Posts Tagged ‘bridge’
Project 365:TWO-HUNDRED-SEVENTY-THREE
The Bridge
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More Kids in the Park
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Supporting Cast
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Blatant
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365:ONE-HUNDRED-THREE
Nouvel Angle
A week ago I discovered a new vantage point for the Ravenel Bridge here in Charleston. Tonight’s image is from that point and with the 80-200mm f/2.8 L at 80mm and f/8.0. I like this angle, but I’m not sure there is room at the spot to do anything more interesting like a portrait. I might try it, though, in the near future.
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365:NINETY-NINE
Matt
I’m still processing images from my son’s visit over the holiday weekend. Here is another shot near the Ravenel bridge here in Charleston. I may be biased, but it seems to me that Matt is a natural in front of a camera lens. Maybe its the ease of expression. I don’t know. Some people are just easy to make good photographs with.
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365:FORTY-EIGHT
Reflections
Another view of the Ravenel Bridge from downtown Charleston, SC. The lighting used on the bridge is fascinating. You can read about it here.
I spent some time today learning new sharpening and noise reduction techniques in post processing. I used a few of them on this image and found they are much more effective than what I have previously been doing. With more time to fine tune, this image could really clean up well and be a fine art print. I’ve still plenty to learn first!
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365:NINETEEN
Ravenel
Lesson for the day: Know your equipment. Read the manual. A lot! I had planned this for an HDR image. I took plenty of exposures thinking I had auto-bracketing on, with the base exposure at -1 EV. I was also using the 2-second timer and mirror lock-up. Somehow that combination did not add up into bracketed exposures and I ended up with groups of three of the same image.
In my favor was that I’d set the base exposure for -1 EV so that the bridge was not blown out completely and could be salvaged in post.
Still, the HDR will be far more dramatic. I think I’ll try this same shot next week with proper exposure bracketing.
365:TWELVE
Ahead
Sometimes things just don’t work. I tried. I learned.
Lesson for the day: ”No! No different. Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned. No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Yoda
****Updated*** So I did a little research to see where I could have improved this shot. My first problem was the white balance discord between the strobe and ambient lights. I had a 1/4 CTO on the strobe, but discovered I had left the camera on Auto White Balance; hence the green bridge and yellowish-orange path lights. This should have been a 3/4 or full CTO and a custom White Balance of ~3200k. I had done some test shots without the strobe for ambient levels and found AWB showing ~3500k. Cool that down just a bit and then warm up the subject and I’d have been a lot closer to the shot I was looking for. If anyone has any other ideas for color correction of this type of shot, I’d love to hear them.
The next problem is the soft subject. This is easily rectified by simply focusing on a stand-in subject in the composition. Well…either that or use one of David Hobby’s patented Voice Activated Camera Releases (aka an assistant)!
Last, I need a new subject. This one seems a bit morose! 
“Always in motion is the future.” Yoda
