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Various London Photographs taken in Spring of this year around the North/South Bank/ Docklands area of The river Thames. Places included are The Shard, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Old Billingsgate Market, Royal Victoria Docks and The South bank.
Some photographs taken last night walking from The Thames Barrier along the Thames Path up to the o2. Strangely the weather was not on our side even though the weather forecast was for no cloud or wind and we had lots of both! Even so we managed to get a few shots and hopefully will get more later in the week. Slight Problems with o2 Security staff trying to stop us taking photos on Public property. Security can only stop you if photographs are taken on private land not public!!
Some more images of London captured recently. The City Skyline photos where taken from Primrose Hill. Battersea Power Station/Nine Elms redevelopment and Albert Bridge photos were taken along Chelsea Embankment and the St Pauls/Blackfriars bridge were taken from near the Oxo tower.
Recently i attempted to photograph Tower Bridge at night. Originally the idea was to shoot it with a cruise ship going underneath it with the draw bridge up. Unfortunately the cruise ship went out backwards going down river and just did not look right for the photo so I abandoned the idea but stayed to get a night shot with the ever changing city skyline in the background. Two versions with different light.
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I got this shot of the BT Tower last night. Taken from a great spot in Regents Park. Cloudy but surprisingly I managed to get a half decent shot. I will be taking a few more shots Thursday from a different location in Primrose Hill to see if i can get a different shot. Watch this Blog!!
The Thames Barrier at night with Canary Wharf and the o2 in the background. f/8.0 37Sec 100 iso
So Monday evening I took a trip to photograph The Thames Barrier. In fact it was the first time i had been there but was pleasantly surprised on what a great location the Barriers are set in as well as being a very quiet location in which to set up my Camera and tripod and wait for the Sun to go down. Normally people see you set up and either start talking to me or start taking photographs over my shoulder thinking I must be in the best photo location spot ever……. but in this location it was very quiet. Just got approached by a security man as I was on Private property enquiring as to whether i was a pro or not. sorry had to lie which i hate to do but i would not have got the shot i wanted if i didn’t tell him a little white lie.
As the sun went down and the lights of the barrier got powered up I started to see and explore the best speed timings for the shots I thought I wanted. I used a Lee ND 0.6 Grad filter on the water as well as a Lee Tobacco hard filter to give the sky a darker appearance as well as trying to get the slowest shutter speed i could in order to get that blurry water effect.
I am pretty happy with the three images i got at different angles and the two images of the tunnel shots at the end of the barrier. Myself and my friend and fellow photographer Alex also had a look around other great possible locations on the other side of the barrier and decided we would have to return to shoot other angles of the Barrier as well as Canary Wharf.
Watch out for more images as and when we do them.
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