Comments on: The London Bean

By: milou

milou — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:59:39 +0000

I notice banding in my shots where I under-exposed by a long way and then spank it in RSE/PS. But this looks a good location. There’s often loads of abstracts of the Mayor’s new offices but rarely the “in context” ones.

By: miles

miles — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:53:06 +0000

I get the same banding sometimes. I think it comes from the greater extremes of tone when you convert to b&w, that depends on the colour bias you’re using of course but if you have a blue sky and convert with a red bias then it really does push the tones. All photoshop manipulation damages the pixels and can lessen the tonal range so the less you do the better. Working in 16bit certainly seems to help.

By: Maarten

Maarten — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:22:50 +0000

Did you try converting the image to 16 bit before converting it to grayscale ?

By: Bahar

Bahar — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:41:18 +0000

I like the composition, nice shot!

By: kitten

kitten — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:06:05 +0000

hey – give me a shout next time you’re off to the Smoke, if you don’t mind I might tag along :D

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:05:06 +0000

Great image and if you wander around to the right of where you took this you’ll find lots more to shoot in the “More London” area