3 Red Buses in London

[Tony M]

This photo continues the theme of B&W + red element(s) that I started in this post.

It was taken in London, on the north side of London Bridge, with The Shard building in the background. I walked up a few steps to get a better view and as luck would have it, three buses passed over the bridge.

Processing done in Lightroom, then Silver Efex Pro.

C&C welcome. I'll start. I often forget to increase the size of the frame in order to allow for correcting the distortion. If I correct for vertical distortion in this photo, then I lose some of the front bus. Grrrr. Below the first one you'll see the other corrected for distortion.


Olympus EM1 Mk II, Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO lens @ 27mm, 1/250s, f/5.6, ISO 400



Tony

[LePetomane]

Tony, very nice.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[lovelife65]

Awesomeness!

[Tony M]

I wasn't satisified with either of these images. As I want to print the photo, I re-did the keystone correction, applying slightly less in order to avoid cropping the front of the bus. I also removed the two heads that are in front of the bus. Below is the final result.

Now I just need to find a print shop in Madrid. I'm considering Dinasa, but they don't open on Saturday and Mon-Fri I can't get to the centre of Madrid. So I may have to take a leap of faith and do it via email...

[billtils]

Decapitation is good . As is the more modest keystone correction. Good luck with the printing - unless there are some special circumstances, I don't see why email would not be successful.

[Tony M]

Decapitation is good . As is the more modest keystone correction. Good luck with the printing - unless there are some special circumstances, I don't see why email would not be successful.

Hehe, I did it carefully so as not to leave a stain on the road. And yes, a bit of keystone distortion is not necessarily a bad thing.

[ScoutR]

The last one definitely works the best. Love the shot and processing.