From Waterloo Bridge

[THELONGMAN]

River Thames from Waterloo Bridge, London.

[kev7d]

Loads of interest in this view.

[THELONGMAN]

Cheers Kev, I agree it is a bot busy?

 

Geoff

 

 

[Clicker]

That's a fabulous vista .Geoff... and if you want to portray  the vibrance and bustle of a major  City  ... you've done just that  without seeing hundreds of the inhabitants . I love that it's busy ... That's what London is ... busy.. . a really  nice balance to the  composition  ... . Lovely work  Geoff ...

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks Clicker, strangely it was very quiet Friday afternoon & yesterday morning along the South Bank, so great or photography?

 

Geoff

 

 

[Clicker]

I wonder if the tragic events the week before down the road at Westminster Bridge has had any impact ... Hard to know really ... .. It's a great skyline though ...,so recognisable and iconic...   

[THELONGMAN]

Could have been a contributory factor, there are still flowers on all the lamp posts and a mass of flowers outside New Scotland Yard. There was a demonstration on by the right wing movements which meant hundreds of riot police and vans around Lambeth Saturday afternoon.

 

[colinb]

Busy ? Yes - very, but as Polly has said its London.

But I do find it a little over sharp on the water, although I think partly due to the processing as the sky looks grey rather like the whites need lifting and a little more saturation on the cyan would really make this picture 'pop'. A very nice 'busy' picture that I think you have not got the best out of it - yet :-)

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks Colin, food for thought---------------

 

Geoff

 

 

[ChrisLumix]

I agree with Colin - the sky needs its levels lifting quite a long way, even if burns out a small area of cloud just a little. And blue added back in to it. Otherwise, nice picture.  

[THELONGMAN]

Cheers Chris,

 

Geoff

 

 

[CMunzel]

Interesting feedback about the sky. I thought the photo had been a bit de-saturated deliberately. 

[THELONGMAN]

Thanks CMunzel.-- It was de-situated by choice, but I do accept that others may not find it to their taste and take on board what they say,

 

Geoff

 

 

[Clicker]

I actually rather like less blue in the sky ... For me  making too much of the sky in this context would have taken away a lot of the emphasis on the  rest of the vista ...  In fact I quite like the thought of a mono version without massive contrasts in the tones ... But  there you go ... Thank gawd  we are all different  ,,,,,

 

[colinb]

6 hours ago, CMunzel said:

Interesting feedback about the sky. I thought the photo had been a bit de-saturated deliberately. 

The sky isn't desaturated, that would just drop the colour but leave the white tones white. I'm assuming its been 'burnt' which often gives that grey dull look to the white and mid-tones and that is leaving the river tones white making it 'glare' which drags the eye bottom right.

Any chance of seeing the unedited version?

[Clicker]

I do see where  you are coming from Colin ... Looks like part of the whites in the sky  have been over exposed and  in an attempt to  retrieve  it has gone that  strange grey colour  ....I get that if i havent used an  ND filter  and shooting into very bright light .. ...

[THELONGMAN]

22 minutes ago, colinb said:

The sky isn't desaturated, that would just drop the colour but leave the white tones white. I'm assuming its been 'burnt' which often gives that grey dull look to the white and mid-tones and that is leaving the river tones white making it 'glare' which drags the eye bottom right.

Any chance of seeing the unedited version?

This is the jpeg not the RAW a;so a mono version from the RAW file

[Clicker]

Hmmm...that puts a new complexion on things ... The first one in colour  looks as if  the sky is mostly fine   and it would appear that the contrast has been taken down to beyond minus 50 and resulted in that greying of the whites . The bright  water  reflecting lightt  under rthe right hand span seems to be  " burned " out and maybe in order to retrieve some definition there  the sky area has been comprpmised  . I  have to say  this mono  conversion  does not work well for me  as whites seem to be enirely missing . It's good to play with ideas  and I respect that Geoff does not allow editing of his images ... But I  am itching  to ask him to play with it some more as I love the content ... ..

[CMunzel]

This is an interesting discussion about post-processing. 

[colinb]

9 hours ago, Clicker said:

 I respect that Geoff does not allow editing of his images ... But I  am itching  to ask him to play with it some more as I love the content ... ..

Me too Polly, great shot but I would like to try and see what I could come up with using the Raw file.

[THELONGMAN]

1 minute ago, colinb said:

Me too Polly, great shot but I would like to try and see what I could come up with using the Raw file.

Sorry Colin, Id forgotten that, feel free to have a bash at it,

 

Geoff

 

 

[colinb]

2 minutes ago, THELONGMAN said:

Sorry Colin, Id forgotten that, feel free to have a bash at it,

 

Geoff

Thanks Geoff very good of you, I'll give the jpg a go tonight but don't expect a lot as I'm used to working with Raw

[THELONGMAN]

13 minutes ago, colinb said:

Thanks Geoff very good of you, I'll give the jpg a go tonight but don't expect a lot as I'm used to working with Raw

If you have a method of getting the RAW file to you let me know?

[colinb]

Well I had a go but it is certainly a picture of contrasts and I would advise maybe buying a CP filter next time :-)

Geoff if you wish your are more than welcome to send me the Raw file using the link below.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/97Zt74i9q05gpUNoUeoa

Just noticed the file has lost some of its sharpness after uploading to here?

Raw edit - click to view the large

[ChrisLumix]

Good edit, Colin.