UWA at Canary Wharf - 'Wider still and wider'

codyghind · Jun 10, 2014

Yaelle, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a typical gear testing stroll during lunch break, right?

I happen to work a few meters down at South Quay, and I too am considering to bring along my brand new E-M10 one day in order to test it out! Canary Wharf makes an interesting scenery for photography.

Anyway, great pictures indeed!

Michael L NYC 99 · Jun 10, 2014

yyr said:
It was a beautiful day in London yesterday so I took a couple of hours out to trot the Panasonic 7-14 and the Samyang 7.5 FE down to Canary Wharf. It was too bright to do much outside but the underground station is a marvel of modern architecture and engineering designed by renowned British architect Sir Norman Foster, so it was a joy to shoot this set.

There are a couple of different entrances to the station, the main one is rather grand and the other is equally beautiful but on a smaller scale.

And if you're struggling to put your finger on that quote in the title, it's from the chorus of Land of Hope and Glory 'Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set'. It's always good to have a little culture thrown in with the photos

Thanks for looking - I hope you enjoy these as much as I have enjoyed making them.

Samyang 7.5 - summer has arrived.

The trees nicely frame this shot and the glint of reflected sun is nice as well.

yyr said:
The next 4 pictures are taken at the secondary entrance

Samyang 7.5

Panasonic 7-14

I've been at this station twice and I think this is the entrance I used and photographed. The light was very good for your visit as the blue sky shows quite vividly. My shots didn't show the sky color as the interior was deeply shadowed. The perspective for the shot above is quite good and accentuates the curves and lines of the dome.

yyr said:
At street level, its a short stroll around to the main entrance and ticket hall.

And finally, it's always hard to resist a shot of One Canada Square. This is the iconic building most people would associate with Canary Wharf (it has a roof shaped like a pyramid) Until recently it was for many years the tallest building in the UK but has now ceded that title to The Shard.

Panasonic 7-14

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I didn't have a lot of time to explore Canary Wharf, but I recall an open space west of One Canada Square called Cabot Place (I think) with a circular fountain that needed a wide angle lens. The first time I was there it was pouring rain and I didn't do much exploring. The second time it was a bright and sunny morning, but the light was too bright and there were too many shadows, especially when looking from the west. I'll have to make some more time to walk around Canary Wharf on my next visit.

Regards

Michael

yyr said:
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FrankS009 · Jun 10, 2014

Do that. By the way, I like your quotation.

F.

RoelHendrickx · Jun 10, 2014

Creative and spectacular use of wide angle.

Pointing ultra-wide at the world (almost) always results in outerworldly views.

yyr · Jun 10, 2014

19andrew47 said:
A nice set Yaelle. 2 and 8 for me, but especially 2! I am not generally a fan of fisheye images but in this one I really don't see any obvious effects and it works really well. A great image. It is relatively inexpensive and small so I may be able to convince myself to buy one. I have the 7 - 14 4/3 lens but rarely use it (a shame for what it cost).

Andrew

From everything I've heard the 4/3 lens is wonderful if a little on the large side compared to its smaller brother. The Samyang is small and so cheap (relatively) that it's a shame not to. Glad you enjoyed the pictures.

yyr · Jun 10, 2014

Florida Nature Photographer said:
Very nice set. I haven't read the rest of the thread so I don't know if I'm repeating or contradicting other comments.

The second is my favorite which surprises me since I haven't normally been a big fan of fish eye shots.

I like the first one too but the red flag in the lower left corner drew my eye to the stroller and partial human there. I think if you just changed the color of the flag to something less bright it would solve that problem.

When my E-M1 comes back from the shop I have to remember to beat the Florida summer heat and try some of these kinds of shots myself.

yyr · Jun 10, 2014

Michael L NYC 99 said:
I didn't have a lot of time to explore Canary Wharf, but I recall an open space west of One Canada Square called Cabot Place (I think) with a circular fountain that needed a wide angle lens. The first time I was there it was pouring rain and I didn't do much exploring. The second time it was a bright and sunny morning, but the light was too bright and there were too many shadows, especially when looking from the west. I'll have to make some more time to walk around Canary Wharf on my next visit.

Regards

Michael

Yes - Cabot Place has the fountain. It was impossible to shoot anything much outdoor that day, as you said the sun was too bright and the many shadows were too deep. You would have a field day there with a tripod and the Voigtlanders at night.

yyr · Jun 10, 2014

codyghind said:
Yaelle, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a typical gear testing stroll during lunch break, right?

Indeed ;-)

yyr · Jun 10, 2014

RoelHendrickx said:
Creative and spectacular use of wide angle.

Pointing ultra-wide at the world (almost) always results in outerworldly views.

