Bridge Shots! Get Your Red Hot Bridge Shots, Right Here...lol* photo

Canon DSLR Challenge | all galleries >> Challenge 45: Creative Wide Angle (hosted by Gayle Knowles) >> Eligible > Bridge Shots! Get Your Red Hot Bridge Shots, Right Here...lol*


03-JUL-2005	Traveller

Canon EOS D60
1/180s f/8.0 at 20.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto

Please do not delete, update, or otherwise edit others' entries
* Submitter retains all copyrights *

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Jul-2005 19:59
I do like this one better and appreciate the green of the water (although the best part of the other was the wonderful color of the water, which was a bit brighter than this one - sort of a glow to it). I do like the splash! It's a nice element that makes it less static - there's actually something happening in the shot. As for the tilt/distortion - perhaps you could just pull the top of the bridge to the left a bit to straighten it, which might also fix the left side of the water where the horizon seems to be creeping up a tad, and keep the bridge more onto that left line of thirds. Overall the composition is nice, with the splash leading the eye up the the bridge, then follows all the way up the bridge, comes down to the other side, and is then pulled down to the white foam which curves around to bring you right back to the wave, which starts the cycle all over again! :) ~ Lonnit

Mikel Featherston		07-Jul-2005 19:34
Kinda moody. I like it.

ctfchallenge		07-Jul-2005 12:37
I like this a lot. The sky is a classic. andy

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Jul-2005 11:55
Dear Gayle: Thanks! I have already posted elsewhere a 14 image run of this trip to SF to nice reviews. It also tells a story of sorts and unfolds nicely. I just need to complete a few more pictures and I will post this on the main Forum. I believe that you will get a real sense of the city, (but please understand, I was there less than 36 hours...this will not be the definitive SF picture run....but it will be fun. I kind of wanted to do this for Michael Puff also. Not that mine would be better than anything he would do...but different). Best Wishes, Traveller

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Jul-2005 11:44
OK, you've won my heart. My husband is from SF (a place I've never been to) and I simply adore seeing shots of his home town. Gayle

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Jul-2005 11:01
I should note that yes, this is a substitute image of the GGBridge...I hoped to add a little action with the splash in the foreground. Also, I do note that Michael Soo (as distinct from Shu, of course), has a GGB image over in Exhibition. It is lovely, it is art, but I am not sure that it is an image of the GGB either. Interestingly, I think that I saw Michael's, "Radiant," out side of Palo Alto. I stopped, ate a few more juicy apricots, stared at it for a while and decided that, No, my version would be so normal, so what is there, that I'd just leave it alone. And I happily did. Best Wishes, Traveller

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Jul-2005 11:00
I should note that yes, this is a substitute image of the GGBridge...I hoped to add a little action with the splash in the foreground. Also, I do note that Michael Soo (as distinct from Shu, of course), has a GGB image over in Exhibition. It is lovely, it is art, but I am not sure that it is an image of the GGB either. Interestingly, I think that I saw Michael's, "Radiant," out side of Palo Alto. I stopped, ate a few more juicy apricots, stared at it for a while and decided that, No, my version would be so normal, so what is there, that I'd just leave it alone. And I happily did. Best Wishes, Traveller

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Jul-2005 07:01
Thanks, Nancy, I did do arbitrary rotation 4.3 degrees to get this as straight as it is...and used the crop tool as a right angle. However, I should practice instead using the perspective function, and I appreciate that being pointed out. If I ever get any time I'll study it. Real Best Wishes, Traveller

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Jul-2005 06:54
There is a whole lot to like in this photo, Traveller. I think it's kind of hard to tell if the bridge is really leaning.... or if the effect is simply a result of the wide angeled view. I've looked at the shot three different times now, and this perspective is growing on me more each time. --Nancy/odigi

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Jul-2005 06:31
I don't mind harsh criticism, Lonnitt. But cliches are cliches for a reason...for most people they are effective and are evocative at deep psychic levels. But that is not my real criticism of your criticism...you've first got to be there to even take the image or, even more importantly, experience the cliche, ( everyone sould go out of their way to experience at least a few cliches...they're fun...lol). Being on the top of Fort Point in gale sized winds was a real kick in the butt for me...any acomplished photography was just a bonus...though of course, I wouldn't have been there without an interest in photography. This becomes after a while a chicken and egg problem. Still, I did get some telephoto images of a windsurfer going through the bridge that I would not have gotten were I not there. Regarding the photograph itself...I probably have thirty of them, meaning shots of the Golden Gate Bridge. I was cutting my way through the D60 folders and decided to try this one as opposed to an XT image...tomorrow it might be a different one. However, interestingly on this, I did discover that a polorized did cut through the heavy fog quite successfully and showed the sea as green rather than the apparent nasty slate gray. Best Wishes, Traveller

Canon DSLR Challenge		07-Jul-2005 03:15
Agreed on the title, agreed on the lean. The main problem though is that this is a subject shot a bazillion times - something new has to be done to make it worth shooting, otherwise it's just rehash and never as good as what the best have already done with it as 'straight' shots. Sorry to be so blunt. I find the bigger the kick in the 'arse, the bigger the recovery and the better next time. :) ~ Lonnit (no hard feelings I hope. If I didn't care, I'd just move on without comment.)

Guest		06-Jul-2005 23:29
Traveller, Nice image but I think that you have a little bit of a lean happening. The Perspective tool in Photoshop fixes that quite easily. Grant

Canon DSLR Challenge		06-Jul-2005 23:07
Great picture Traveller. Agree with Mikel about the title. - RK

Mikel Featherston		06-Jul-2005 20:59
I like the image, but don't care for the title. The boat does not strike me as being the subject, in any way shape or form. That said, I don't have an alternative to offer.