This image is from the New Zealand War Memorial in Green Park, London and was taken on the 2010 Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk. There were some great close-up opportunities on this fascinating memorial and this was my favourite. There are some great textures on the monument, plus it’s just a cool sculpture, so if you’re in the area you should go and check it out.
This image is a view of the Queen Victoria Memorial on The Mall outside Buckingham Palace and was taken in London on the 3rd annual Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk.
It’s a handheld 3 shot HDR at 2 stops +/-, processed through Photomatix followed by extensive colour processing in LR3. I had a concept in mind of the sun setting on the British Empire so I adjusted the overall temperature and colour saturation to get the golden look. Finally I tried out some new HDR post-processing in Photoshop, adding overlay and multiply layers at different opacities, each processed separately in Topaz Adjust finished in Topaz DeNoise. The idea of the post-processing is to increase colour punch and contrast.
Taken while climbing the 99 steps up to Whitby Abbey. Processed the file in LR2 and then gave it a bit extra punch using Topaz Adjust v4.
