Tower Bridge Lift

[Stan]

We had a day in London yesterday with tickets to visit the Fenchurch Street Sky Garden at 10.45. Found that the Tower Bridge lifting times for the day were 10 am and 11 am so thought it might work well to capture from a height. However although a very bright day after shooting through glass at an angle the colour version was very flat so tried a mono conversion processed with Nik

Stan

[ColytonJohn]

Re: Tower Bridge Lift

Nice viewpoint Stan and very lucky to see the bridge open. It's also a good subject for mono. However, my experience with Nik (Silver Efex?) has been that the results can occasionally have too much grain and, with a view such as this, a bit more of the detail coming through would have improved it for me. On my monitor I seem to be seeing a slight halo around the left-hand side and, as was pointed out to me recently, that can come from sharpening prior to exporting to Nik - could that have happened here?

Cheers,
John

[Stan]

Re: Tower Bridge Lift

Thanks for looking John

It wasn't very high ISO but I think the problems, apart from Nik were shooting through thick and not too clean glass and the halo has come about by using incorrect settings when reducing the size. Have taken the original large conversion and applied some NR and then reducrd for posting - hopefully the halo has now gone or at least not to prominent

Stan

[Tigger]

Re: Tower Bridge Lift

I do prefer the second edit Stan - taking photos through glass is never easy, I've just been struggling with an edit myself but kept it colour, if I'm brave I may post it

[ColytonJohn]

Re: Tower Bridge Lift

That's a big improvement Stan

In their later years my parents spent my inheritence on a seemingly endless series of holidays which they recorded by taking photographs through coach windows, train windows, aeroplane windows and hotel windows - all rubbish.

Cheers,
John

[tesarver]

Re: Tower Bridge Lift

Nicely edited Stan

Tom

[Parsen66]

Re: Tower Bridge Lift

Second version much more pleasing Stan

[Stan]

Re: Tower Bridge Lift

thanks guys