We are often called upon to shoot projects in the City of London. The ‘Square Mile’ has a dramatic cityscape, along with hidden gems at street-level too. We’ve created 360 virtual tours, stills and gigapixel panoramas at and of many of the City of London’s most iconic buildings: the Barbican, Lloyds of London and the Guildhall, The Shard (OK, not strictly in the City, but close enough!), the Bank of England and Tower Bridge.
We are often called upon to shoot cityscapes from the City of London’s many skyscrapers. These include the Leadenhall Building (‘the Cheesegrater’, St Mary Axe (‘the Gherkin’) and The Shard.
These can be for a wide variety of purposes from advertising and marketing collateral for building owners, right through to virtual tours of commercial property for agents.
Please explore some of the various projects and shoots we’ve done in the City of London below.
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London Skyline: Day / Night Transition
Eye Revolution photographer Will Pearson has been shooting the skyline in London from the Shard since it was under construction. These London skyline 360 images were shot from the top for The View from the Shard. You can click straight in to see the day / night transition. Or, if you’d like to find out…
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St Magnus the Martyr
Church virtual tour: bringing one of London’s historic Wren churches to a global audience We were honoured to be selected to produce a church virtual tour of this historic Wren building. For over 600 years, St Magnus was the church that welcomed visitors who crossed into the City of London via the original, medieval London…
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Law Firm Virtual Tour – Mayer Brown London
To dive straight in to this law firm virtual tour, please click the ‘View 360 Virtual Tour’ button. We were delighted to be commissioned by Mayer Brown, one of the world’s biggest law firms, to create a virtual tour. Having recently created a new client services suite at their London offices, Mayer Brown wanted to…
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Commercial Property Brochure
Marketing Commercial Property In a world that’s moving from print to digital we create engaging content that helps drive sales. A traditional printed commercial property brochure has its place in the mix, but is now simply an expected element. To create stand-out, digital content that adds value and vitality is key. New Street Square, City…
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London Skyline: Enhanced Gigapixel
Articlating space beautifully can be a struggle. We’ve created a suite of tools to help simply manage and display content in an attractive and intuitive way. This examples makes use of an enhanced gigapixel to present content to an audience. In this demo, a gigapixel cityscape is used as an opening movie. When you click…
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Fine Art Photography Site Launches
Fine Art Photography At the heart of interactive 360 media is photography. Whilst that may sound obvious, bear with us for a moment! The technology that displays 360 virtual tours changes and evolves quickly, but superb photography will last on. Back in 2008 we created the first in a series of 360s for the Royal…
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Aerial 360 Tours in the Heart of the City
We were lucky enough to shoot aerial 360 tours from the top of 30 St Mary Axe (widely known as ‘The Gherkin’). Here you can explore the images at various times of day and read a little more about the challenges of the shoot. The Brief We were briefed by the lovely folk at…
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Drone 360 – Abney Park Aerial Photography
Drone 360 We’ve been out testing with our drones over Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington. We are testing different set-ups to overcome the challenges of drone 360 photography. Images from a drone can be compromised by these challenges – for example, you only get a short fly time, the drones have a tendency to…
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City Three Peaks VR
On Monday 7 September 2015, a select few individuals will undertake the longest civilian abseil in history – The City Three Peaks. They will abseil down The Leadenhall Building (The Cheesegrater), 20 Fenchurch Street (The Walkie Talkie) and 30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin) – the first time members of the public have ever had…
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M&S Christmas Campaign: a gigapixel treasure hunt
This year, M&S have created a storm on social media with their festive ‘Follow the Fairies’ treasure hunt campaign. The campaign idea The fairies, ‘Magic’ & ‘Sparkle’, perform random acts of kindness, such as the Cornish primary children getting into school and finding it magically covered in snow! Initially, the two fairies were anonymous, and…
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Inside the Bank of England
Bank of England Virtual Tour The Bank of England has allowed access to its hidden treasures, virtually. Eye Revolution were asked to shoot a 360 virtual tour of the Bank, working with Clay Interactive. For the first time we were able to see the vast reserves of gold and banknotes stored in the depths of…
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Deep Zoom View from The Shard
Eye Revolution founder Will Pearson’s interactive 360 Shard images are featured in The Guardian today. The interactive interface shows the images in a deep zoom format, allowing users to really get up close and see the detail, as well as click on hotspots and experience an audio journey around London. Click here to view the…
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VR View from the Crane Above The Shard
I was fortunate enough to photograph the amazing panoramas of London afforded by the tallest building in the UK, the Shard, while it was under construction. This wasn’t your standard location to shoot from, on a crane peering out of a building site, and getting up there wasn’t straightforward. On a cold dark November evening…
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Guildhall, City of London
The Guildhall is the administrative and ceremonial centre of the City of London. The building itself has parts dating from 1411. It is sited on the foundations of a Roman amphitheatre. The London Roman Amphitheatre was built in 70AD and only discovered in 1988. It is now a scheduled monument displayed in situ in the…
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Barbican Centre Virtual Tour
Barbican Centre virtual tour showing the entrance to the centre itself, part of the Barbican Estate in the City of London. The Barbican Centre describes itself as the largest multi-arts centre in Europe and it boasts 2 dedicated theatres, a 2,000 seat hall, 2 galleries, conference suites, exhibition halls, private function rooms, three restaurants and…