Foggy sunset over Parliament and the London Eye

[ianmarsh]

I took these from Hungerford Bridge last night with a Fuji X-E1 and 14mm lens. Three hendheld shots at +1, 0, -1 stops, merged in HDR Efex 2, bit of Lightroom work, Viveza 2, Color Efex Pro 4 and then finished off in Lightroom again. Any comments and suggestions welcome as this is way outside my comfort zone of posed portraits of children.

#1

#2

 

[Martyn D]

Like both of these, especially number 2...HDR as is should be imo

 

[alfbranch]

I like both but I prefer the composition of the first.

 

[ACW]

Two good shots but I prefer the second. Beautiful colours.

 

[huffy]

I like the second, I feel the boat on the right balances the shot better and also the extra colours in the sky add to it.

 

[ianmarsh]

Thanks guys. I don't think I really needed to HDR these as single shots could be recovered well enough and I wasn't hoping to fill in the shadows at all. I like the second one more, personally, but the more muted one gets better comments from my family.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Very good HDR but the tell tale halo on the wheel is there.

Composition and tonal range are all spot on. I reckon though with some soft grads a similar image might have been attained.

 

[ianmarsh]

I think the halo on the wheel is from the Nik post processing to be honest (or at least was accentuated by it). I tried to minimise it but obviously didn't do a great job!

 

[jockwav]

Very nice shots,i like the second one the best.

 

[CaptainPenguin]

Both good but no 2 especially, I wouldn't have known it was HDR and that in my book makes it really good work

 

[Idlefrog]

Cracking photos. I slightly prefer the first one.

 

[Judi]

love both but the 2nd one gets my vote like the way the wake of the boat leads the eye to the bridge

 

[Buck]

Ian

I like both as standalone images. The colours in #2 are the better of the two although I marginally prefer the composition of #1 (I'm wondering if it's the Eye being too face on in the second?)

I like the HDR processing - looks very well processed and as hand held shots, even better!

 

[ianmarsh]

Thanks everyone. I printed out 1 today and it looks much more vibrant than on screen (reds and oranges always seem to on my printer). I'll try 2 tomorrow.

 

[ringyneck]

Just 2 superb images and different part in each are better.
I too think the eye in 2 is too bold - the flatter one in No1 does not draw the eye away from the focal point and spoil the lead in.

Keith

 

[ianmarsh]

For some reason I didn't process this one in the first pass though I knew when I took it that it was my favourite composition with the boat being more prominent. It still has the London Eye large in the shot, though I like that as I think it balances the scene better (otherwise everything of interest is on the right of the shot). I wasn't so heavy-handed with darkening the shot this time, and this is from a single shot, no HDR.

 

[oskanoears]

number 2 is just awesome, really nice shot, thanks for sharing