Sydney`s tallest building, Sydney Tower, gets reflected in 20 level office tower. Walking along the Pitt Street at one time I was stunned by clear and almost full size reflection of Sydney Tower in one of the glass buildings nearby. I observed it for a while moving around and noticing how reflection is changing and disappearing at some spots. After that I started to think about capturing the view noticing when would be the best light and the best time. Sometime later with Tower glowing in yellow light of setting sun and sky deeply blue I took around 27 shots handheld from different places to select just a few for further processing.
For this image I chose 9 shots (3 vertical AEB sets with three -2,0,+2EV photos in each). 3 HDR files came out of those 9 images and finally they were stitched into one big HDR panorama. I then tonemapped it lightly and processed to enhance the contrast, color and few minor things like noise and shadows.
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great composition, the reflection is magnificent!
nice shot
Stunning work Rod. An HDR panoramic, that’s really amazing. I’ve tried that a few times and the file sizes were tremendous and took lots of cpu power to process. A powerful and ominous architectural image, great job!
pixeltoko, Tayab, John Maslowski: Thank you for your kind words.
John: It does indeed add a whole new dimension in terms of processing. Luckily it is still manageable to process 150 Mb HDR file that I’ve got as a resulting panorama. With a lens wide enough it might not be required most of the times, but with my 18-200mm I like the additional space I am getting with panoramic images.
what a fabulous image! well captured Rod!!
This looks great! It has a big “wow” factor. The reflection of the tower is fantastic.