Western Towers | Weekly Photo #24
A few weeks ago, I shared a photo that I took of the City of London taken from the very top of St. Paul’s Cathedral’s Dome which you can read about here. After taking another trip to this London icon, this time around, I focused my attention on a forward-facing composition of the Western Towers which I have wanted to capture for quite some time.
Fujifilm X-T30 | XF10-24mm | 10mm | 1/8 Second | f/8 | ISO160
Photographing St. Paul’s Cathedral
Being a warm evening in August, I once again took advantage of the Thursday late opening times and got to the cathedral for 7pm. As the doors opened, I had to dart to the spiral stairs and climb up to the Stone Gallery so I could get this central position first and bunker in ready for sunset.
There isn’t a huge amount of space to shoot between the pillars in the wall that surrounds the Stone Gallery and knowing I wanted to shoot as wide as possible, I just managed to squeeze my small Manfrotto PIXI tripod through the gap with my conveniently compact Fuji X-T30 camera. If ever there was a time I was thankful for moving to a smaller camera system, it was then.
I carefully composed the image to ensure the towers were symmetrical and using my remote cable release, began shooting. I wanted to find the right balance between the ambient and city lights to add just a little more interest throughout the image.
Like many cityscape images I take of London, I don’t think I am finished with this one yet. As winter kicks in, I plan to revisit the cathedral a few more times to capture this iconic location as the light changes throughout the year.
Until next time
Trevor
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