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would in public and they have the right to ask/force you to leave. The thing is, they have to temper that right with a bit of flexibility since almost 100,000 people work there, there are hundreds of cafes, restaurants and shops in which (according to the article) half a million people shop each week, there is a tube station, etc. Obviously these things are for the public consumption so it ends up being much like a shopping centre - unless you're up to mischief, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot if they're too heavy handed with you. Still, what sort of security risk is an SLR camera? A terrorist would use a camera phone or something that he could obscure. Or he'd simply act like all the other P&S tourists.
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with a camera like that, they'd probably assume it was a bomb! And you would still have the problem of people intruding on the shot (unless of course you wanted them there) with the added problem of wasting film when that happens. And finally you wouldn't have the dynamic range ability since you couldn't exposure blend. All of this while the sun is rapidly setting. Sometimes environmental factors affect your ability to take the
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Quite late actually. 9:45pm according to my EXIF. Remember though that we're practically right on the summer solstice here, and London is quite northern. It was early dusk. Exposure blending has lightened the foreground slightly though, without overexposing the sky. If you look at the sky you can see
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stitching errors on the ground, but so small that it almost isn't even a pixel out of alignment, it is more the anti-aliasing is out of alignment! I could mask them too, but I don't think I'll bother. :-) I couldn't take this shot from a higher point unless I had a really big ladder that I could put
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Same thing happened to me in Paris. Since rise of terrorism, we are not allowed to take any picture on any train station anymore (but it's easy get an authorization). Silly thing, if I really wanted to spy, I would choose a P&S camera over a giant camera+lens+tripod combination. But on the other
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Yep, its absolutely ridiculous.. Thing thats different about Canary Wharf though... Its private property. I actually work in Canary Wharf at the moment and wasn't even aware of that. The entire development isn't actually public land. In this case, you don't have the same rights to take photos as you
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You're welcome to try. A medium format camera won't really change anything significantly though. You would still need to stitch multiple frames together to get the field of view (about 150-160 degrees in this case I think) and perspective. Also, you would be hassled by security guards even more so
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Have you noticed the stitching errors on the foremost part of the ground too ? ;) I also agree with Daniel on the perspective correction. I believe we "naturally correct" perspective so we see two parallel lines as actually diverging. Had you taken the same pic from a higher point, it would have
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I went to great lengths to avoid them, actually. It took about 45 minutes for me to take a sequence completely free of people! This is an exposure blend so any people in the frame would end up as ghosts as they moved between each exposure.
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It wouldn't bother me to see this image on the main page, but it's too crafted without the beauty of a large format camera. All I can think while looking at this image is taking out the 4X5 and getting it set up perfectly.
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