The Shard HDR BW001

The Shard, from One London Place. For non-Londoners 'the Shard' is the newest (still unfinished) controversial addition to London's skyline. Situated just behind London Bridge Station and wedged in by Guy's Hospital and Guy's & Thomas' (Guy's) Campus of Kings College London it's due for completion in the summer.

This is the the mono version based on the original HDR colour composite which can be seen here [link] This mono version was reworked slightly with colour additional adjustment in Lightroom to reveal more of the detail of the closer buildings that displayed too much colour-noise in the original. The result is a much light image overall with greatly reduce contrast. The Clarity/Presence was also reduced.

The bright spot / halo where the top of the building will eventually be is the result if Gamma reduction (negative Gamma) in the HDR processing. It's an accident that obscures the unfinished nature of the building ultimately (in my view) makes the image.

2012_01_29
Device = Nokia N8
Camera App = HDR Pro (3 shots @ +2 Auto -2, Slow)
Post = Adobe Photoshop CS5 (HDR composite, Sharpen and a bit of dodge and burn), Adobe Lightroom 3 (Noise reduction and colour removal and tone management via colour channel in mono)

Img No: = 2012_01_29_(20120129_170651-772_1_2_3)HDR2-LR_Std_300ppi_001-3_CRM


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