10 mm
ESC Online Baja TT Montes Alentejanos - FMP SS1 SSV.
Driver / Navigator: Tiago GUERREIRO / Carlos PAULINO
SSV: POLARIS PRO R
Polaris, he always knows north. If you know him, you can't get lost even in the darkest night.
Polaris, auch bekannt als der Polarstern, er weißt immer nach Norden. Wer ihn kennt, kann sich auch in der dunkelsten Nacht nicht verlaufen.
Langzeitbelichtung von 32 Minuten
exposure time 32min
Samyang 14mm f/2,8 @ f/5,6
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- my calendar 2020 -
The Mineral Resources ore train from Mt Walton, 035 hauled by locos MRL004,MRL001 are about to cross PM9 SCT at Lake Julia on 19-12-14.
The MRL class and hoppers were all relatively new with MRL004 entering service on 7-7-14
"Polaris" I have always been drawn to this place to shoot the aurora lights. Unfortunately the wind messed up the reflection but the lights couldn't have aligned better with the subject
3x Vertirama stitched together manually
D7000 et 10/24mm nikkor .
Pffff temps pourri, quitte à voir de l'eau tomber du ciel , j'aimerai autant de la neige.... :-)
ESC Online Baja TT Montes Alentejanos - FMP SS1 SSV.
Driver / Navigator: Arnaldo MONTEIRO / José DUARTE
Team: Mundimat Racing Team
SSV: POLARIS RZR PRO
So today i went to the place i told you guys about on my last post.
I went there with my cousin and it was so much fun!
Actually i didnt make the pictures i had planned because the the sky was super cloudy.
But good thing there are these little monkeys there and they totally saved my day (maybe ill post their pictures later).
They got super close to me like 1 feet away only and let me photograph them at will! :-)
Besides that, i made some other pictures and this is one of them.
I love that place, the city is called Niteroi and its like my very favorite place in the world!
Cheers,
Raffy
View On Black to sail away
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The shot
Standard 1 exposure in RAW/ISO 100 at f/5.6 using Sigma 70-300mm lens, handheld.
Photoshop
-Turned the photo B&W.
-Added one layer mask of "curves" to increase the contrast.
-Sharpened using unsharp mask
Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8oj1JbgsYQ&feature=related
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All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
About two hours of real time in twelve seconds.
The sound is that of the sea waves I heard during the shoot.
tree of polaris
fickle axis of north sky
now but emptiness
beyond your wizened gesture...
the sun is risen
the firmament is shifted
the cosmos yet hums
your graceful reign is ending
soon another star
perchance yet another tree
Precession of the Earth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlVgEoZDjok
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