120 London Wall

[biglouis]

This is a picture taken from the raised walkway which runs beside the new 120 London Wall at the corner of London Wall and Moorgate. I shot this through the outter glass wall which is showing the reflection of the Barbican centre behind me.

Panasonic FX-01 Leica DC Vario Elmarit

120 london wall looking through lobby P1000062.jpg

This picture was taken a few minutes earlier from a vantage point opposite the building.

120 london wall from crosswalk P1000046.jpg

[jmr]

Louis,

wonderfully confusing perspectives in the first shot - well seen.

[elansprint72]

These plastic toy cameras are just a waste of time, you'll never get a decent shot, why not bin it, sell your house and buy an M8? No worries there.

#1 is a fantastic eye-puzzle, not much wrong with the verticals in #2 either, Big L.

Cheers,
Pete.

[martinop]

Like the view in #1.

[stuny]

Big -

Delightful complexity of the geomentric, higher contrast direct shot and the ghostly refelctions.

[biglouis]

Guys

Thanks for the comments. Always helps build my confidence if someone actually likes what I do. I have to say I have been inspired by the results both John and Peter have gotten with these small digicams. I keep the FX-01 with me in my bag since I bought it and like yesterday, where I suddenly had an hour with nothing do, it is a great way of relaxing.

Apologies for not making it clear but I always correct verticals in exterior building shots. My only disappointment is with the slight purple fringing visible even in a reduced size crop.

LouisB

[Peter41951]

Louis, your corrections are very successful, and you make the City look very photogenic. Do find the fringing affects your prints?

[biglouis]

Peter

So far I have not tried printing from the camera so I do not know what the final effect will be. I suspect I 'enhanced' the colour distortion when I processed the image in CS2.

LouisB

[spylaw4]

#1 is a great shot Louis!

[Sterntaler]

#1 is a wonderful irritating pic.

[ChristopheBoete]

The first one is really cool!


thanks,
Christophe

[ECliffordSmith]

Louis,

Nice shots. That part of town has changed a bit since I was last round there.

[samwells]

Yes, the first one is wonderful (and all the better for being b+w) - like a collage done by a madman. And there's that figue kinda half way up the lh side who appears to be standing on one of the glazing bars. Great!
cheers:
Sam

[lxtc]

OMG, this first pic is really great stuff.

[biglouis]

All

Thanks again for the positive comments. It was one of those spur of the moment shots aided by the fact that the little Panasonic FX-01 is so portable.

The building is very strange in that it is built on stilts that are over the original 1960s Barbican raised walkway. If you look closely at the bottom left hand corner of the shot of the building you'll see the walkway extending under the building.

As the outter walls at this point are glass you can stand, almost suspended, at ceiling level and look right through the walls, which is a very cool perspective.

LouisB