I love old bridges. They have such wonderful grace and style. I wished that bridges built today had the same style.
I submitted this photo at our last Honor’s Night at Bay Area Photo Club. Even though I like the photo a lot, I was surprised that it scored as high as it did. Why? Well, I was worried that our judges might get caught-up with bluish color-cast of the photo. I had taken great care when I was taking the photo to set the white balance so that the blue color-cast (which was what I was seeing) would be reflected in my photo. Second, HDR photos are not always well received by our judges. I think that the judges see them has gimmicks or “photo-by-computer-program.” I think that can be the case but overall I think most of the photographers at the club who utilize HDR do a pretty good job using the program.
I wanted this photo to show the subtle nature of the scene.
Enjoy.
Camera settings: Nikon D3, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 shot at 28mm, ISO 200, f/13 and at nine different shutter speeds.Post Processing:
Lightroom 3—Set black and white points, cropped photos, and changed, added saturation of certain colors vignetting.
Photomatix Pro—combined six of the nine exposures and tone mapped the result
Photoshop CS5—removed minor distracting element, adjusted overall mid-tone contrast and sharpened the bridge using the high pass method.
I think you captured a very romanic image of the bridge. It might be interesting to see if you could show the bridge in a lot of different lights.
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Pretty scene but it appears a little dark on my computer.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
You definitely captured an early morning feeling with this one. I wished that there was a part of the photo that drew my eye to it. My eye seems to wonder all over the photo without landing on a particular point.
ReplyDeleteAnne
I think this photo provides a great feel for life in the Northwest. I remember many a day like this one. I like it.
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