Introduction

Here are the monochrome photos of the River God Statue from my visit to Newcastle last Friday. I will post the colour versions which I like equally in a separate post.

You can find some information about the statue here. It is perched on one of the walls of the Civic Centre building in Newcastle upon Tyne.

The photos were taken at night when the statue and the civic centre are lit in using spotlights. This presented some difficulties due to the dynamic range between the very dark shadows and bright lamps. I had to use a minimum ISO setting of 6400 to capture shadow detail and this did create a lot of noise.

They were processed in the excellent Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 (get it free here).

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Camera: Nikon D800 with Nikon 16-35mm/4 lens.

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Photo Credits: All photos are my own unless otherwise stated and free for you to use under the terms of Steemit4free.

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Some of my other recent posts

• A Few Abstract Paintings - feel free to use in your posts if you like them
• More War Memorial Shots for Remembrance Sunday - free photos for you to use in your posts.
• Some wider angle portrait shots of Rachelle - free photos for you to use in your own posts
• Trump wins the election - so should we panic? (Spoiler: No!))
• Can anything ever be truly "FREE"?

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