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On Friday I posted my favourite shot from an evening in London, which was a night shot of St Paul's Cathedral as seen from the south side of the Millennium Bridge.  This is one shot I've wanted to take for a long time as I love taking images of Sir Christopher Wren's most famous creation.  Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 (WCL-X100) - 1/350th @ f5.6 - ISO200 I decided to spend the last part of the day in and around the area taking images of the skyline with St Paul's in shot.  The images were very monochromatic, so this is how I chose to post process in PSE11. Nikon D800 - 17-35mm f2.8 - 1/250th @ f5.6 - ISO400 Nikon D800 - 17-35mm f2.8 - 1/160th @ f5.6 - ISO400 Nikon D800 - 17-35mm f2.8 - 1/50th @ f5.6 - ISO400 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERM...

Nikon D800 - Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 - 30s @ f11 - ISO 100 - Tripod This is a shot I've always wanted to get but until now I've not had the time to do.  Some business meetings in London afforded me the opportunity to get some evening shots around London and I headed to the Millenium Bridge across the River Thames to get the shot of St Paul's Cathedral lit up on the north bank. A thirty second exposure blurred the people walking across the bridge and gave the sky an eerie glow as the city lights bounced off the low clouds.  I took eight shots at various settings, two of which has to be discarded due to joggers wearing fluorescent jackets that showed up in the image, and this one was the favourite. Post processing in Photoshop Elements 11 included blending two exposures of the same RAW file so as not to lose the detail in the Cathedral dome, which was a lot brighter than the rest of the image.  I then applied a Color Efex Pro 4 'fine' tonal contr...