Others have asked about the thing in the bottom of the frame - it is a surfboarder holding the kite to propel him around. He was all over around the bottom of the bridge while I was there. The ropes were fairly long so he doesn't show up too much.
I played around some with the saturation/contrast and curves to get it to this point. I may play around some more. The tricky part was that when the fog was lightened too much, it didn't come across as well. The lighting presented is about how I saw it. The general relationship I was trying to capture was an obscured bridge with a hint of sunlight out in the bay - trying to show the changing conditions. I also found the bridge rather fascinating just sticking up out of the fog. The boat was planned - there were quite a few different boats going through at different times. I ended up shooting 17 frames from several vantage points. I can't say that this one clearly jumped out as being the absolute best of the bunch. I'll probably go through them several times to see if there are any other equal or better images. I appreciate all your comments. -- Bruce Monday, September 25, 2006, 2:28:20 PM, you wrote: SB> Nice one, Bruce. As someone else commented, a little more SB> contrast/saturation may help - try playing around with it. Lose the SB> bird-like thing in the lower center and then there will be more focus on SB> the boat running under the bridge, which, imo, is an important part of the SB> pic. Just curious, how many frames did you shoot - were you looking for SB> any particular fog/bridge relationship? Were you thinking about the boat SB> speeding under the bridge and where it would best be placed? SB> I ask this in part because I photographed a cabin in the fog a while back, SB> and made about fifty exposures in order to have many choices of how the fog SB> would look in the final print, sometimes I just snapped a few in succession SB> while the wind was blowing, sometimes I waited for a particular look, SB> likewise for tree branches in the wind, which I see as somewhat akin to the SB> boat. SB> Shel >> [Original Message] >> From: Bruce Dayton >> I thought it interesting to see the fog blowing into the bay. The >> Golden Gate Bridge is partially shrouded but you can still see out in >> the bay, some sun that hasn't been obscured yet. >> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_3439.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
