Thames Barrier

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Inspired by a shot I saw in the Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition I dragged the kids down to the Thames Barrier yesterday. We firtuitously got there in time for sunset though it wasn't a great one. The first shot is with an old MF Jupiter 135mm on my Fuji XP1, the second with a Fuji 35mm on the XP1. Comments welcome, as always, as this is a place I will go back to again (without the kids and with a tripod and filters).

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Thames Barrier by ianvecchi, on Flickr

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1401_Barrier_038-Edit-Edit by ianvecchi, on Flickr
 
That's a fairly convincing brace of pictures.

For my taste, they're both cropped a little tight. I'd prefer a little more space to the left of #1 especially; the Citi tower is too close up against the edge of the frame for comfort.

Was the vignette on both added in PP? I could understand the Jupiter behaving like that, but it feels a little odd with the square crop from the Fuji 35mm.
 
Musicman said:
For my taste, they're both cropped a little tight. I'd prefer a little more space to the left of #1 especially; the Citi tower is too close up against the edge of the frame for comfort.

Was the vignette on both added in PP? I could understand the Jupiter behaving like that, but it feels a little odd with the square crop from the Fuji 35mm.
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I hadn't thought too much about the tightness of the crop but now you mention it, you have a good point. I've another shot with a little more space to the left of the Citi tower but then some street lights creep in. I am trying to remember where I was when I took the shot. If I remember correctly, I could easily take a step or two back to give some more space. I'll try this next time.

The vignette in both was added in PP. The Jupiter is pretty good as far as I can tell in this regard and the Fuji is excellent. Without the burning in of the edges I felt my eye tended to drift out of frame in the second shot. I quite like adding a vignette but they are not to everyone's taste I know.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.
 
ST4 said:
Good scenes. Shame about some of the blown skies in two, but you had to get the exposure right on the building
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Thanks for the comments Steve. Nothing blown in the skies though. It is just uniform grey so there is no detail to recover but if anything I had to stretch the dynamic range, the light was so flat. I took three shots in that sequence to try some HDR but the standard exposure metered off the structure was fine.
 
A couple of very nice shots, I'm pleased to see you're getting results with the Jupiter. I'm stillnwaiting on my adapters arriving.
 
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