Extremely impromtu, offhand , casual (emphasis on CASUAL) photos from London.

[Brendon]

Ok, this was from the end of my trip and I was absolutely exhausted. I actually was fed up of taking photographs and these were about all I could manage from two days of being in London.

My no of keepers nosedived like the Bombay stock exchange and I clicked some photos which on reviewing after I came back made me go like (what the hell is wrong with me ?? )

Since these are casual photos I am posting quite a few to act as a photo tour of London.

1. Changing of the guard


2. Buckingham Palace


3. Tower of London


4. London street


5. London bridge NOT falling down


6. A ye old inn


7. Small marina


8. Near my hotel


9. Street


10. Part of the palace


11. Queen's guard


12. Buckingham Palace


13. Part of a church


14. One of the many bridges in London


15. From London eye (Second largest giant wheel after Singapore)


16. From the London eye

[aroonkalandy]

Awesome Images Brendon...........

Really gives an Exotic view of London..........

[Madhav Bhakta]

Superb series.

[aniltulsi]

WoW.... and the clouds look dynamic...

[Anandarajkumar]

Nice series. I wish to go this place!

[Omkar]

Brendon: London eye is lovely.

[Chillum Baba]

3, 10 , 13 and 15 for me. Lovely skies captured in most except in the first one. 15th is better than 16th for me.

[Vivek Iyer]

Nice series Brendon

[theqca]

sigh...brings back old memories of the good old days...thanks for the pics...happy to see the old place still looks the same..

pic 5 is tower bridge....london bridge is the next one if you continue traveling up the river...you can walk along the tower-ways and also see the steam engines that work the suspension part of the bridge..hope u did that? still remember a hilarious thing that had happened when bill clinton was the US president and was visiting london....the brits opened the suspension bridge to allow a boat to pass through since the boat was on scheduled time where as clinton was late...his being late resulted in half his secret service escort cars stuck on one side of the bridge and him on the other side...it was funny....only the english could've done something like that :p

i liked the changing of the guard pics....you got some closeups? also when they come from st james palace and exchange keys - those would be good photo ops..

pic 15 from the london eye showing the houses of parliament is the one i liked the best from this series....


ps - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

[Image]

You can take more credit for the photos than you have taken (in the way you describe in the title of this post). They definitely look as if some thought has gone into them. In 15 and 16 though the clouds look unreal. If you converted the clouds into black and white and the worked the opacity of the layer, then you can reduce the opacity of the B&W layer even more. It looks too dark compared to the light on the land.

Now I really would not mind a casual shot of Kate Middleton. nahi mila kya usse ?

[toofan]

Awesome work.
H. B. Day.

[iamsomnath]

Nice series Brendon ... TFS ... but your signature is too prominent IMO ... a bit distracting for me

[Francis]

Brendon lovely series, now no need to go to London, seen it all here

Now I really would not mind a casual shot of Kate Middleton. nahi mila kya usse ?

[Brendon]

@Aroon - Thanks sirji !

@Madhav - Thanks Madhavji !!!

@Aniltulsi - Yeah I was very disappointed when I actually saw the clouds but thankfully the camera had enough dynamic range to capture some detail in the clouds that are not viewable to the naked eye.

@Anandrajkumar - Thanks !

@Omkar - Thanks Omkar

@Chillum - Thanks doc ! Yeah first one the sky was a total write off but it was the only one with lots of london guards so I posted it.

@theqca - Ah yes, you are correct but no I did not get to see the bridge getting suspended. We barely got any time to do anything in London as we were here for barely a day and a half before leaving.

There was tons of crowds and I was extremely sleeply ! The problem was that I switched my wristwatch to GMT from the GMT + 1 in Europe. But I forgot to change my alarm clock so we woke up at 4:30 am rather than 5:30 am.

And I set my Sigma 70-210mm f2.8 to f8 on an overcast day trying to shoot action. So I got plenty of blurred photos for my goof up.

And thanks !

@Toofan - Thanks sirji.

@iamsomnath - Thanks sirji, point notes. I realized you are right after you pointed it out.

@Francis - Thanks buddy ! And nope no Kate Middleton shot !

@Image - Thanks for the positive feedback but I was really on auto pilot mode that day. Lack of sleep and a really grueling schedule of waking up at 5 am and 6 am everyday for 14 consecutive days took a toll on my fat lazy arse !

15 and 16 are the only HDRs that were clicked. The originals didn't have enough dynamic range to capture the whole scene but believe it or not the HDRs are quite close to the actual scene that day. I was really struck at how dark and foreboding the skies were and after a few futile attempts to try and capture the full dynamic range with a single exposure I switched to bracketing and took these two photos.

[bippz]

Had a casual look at these Casual shots, only to realise they were more than casual and did not deserve a casual look.
Nice series.
Thanks for sharing.