London 7. Oxford Street Area on Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we headed down to Oxford Street, Carnaby Street and Leicester Square to look at the decorations etc. I tried so slow shutterspeed shoppers - 1/15 worked well for blurred background (first image) but pretty low hit rate for sharp shoppers so settled on 1/30th. Otherwise concentrated on the ubiquitous mobile phone being used for calls, music,location and photos

London 6. Trafalgar Square and Back To Euston

By the time we had refreshed ourselves with a cup of tea in the National Gallery, the natura; light had gone so longer exposures were needed. The images are all 15 seconds, except the first (1/4sec), the sixth (1 sec) and 7th (4 secs). 

London 5. Familiar Landmarks in the Golden (well not quite!) Hour

We used the best light of the day to photograph across Westminster Bridge, down Horse Guards Parade and into Trafalgar Square. Images 6 and 7 are take at 1/8th sec and 13 second (more long exposures in next blog). I particularly like the penultimate image of the lady in red as it has an eastern European look though not sure how I achieved it.

London 4. Tate Modern Turbine Hall and Boilerhouse - Contrasts

We spent a considerable time photographing in the Tate both for the architecture and the displays. The colours of the Turbine House, especially with the striped carpet reflected in a large swinging metal ball and orange metal pipes supporting a series of swings, contrasted well with the concrete walls and staircase in the Boilerhouse

 

London 3. Walk through City of London

On Saturday, we walked through the City of London to the Tate Modern, snapping en route. As well as my Fuji gear, I used a small Sony compact that I have recently acquired for keeping always available in the car etc. It only takes Raw and, so far, light has been so poor that I have only used it at 1600 iso when quality is not great for large images but ok for Blog (images 2, 3 (old Smithfields), 4, 5 and 6)