Florida Nature Photographer · Jun 10, 2014

yyr said:
Florida Nature Photographer said:

I like the first one too but the red flag in the lower left corner drew my eye to the stroller and partial human there. I think if you just changed the color of the flag to something less bright it would solve that problem.

Click to expand...

Sharp eyes Florida

Well, I didn't see the stroller or human until I zoomed in to see what the flag was doing there.

GeorgianBay1939 · Jun 10, 2014

yyr said:
It was a beautiful day in London yesterday so I took a couple of hours out to trot the Panasonic 7-14 and the Samyang 7.5 FE down to Canary Wharf. It was too bright to do much outside but the underground station is a marvel of modern architecture and engineering designed by renowned British architect Sir Norman Foster, so it was a joy to shoot this set.

There are a couple of different entrances to the station, the main one is rather grand and the other is equally beautiful but on a smaller scale.

And if you're struggling to put your finger on that quote in the title, it's from the chorus of Land of Hope and Glory 'Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set'. It's always good to have a little culture thrown in with the photos

Panasonic 7-14

Yaelle
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White

I came back to study your work and found myself repeatedly coming back to the above. I am not sure why at all. It does simulate a gargantuan mouth taking in the humans on the escalator. But that is not why I really like it.

It is more the dynamic of the escalators (c/w humans) leading up and into the mid-ground. We rarely see that in conventional photography. Especially when it converges to a high ground which is highly detailed and focused.

Of course it does amplify your title line!

I just love it!

Tom

DLBlack · Jun 10, 2014

Wonderful series! I loved all of them.

yyr · Jun 11, 2014

GeorgianBay1939 said:
yyr said:

It was a beautiful day in London yesterday so I took a couple of hours out to trot the Panasonic 7-14 and the Samyang 7.5 FE down to Canary Wharf. It was too bright to do much outside but the underground station is a marvel of modern architecture and engineering designed by renowned British architect Sir Norman Foster, so it was a joy to shoot this set.

There are a couple of different entrances to the station, the main one is rather grand and the other is equally beautiful but on a smaller scale.

And if you're struggling to put your finger on that quote in the title, it's from the chorus of Land of Hope and Glory 'Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set'. It's always good to have a little culture thrown in with the photos

Panasonic 7-14

Yaelle
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White

Click to expand...

I came back to study your work and found myself repeatedly coming back to the above. I am not sure why at all. It does simulate a gargantuan mouth taking in the humans on the escalator. But that is not why I really like it.

It is more the dynamic of the escalators (c/w humans) leading up and into the mid-ground. We rarely see that in conventional photography. Especially when it converges to a high ground which is highly detailed and focused.

Of course it does amplify your title line!

I just love it!

Tom

You've really made me laugh! And of course now that you've drawn my eye to the resemblance I'll take it one step further and tell you that it makes me think of this....

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Yaelle
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White

yyr · Jun 11, 2014

DLBlack said:
Wonderful series! I loved all of them.

GeorgianBay1939 · Jun 11, 2014

yyr said:
GeorgianBay1939 said:

yyr said:

It was a beautiful day in London yesterday so I took a couple of hours out to trot the Panasonic 7-14 and the Samyang 7.5 FE down to Canary Wharf. It was too bright to do much outside but the underground station is a marvel of modern architecture and engineering designed by renowned British architect Sir Norman Foster, so it was a joy to shoot this set.

There are a couple of different entrances to the station, the main one is rather grand and the other is equally beautiful but on a smaller scale.

And if you're struggling to put your finger on that quote in the title, it's from the chorus of Land of Hope and Glory 'Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set'. It's always good to have a little culture thrown in with the photos

Panasonic 7-14

Yaelle
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White

Click to expand...

I came back to study your work and found myself repeatedly coming back to the above. I am not sure why at all. It does simulate a gargantuan mouth taking in the humans on the escalator. But that is not why I really like it.

It is more the dynamic of the escalators (c/w humans) leading up and into the mid-ground. We rarely see that in conventional photography. Especially when it converges to a high ground which is highly detailed and focused.

Of course it does amplify your title line!

I just love it!

Tom

Click to expand...

You've really made me laugh! And of course now that you've drawn my eye to the resemblance I'll take it one step further and tell you that it makes me think of this....

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Yaelle
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White

YES!! Of course!

(I see that the paragon of British journalism, the Daily Mail, is reporting that Sir Mick is up to his "usual tricks" again.)

T

yyr · Jun 11, 2014

GeorgianBay1939 said:
yyr said:

GeorgianBay1939 said:

yyr said:

It was a beautiful day in London yesterday so I took a couple of hours out to trot the Panasonic 7-14 and the Samyang 7.5 FE down to Canary Wharf. It was too bright to do much outside but the underground station is a marvel of modern architecture and engineering designed by renowned British architect Sir Norman Foster, so it was a joy to shoot this set.

