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Railroad Bridge
Started July 4, 2009 @ 11:55am by wingspar
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wingspar
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| Railroad Bridge | July 4, 2009 @ 11:55am | I took this and processed it back in August 2003 with a D100 and a cheap lens. It’s been one of my favorite B&W images from my digital photography. Used to do exclusively B&W film back in the 70's, but got away from it.
Gary
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Flo
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| July 4, 2009 @ 1:23pm | Gary, I'm glad you reposted this lovely B&W here. I could look at it for a long time, except I also get the heebie-jeebies, thinking that at any time a train could be about to overtake me from behind! Is there a safe place to run to?
Flo - PPY
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wingspar
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| July 4, 2009 @ 1:47pm | Environmental regulations over the last few years have made trains much quieter. I did not know that till a train came from behind me out in the country a couple of years ago. I was on the tracks shooting photos in the opposite direction the train came from while waiting for a train. I had to move pretty fast to get out of the way, and barely had time to snap a shot of the engine before it whizzed by about 20 feet from me. I could see about ½ mile or more down the tracks in the direction the train came from to give some perspective to the situation. This particular bridge is in a large city, and trains would be moving slow, and it’s probably unlikely trains would come from both directions at the same time, and you can see down the tracks quite a ways. I wasn’t too far from the end of the bridge in back of me when I took this shot. A train came from behind me after I took this photo, and I had plenty of time to causally walk off the bridge.
Gary
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| July 4, 2009 @ 5:16pm | Ahem,
Famous Last Words:
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and it’s probably unlikely trains would come from both directions at the same time... |
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Man I would hate to see that happen please take extra care in the future
Its a lovely image that gives me this feeling of being unbalanced as I look at it. I almost unconsciously begin to lean to the right.
Thanks for sharing it Wingspar
Danny
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wingspar
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| July 4, 2009 @ 8:56pm |
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Its a lovely image that gives me this feeling of being unbalanced as I look at it. I almost unconsciously begin to lean to the right.
Thanks for sharing it Wingspar |
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You know, I see that leaning to the right also. I’ve learned some things since I processed this back in 2003. What I probably did was to level the horizontal beams on the bridge, which threw off the vertical beams causing the bridge to appear as tho it leans to the right. I just reprocessed it making the vertical beams below the horizontal beams vertical. I think it looks better. Unfortunately, Pbase looks like it degraded the quality, and turned it into a blurry image, so I won’t post it. Thanks for looking.
Gary
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| July 5, 2009 @ 6:15am | Gary,
I am only a beginner so am lacking in experience and technical knowhow so please feel free to dismiss the following but...
I like the image as it is, it put me off balance looking at it, the vanishing point and the lines converging are all there but they only strive to drive the unbalancing effect home.
My eye wandered all around the image trying to find something I could cling to, I felt as if I was trying to hold on, trying to stay straight but I couldn't and that to me was a very powerful reaction and what set this image apart in my mind. I think it has something to do with the railway lines, they seem to be fine at first, like an anchor to move you through the image, but you discover too late that is not the case, but only when you are already knee deep into it. I kept looking at the lines thinking is it straight or is it me?
Maybe someone with more technical experience can explain this but maybe in a very simplistic way there is a kind of M.C. Escher effect going on with the angle and perspective within the image.
However like I said thats only my opinion.
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Last Edit: July 5, 2009 @ 6:22am by Danny | |
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wingspar
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| July 5, 2009 @ 1:46pm |
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Maybe someone with more technical experience can explain this but maybe in a very simplistic way there is a kind of M.C. Escher effect going on with the angle and perspective within the image. |
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I do agree with you about the tilt. If I get downtown this summer, I’ll see if I can reshoot this bridge, but a M.C. Escher effect?? I only wish I could duplicate his work in a photo.
Gary
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| July 6, 2009 @ 12:50pm | I was just tying to describe the feeling I was getting, the words slight optical illusion may have been better than M.C. Escher effect
Danny |
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