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Miracles in Low Light

A city that never sleeps
Simon Frohn's kinetic view of London's Tower Bridge captures the dizzying pulse of city life. From a pedestrian passage within one of the bridge's two towers, he photographed the opposite tower looming against the black of night, with streaks of traffic whizzing by in strands of red and gold.

"I loosened the panoramic head on my tripod and tilted the camera so the lights of the cars created diagonal lines that lead a viewer's eye from the corner to the center of the picture," Frohn explains.

To use the roof above him as a framing element for the tower beyond, he mounted his widest lens, a rectilinear fisheye.

Final touches were added in postproduction. Because the far tower was so brightly lit, he used High Dynamic Range imaging in Adobe Photoshop, compositing several exposures between 2 and 20 seconds long to hold detail in both the scene's highlights and shadows.

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