There are a couple of different entrances to the station, the main one is rather grand and the other is equally beautiful but on a smaller scale.

And if you're struggling to put your finger on that quote in the title, it's from the chorus of Land of Hope and Glory 'Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set'. It's always good to have a little culture thrown in with the photos

Panasonic 7-14

Yaelle
--------
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White

Click to expand...

I came back to study your work and found myself repeatedly coming back to the above. I am not sure why at all. It does simulate a gargantuan mouth taking in the humans on the escalator. But that is not why I really like it.

It is more the dynamic of the escalators (c/w humans) leading up and into the mid-ground. We rarely see that in conventional photography. Especially when it converges to a high ground which is highly detailed and focused.

Of course it does amplify your title line!

I just love it!

Tom

Click to expand...

You've really made me laugh! And of course now that you've drawn my eye to the resemblance I'll take it one step further and tell you that it makes me think of this....

--
Yaelle
--------
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White

Click to expand...

YES!! Of course!

(I see that the paragon of British journalism, the Daily Mail, is reporting that Sir Mick is up to his "usual tricks" again.)

T

Yes, well - long may it last. I saw the Stones in concert last summer and he looked more than capable despite his age ;-)

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Yaelle
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White

chrisjjb · Jun 11, 2014

Thanks for sharing

I love all of these but especially these 4. Amazing what can be done with UWA in the hands of a pro

Love this one,, lovely use of fisheye effect without distortion

Samyang 7.5

Panasonic 7-14

Really good quality defish, cleverly the areas which lose detail in the defish are the areas which have the least detail to lose (not sure if this was creative cropping or just good planning)

Samyang 7.5 - defished

At first I thought the lampost was distracting but I love how it perfectly follows up that third line of windows.

Panasonic 7-14

After all that I know have to add the 7-14 to my list of lenses to buy (7.5FE/35-100/75/100-300)

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yyr · Jun 11, 2014

chrisjjb said:
Thanks for sharing

I love all of these but especially these 4. Amazing what can be done with UWA in the hands of a pro

Hardly a pro but thank you for the compliment - I'll accept it graciously

chrisjjb said:
Love this one,, lovely use of fisheye effect without distortion

Samyang 7.5

Panasonic 7-14

chrisjjb said:
Really good quality defish, cleverly the areas which lose detail in the defish are the areas which have the least detail to lose (not sure if this was creative cropping or just good planning)

Good framing

This has the smallest of crops to the left, right and bottom. With both these lenses I compose to give a margin for distortion correction but still try to frame to the subject as much as I can. Who knows, I may actually want to print something one of these days!!

chrisjjb said:
Samyang 7.5 - defished

At first I thought the lampost was distracting but I love how it perfectly follows up that third line of windows.

Panasonic 7-14

After all that I know have to add the 7-14 to my list of lenses to buy (7.5FE/35-100/75/100-300)

I hope that your wife will be back at work after maternity soon - either that or you will have to rob a bank. I'm not a landscape photographer but I have seen enough of your work around Dartmoor to know that you would really enjoy using the 7-14 out there.

chrisjjb said:
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Yaelle
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White

Hen3ry · Jun 11, 2014

Except, dammit, your results justify that PP chicanery.

Wonderful pix!

"Land of hope and glory" - the Brits should sell off that song out to the Americans now! Along with "Jerusalem". The two are the most outrageously vainglorious statements ever set to music!

Heh, heh.

A very dear friend was buried yesterday in Melbourne. I was here in the islands, so did my private farewell to him. Went to a local resort in Kokopo, which is built on a cliff edge and has a great deck about 15 meters above the beach, set up the laptop playing "Jerusalem" and toasted him in red wine from his favorite region.

Why Jerusalem? Because it is so over the top, the diametric opposite of my friend, but rousing and whatnot.

And took a picture, of course, with the G6 and the Oly 9-18.

In the background is St George's Channel, the local branch of the Pacific Ocean. That island you can see is one of the Pigeon Islands, a wildlife sanctuary and frequent stop-off for cruise ships, about 20 minutes away by outboard powered dinghy; New Ireland is just lost in the cloud -- it is two hours away by dinghy.

This is my work-a-day outfit, by the way. Complete with sandals.

Having a fully articulated screen and a built-in flash on the G6 really helps on these occasions.

Cheers, geoff

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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
http://pngtimetraveller.blogspot.com/2011/10/return-to-karai-komana_31.html

tokumeino · Jun 12, 2014

Once defished (rectilinear, not panini), what do you think is the 7-14 focal length you would need to get the same frame ?

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