Four bridges in double time
This is the Millenium bridge, with Southwark bridge, Cannon St rail bridge (with the train on it), and Tower bridge in the background. I saw the possibility of this shot while taking some of the earlier photos of Blackfriars bridge, but it clearly required a long telephoto to get the effect. I went back the next week with a 300mm, but it was still too short - it seemed to need a 400-500, not natively achievable on Fuji or Olympus bodies. Hmmm. To get the extra length, I bought a Metabones Nikon G to 4/3rds adapter - this has aperture adjustment in the adapter so works with G lenses. Paired with my 70-300G Full Frame Nikon zoom, this gave up to 600mm on an Olympus 4/3rds. The adapter (which is beautiful) took over a week to arrive, but finally I was able to go back and run the shot properly yesterday. ggggThe focal length is about 450mm, with the bridges, walkers and sky exposed at about 1/80, and the water for 3.5 minutes. The overall camera/lens combo weighs 1.5Kg, but I was able to mount it on a Gorillapod Focus GP8 and get excellent stability. This top end Gorillapod is excellent by the way, made out of aluminium, not plastic, and very strong. Finally, I aligned, masked and merged the images in Photoshop, and then did local adjustments in Lightroom.
