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Have processed my Luneside files, Jubilee Bridge. It has long been a target for my imagination, wondering how to capture the somewhat striking design in a meaningful way. I have been somewhat concerned about taking the camera into that area because there are so many bone-head idiots roaming, just looking for 'fun'. Armed with the D3 and 16mm f2.8 fisheye Michael and I ventured forth.
With the extreme range of lighting I decided to go with bracketing and HDR from the outset. These are my attempts. I have captioned them ready for uploading to the Portfolio website. It seems the Adobe Portfolio layouts can't handle captions.
I used Lightroom (Classic) to create the HDR images, quick and easy. I don't feel they look 'overcooked'?
I also used the lens correction feature in Lr to de-fish the extreme distortions introduced with the Nikkor fisheye. I haven't completely straightened the images, rather a compromise. I actually quite like the curved effect, also it looses important bits from the image when the geometry is fully straightened, which was why I selected to use a fisheye in the first place.
Finally taken from a bridge over the M6 Motorway:
30 seconds exposure.
In the interests of safety I wore a dayglow yellow jacket because there was passing traffic on the bridge, despite the late hour (this exposure was made at 03:21 Hrs). Unfortunately some wagon drivers on the motorway mistook me for a police radar trap!!! They expressed their feeling by blowing their horns at me...
Looking at these, I think the caption background needs to be brighter?
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Robert.