Smith & Bell, Houston, TX

This shot harks back to one of my favourite images of the last few years (which you can see here). I love that image but wished I had a slightly wider lens to get the whole of the elevated walkway in the forground. During my trip back to Houston this week, I took the 15mm fisheye and spent quite some time in the area of the Smith & Bell junction shooting through the skywalk. This is taken from the opposite side of the junction and I’ve left it as a colour image since the sky was nothing like as interesting this time round as it was on the previous visit.

As with the image I posted yesterday, this was created from a collection of separate exposures using Photomatix Exposure Blending followed by a significant amount of Lightroom tweaking.

Posted on Sunday, May 8th, 2011 in: All Images, Architecture, HDR, Travel, Architecture, building, city, dusk, houston, night, skyline, skyscraper, Smith, street, texas, tx

Exif Information

ApertureValue: f/8
ShutterSpeedValue: 1/44 sec
ISOSpeedRatings: 200
FocalLength: 15 mm
Model: NIKON D700

Comments (13)

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Curt Fleenor on May 8th, 2011 at 8:24 pm

Amazing shot, Dave!
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Scott on May 9th, 2011 at 4:51 am

Really digging the processing! The walkway in the foreground is totally keeping my attention.
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Steve Beal on May 9th, 2011 at 8:12 am

Beautifully framed and processed shot!
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A.Barlow on May 9th, 2011 at 8:31 am

Nice shot. Very crisp. I think if you went wider you might have to deal with allot of distortion. Although, some of the shots coming from the 11mm range look really cool
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Brian Furbush on May 9th, 2011 at 8:39 am

Wow Dave – REALLY pretty shot and great comp. Love the natural-looking HDR processing as well – great style.
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Dave Wilson on May 9th, 2011 at 9:13 am

Thanks, all.

Aaron – this was shot using a 15mm fisheye on a full-frame body so it’s already extremely distorted. The central building looks OK since it’s near the middle of the frame but you can see the curvature on the buildings on either side.
Chris Frailey on May 9th, 2011 at 10:46 am

Sweet shot. Great comp on this!
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James brandon on May 9th, 2011 at 1:42 pm

Dave this is fantastic. A true example of why fisheye lenses are awesome . The walk way could not have been captured better and I absolutely love the reflections in the building. Cheers!
John Manuel on May 9th, 2011 at 2:48 pm

Love everything about this Dave. I love photos that I have to sit and look at for a while to get my bearings – this is one of those. Fisheye is perfect for this and love that you captured the whole walkway.
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Dave Wilson on May 9th, 2011 at 3:06 pm

James – glad you like it. I suspect you’ll see a monochrome version of this at some point too.
Dave Wilson on May 9th, 2011 at 3:07 pm

Thanks, John. It took me 2 years to get back down there with the right lens but I’m glad I did. The difference between the last one (shot with a 10mm lens on a crop sensor body) and this one (15mm fisheye on a full frame body) is pretty striking. I wish, though, that I had had a repeat of the sky I had last time!
James Howe on May 9th, 2011 at 5:30 pm

Love this image!
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Dave Wilson on May 10th, 2011 at 1:41 pm

I’m still trying to catch up with your amazing “GM Headquarters” shot, Jim!