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The Lloyds Building and The Willis Building.
The Lloyds Building and The Willis Building.
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stephanielynnlund
February 18, 2016
I have one of the exact building, just on the other side of that round part
sarahdarvill
February 27, 2017
You should enter this in my Metallic Objects photo challenge! The link is:
https:// viewbug.com/challenge/metallic-objects-photo-challenge-by-sarahdarvill
https:// viewbug.com/challenge/metallic-objects-photo-challenge-by-sarahdarvill
sarahdarvill
February 27, 2017
https://viewbug.com/challenge/metallic-objects-photo-challenge-by-sarahdarvill
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Location
This photo is of the iconic Lloyds building in London. Its known as the insidious building due to the buildings ventilation pipes being on the outside of the building. The building is situated in the City part of London where there are more and more fantastic buildings appearing. You can see The Willis building to the left of The Lloyds building. The impressive curved glass structure. Just behind where i was taking the photo is the equally impressive Leadenhall building. Its a really fine spot for architectural photography.Time
The photo was taken on a photography workshop in London. It had been a great day walking around with a great group of people taking photos. The highlight of the day was when we got to the Lloyds building area. Everyone had different ideas on how they wanted to capture the buildings in the area. One of the others got a fantastic photo of the Leadenhall building. I myself was focussing more on the Lloyds building and looking straight up at it. I find it a really fascinating piece of architecture.Lighting
The building has a great metallic finish to it so any light in the sky really makes it glow. Shooting straight up and using a long exposure it really helped catch the light on the chrome looking parts of the structure. I was really happy with the changing light in the exposure as it really made the building come to life.Equipment
The photo was taken with my Nikon Df and the really impressive Nikon 17-35mm. The camera and lens really work well together producing some fantastically sharp images. I used a B+W 10 stop filter to get the long exposure. As it was a 48 second shot i needed to use my tripod and cable release too.Inspiration
London has many iconic buildings and this is right up there with the best. Every photographer wants to have a few good shots of this building in their portfolio. If you look around View Bug you will see may inspirational photos The Lloyds building. It was a must for me. I walked around the outside of the building for a few minuets looking for something a little different. Looking straight up i saw a few good compositions, but this was the one that worked the best for me. I hope it inspires more to get out there and take their own shots of this classic building.Editing
This was processed in Lightroom. Converted the RAW image to black and white. Changed the levels a little to really make the building pop. The sky needed toning down a little to help show the cloud movement.In my camera bag
Lately I've been trying top carry less lenses to try and help me improve my compositions and the thought that goes into them. Using only 3 prime lenses, a Nikon 18mm Af-D f2.8, Zeiss 25mm and Nikon 105mm Ais f2.5 it really makes you need to get the composition correct before setting up. Im currently using a Nikon D600 and a infrared converted Nikon D7000. Most of my photos are long exposures so i also have a selection of Formatt-Hitech Firecrest ND filters, a cable release and my Manfrotto Befree tripod. Its a set up I'm really happy with at the moment and it isn't too heavy so allows me to go on long walks around the City.Feedback
London has fantastic photo opportunities around every corner. Grab your camera bag and go for a wander around the city, you will always find something worth shooting. Be it a architectural photo like this, a street photo or a beautiful long exposure across The Thames River.
