English: Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) from the dome on Methodist Central Hall. The tower is 96m high. The Shard, behind, is 306m.
Photographer's notes: The image is stitched from 57 frames in approximately ten rows of six in landscape orientation. The viewpoint is the platform near the top of the dome on the Methodist Central Hall which is equal in height to the bottom of the clock face, and 400m distant. A Sony A77II camera was used with Sony 55-300mm lens at 300mm. The exposure was f/5.6, 1/500s and ISO 320. The camera has hand-held. The dome is only open to the public once a year on Open House London weekend. This viewpoint is rare in that most ground-level views suffer from vertical perspective distortions and most distant or elevated views are somewhat obstructed.
NOTE: This image is a panorama consisting of 57 frames that were merged or stitched in Hugin. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulation. These manipulations may include blending, blurring, cloning, and colour and perspective adjustments. As a result of these adjustments, the image content may be slightly different from reality at the points where multiple images were combined. This manipulation is often required due to lens, perspective, and parallax distortions.
This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Stitched image had gap in the sky in the top corners. This was content-aware-filled using Photoshop CC 2014..
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