Another bridge

[bigbob]

Well xmas is over and the weathers dull to say the least , so i thought i'd just go back and process a shot i've been meaning to do all year .
I was going to enter this in the Salon contest , but was beaten to it with this bridge .
Taken back in April this shot of the millenium bridge over the Thames was taken early on a Sunday morning .
I've increased the saturation a touch and cloned out 3 red cranes from the horizon.

B..

[Tom]

Re: Another bridge

The dark triangle in the foreground provides the impact here for me and leads the eye accross the bridge very well.
I feel the people in the distance are not an asset in this case but I'm sure this all opens up wonderfully well on the full size version.

[Ian]

Re: Another bridge

Well xmas is over and the weathers dull to say the least , so i thought i'd just go back and process a shot i've been meaning to do all year .
I was going to enter this in the Salon contest , but was beaten to it with this bridge .
Taken back in April this shot of the millenium bridge over the Thames was taken early on a Sunday morning .
I've increased the saturation a touch and cloned out 3 red cranes from the horizon.

B..

I've not seen this perspective before - though I have seen several like this one of Danny Chau's:

The sky's blue hue in your picture doesn't look very natural too me, though?

Ian

[bigbob]

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Thanks for the comments , i did the conversion on my laptop which is uncalibrated , it looked fine , now i'm back home i can see your point about the sky colour .
While i was cloning out the cranes i thought about the people as well , but i left them in because i thought they would add a sense of scale
Dannys shot reminded me of a similar one i took on the same day , same perspective but not as many people about .
I've already PM 'ed Danny about the closeness of our two shots

B..

[Stephen]

Re: Another bridge

Well xmas is over and the weathers dull to say the least , so i thought i'd just go back and process a shot i've been meaning to do all year .
I was going to enter this in the Salon contest , but was beaten to it with this bridge .
Taken back in April this shot of the millenium bridge over the Thames was taken early on a Sunday morning .
I've increased the saturation a touch and cloned out 3 red cranes from the horizon.

B..

Hi Bigbob, I like the picture and have a similar one also taken on a Sunday morning, before the crowds arrived.

I often find that instead of adding saturation to the sky, I simply make a well feathered selection and use Curves to darken the sky a bit. I find for me this gives a more pleasing result.

[Tinka]

Re: Another bridge

Hi BB, hope you had a great holiday,
A great image, I like the way the elements of the image take you into and across the bridge, The sky does look a little contrived, but that does not spoil the image to much for me, I have been to busy with the family to get on the net so have a lot of browsing to do to catch up with all the posts.

[bigbob]

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Thanks Tinka .
Stephen i did exactly the same as you do to the sky , but then it still looked a bit flat so i upped the saturation a touch (proberbly too much ).
This bridge has so many possabilities that it's hard to know where to start , but you must get there before it's filled up with commutors

B..

[Stephen]

Re: Another bridge

Thanks Tinka .
Stephen i did exactly the same as you do to the sky , but then it still looked a bit flat so i upped the saturation a touch (proberbly too much ).
This bridge has so many possabilities that it's hard to know where to start , but you must get there before it's filled up with commutors

B..

Yes I would agree with you. However it has to be said that I prefer the Hungerford pedestrian bridge further up river. Much more spectacular for photography IMO

[guymclaren]

Re: Another bridge

That brings back memories, I broke my elbow on the hungerford bridge about 6 years ago, took a tumble off my Razr Scoot