London Shoot & Orbs
Despite the rain, several hardy POTN members (plus a few guests) made the trek to the Gherkin this past Saturday evening. The initial plan was just to take a few well intentioned shots of the city; architectural photos of some interesting land marks or bizarre/unique designs. I had brought some of my lighting gear with the intention of trying a few things out, but quickly learned I hadn’t planned well enough (for uninteresting reasons I won’t bore you with here).
Fortunately, Swaffs was on the ball and had a well working string of Christmas lights that were ideal for what I wanted to try out. In fact, he had brought it along for the very same reason. Orbing.
If you’re not familiar with these types of shots, there’s a fairly big assortment of them on Flickr. There’s a group discussion of orbing here, and Rich was kind enough to make a video of me making one of the orbs here to demystify the process even further.
There’s one or two more orb images in the gallery, plus a few more non-orb images like these two of the Gherkin and Leadenhall Market.
Tags: gherkin, ledenhall market, London, orbs