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Eye within the Eye :)


Eye within the Eye :)
Photo Information
Copyright: Fred NEF (Freddie) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1623 W: 126 N: 1189] (6191)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-11
Categories: Nature, Transportation, Architecture, Mood
Exposure: f/4, 1/200 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): 60 points or more ! [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-06-14 5:51
Viewed: 708
Points: 66
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Can you see the Blue Eye within the London Eye? :)

The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is an observation wheel that completed construction in 1999 and opened to the public in March, 2000. As of June 2007, it is the largest observation wheel in the world, although ferris wheels such as The Star of Nanchang are larger.

The London Eye has become the most popular paid for UK visitor attraction, visited by over 3.5 million people a year.

The London Eye stands 135 metres (443 feet) high on the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, England, between Westminster and Hungerford Bridges.

The wheel carries 32 sealed and air-conditioned passenger capsules attached to its external circumference. Each capsule holds approximately 25 people. It rotates at 0.26 metres (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes. The wheel does not usually stop to take on passengers: the rotation rate is so slow that they can easily walk on and off the moving capsules at ground level. It is, however, stopped to allow disabled or elderly passengers time to embark and disembark safely.

The rim of the Eye is supported by tie rods and resembles a huge spoked bicycle wheel, and was depicted as such in a poster advertising a charity cycle race.

The wheel was constructed in sections which were floated up the Thames on barges and assembled lying flat on pontoons. Once the wheel was complete it was raised into an upright position by cranes, being lifted at 2 degrees an hour until it reached 65 degrees. It was left in that position for a week while engineers prepared for the second phase of the lift. The total weight of steel in the Eye is 1,700 tonnes.

-WIki

Composition:
POV: near Westminster bridge
Exposure Time: 1/202
F-Stop: f/4.0
Focal Length: 7300/1000 mm
Metering Mode: Pattern

Pp work:
1. crop
2. Use levels to bring the vivid colors out
3. add round blue eye on the wheel center as signature, resize the width of the eye to sync in w/ the oval center :)
4. add lettering on the corner for a Postcard look :)
5. sharpen and resize

Quote of the Day:
"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?"
-Ansel Adams, "The Best of Popular Photography" by Harvey V. Fondiller, page 280
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Critiques [Translate]

Hi Freddie

Another great shot of this monster and a cool POV too. Maybe just slightly over exposed at the base but overall another excellent shot.

TFS regards Helen

Hi Fred:)
This is wonderful shot! Very beautiful compo and brilliant colours.Congrats!!
Cordial Greetings,
Deniz:)

Great photo... nice POV... love the colours and composition... and soo beautiful sky :) TFS

great colours and what a dramatic sky
well composed and captured
many TFS it
ili :o)

hello! wonderful shot! excellent POV!wonderful colours of the sky! well done!TFS
greetings Aga:)

Hi Fred,
Nice photo, well composed and enjoy the texture of the coulds. Great job!

-JD

Great work, good colors and details!well done!

Hi Fed:
The first thing is that your capture with those building in the far background and bridge give me a perspective of this huge wheel:)
very shar with lots of details, and thak you for the education.
David

This one is great! nice colors and composition.

  • Great 
  • Shogun Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 869 W: 52 N: 415] (10086)
  • [2007-06-14 15:14]
  • [+]

nice Fred! ganda ng composition and tones, pang postcard. Nice! Tfs

Oggie

  • Great 
  • Beger Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2983 W: 553 N: 3289] (14608)
  • [2007-06-14 22:09]
  • [+]

Hi Fred,
Wonderful photo! Excellent POV on this big wheel against a stormy sky. Impressive lighting and colors. I like much! Bravo! Annie

hi there, thanks for tyour comments, this is a grea tshot , one of the best of this structure i have seen ,looks like awesome light and awesome clouds, well done
thanks again
scott from vancouver

A very lurvely pick-chah!

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  • Niva Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 875 W: 0 N: 417] (5743)
  • [2007-06-14 23:55]
  • [+]

Hi Fred,
A well done photo in a good frame and beautiful colors. Amazing to see it, something new in London!
Greetings,
Nivaldo

Hihi ! Very well done !
Indeed, the colours are very vivid
Should be a nice postcard LOL

Greetz

Jan

Hello Freddie, very nice lighting and compo, excellent work, congratulations

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  • AMKA Gold Star Critiquer [C: 85 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2007-06-15 15:31]
  • [+]

Hi Freddie :)
It's perfect...what can i say..everything is there..
I salute you my friend...
You also a good writer...

TFS,
:-D
AMKA

Very dramatic shot of the London Eye...and very creative with the eye in the eye. Great sky

TFS

Karan

hi Fred..
..this is very interesting view..
Composition and realization are great!!
this eye looks wonderful on this sky!!
Good efect and POV..
Thanks..
m..

Wonderful, great lighting & dark sky bkgrd. I like the added touch of the eye too. :} Don

Hi Fred
Great shot. Nice composition and tones
Regards
Alina

Hello Fred!
Really great light in your composition!
Beautiful colours, fantastic sky and nice perspective!
Excellent done!
Lili

Hi Freddie,

très belle image, avec un très beau ciel rempli de relief.
Marie

Merhaba Fred
Perfect clouds. Very nice colors.
Good work. Thanks for sharring.

Kerem

i love the eye
and this shot is excellent
very good job
tfs
M
:-)

colours are just fantastic

Anjhello Scoring System:
DOF - 3 POV - 3 CREATIVITY - 3 COMPOSITION - 3
LIGHTING - 3 SHARPNESS - 3 COLORS - 3

Average: 3.00

Range:
1 point: Average < 1.99
2 points: Average > 2.00

Scoring System:
1 Good 2 Better 3 Best

tfs!

Well composed photo! I like the lighting on the EYE and how it stands out in the photo ...
Regards,

*** Ursula ***

Hello Freddie,
nice POV and good exposure showing one of the most recent attractions in the UK. Good to have the other buildings and objects for scale. TFS Thomas.

Nice one, though i think it is overexposed a bit...otherwise great concept indee.

TFS,
Grace

nice picture you took
i like it very much
teh light ist great and the colours too
well done
Toba

An amazing capture. Such good colours in this!

An eye for an eye - Very nice Fred. Great sky as a background for the big wheel. Nice composition and satuaration in the evening sun. TFS

Dan

  • Great 
  • eMBeer Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 253 W: 61 N: 182] (1244)
  • [2007-11-27 23:27]

Hi Fred,

I've seen many photo of this object, but yours is very interesting and very well composed. The contrast of the wheel against the dark, scary sky makes this shot. I like very much the clear composition of this shot. tfs

Marek

Great capture of the London Eye. It's beautiful, clear, sharp, it has everything that a photo needs. Nice POV!

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