[Photos] London from the 31st floor

[dancefloorlandmine]

On Tuesday last week, Centrepoint finally held an event at Centrepoint - in the Paramount Club, up on the 31st floor (the club actually takes up three floors, but that's the one that we were on). The event was a pub quiz, with some celebrity guests (including Sara Cox, Annie Mac, Scott Mills, Hugh Grant, David Tennant and Jonathan Ross) - the event photos are why I was there with my camera, and are covered by my contract of employment, but you can see some of them on the Centrepoint website. These, however, were photos of opportunity - a 31st floor view, you say? Over London? At night? And I've got a camera with me? Don't mind if I do, thanks ...

Unfortunately, what I didn't have with me were a tripod (hand-holding night-time landscape shots is not ideal) or an open window/balcony/darkened room, as a result of which the photos are a) a little blurred and b) there are quite a few reflections from the room, which are less than ideal. (The night wasn't entirely clear, either, which didn't help, although it does add to the Bladerunner-like vista of some of them.)

So, if anyone gets a chance to get me back up there in better photographic conditions ...













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Comments

[silenttex.livejournal.com]

It's not really clear enough to contrast inside/outside, as there's a bit too much depth of field blur, so to me, it's just distracting. The subject of the image is the cityscape, but this bright area keeps trying to pull my eye to the bottom of the frame.

Re: filter. I find it gives a very slightly more saturated feel to the sky, and makes colours just a bit more punchy (depending on the angle of the light - it's most noticeable with the light at 90 degrees, and barely noticeable with the sun behind or in front of you), but it's really useful for minimising reflections in glass or water, and it gets rid of haze in bright sunshine.
http://www.offrench.net/photos/articles/polarizing_filter.php
Plus, leaving it on more or less all the time, if it gets scratched it's less than £20 for a new one rather than having to buy a new lens.