Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Staircase of The Monument, London, UK, 2007reflection

Let’s leave weird­ness behind and move on to shape. Here’s a photo that I took on my trip to Lon­don last year in the entrance of the Monu­ment of the Great Fire of Lon­don (bit of a lengthy name, that).

As with most stair cases, it’s fun to shoot straight up when you’re at the bot­tom of them. So out I took my bean-​bag, put the cam­era on it and shot straight up. This was actu­ally on top of the little booth where you pay the admis­sion, so the dude inside it gave me an annoyed look when he got up to see where the noise above his head came from ;-)

Luck­ily enough the first shot was good enough — well exposed and, by total chance, per­fectly aimed. So the rest was just a bit of crop­ping, B/​W con­ver­sion (with emphasis on the greens, giv­ing most con­trast in the pic­ture) and sharpening.

Focal length: 18 mm (27 mm)
Aperture:ƒ/7.1
Exposure:1 s
ISO:100
Lens:Sony 18-70
Location: London, UK
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