Just a bridge

[george013]

The curved lines of the bridge and its stairs are a nice object to play with, together with the landscape under it.
I hope I succeeded.







George

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[Rebel]

Not sure about the near handrails being out of focus in the first two work for me, but I really like the last one - the zig-zagging of the bridge, reflections in the water and the colour in the graffiti all work great together!

[Sergio M.]

I do like the lines, George. They are complex images but the lines do lead the eye around the composition to different points of interest. The human element is an added plus.

Sergio

[IzzieK]

+1 to Sergio's comment. I was able to understand what I was looking at in#1 because of image #2. I thought the guy was having a hard time bringing that bicycle up the stairs and looking at #3 image, it seems like another level of stairs where he was at #2. I kinda like the story within the story here with the culmination of the set in #3 where the graffiti is well seen there...Very nice sequence if I may say so...

[MrB]

Of the first two, I prefer the composition of the second. The last one has the most potential for interest for me. The lines tend to lead towards the graffiti - the bright and lively part contrasting with an otherwise rather dull and grim scene. For that reason, I would want to lift generally the tones under the bridge and increase the saturation of the graffiti colours.

Cheers.
Philip

[Geoff F]

The first one doesn't work for me, George. A nice idea but that prominent out of focus top to the handrail ruins what could otherwise have been a good composition.

The second one isn't quite so obvious but this is still a problem. The other one looks good.

Which is much the same as Matt has already mentioned.

[george013]

The first one doesn't work for me, George. A nice idea but that prominent out of focus top to the handrail ruins what could otherwise have been a good composition.

The second one isn't quite so obvious but this is still a problem. The other one looks good.

Which is much the same as Matt has already mentioned.

That first picture was made with a Sigma 105 2.8 lens, which I was trying out. Picasa doesn't give the exif anymore for a while. The other 2 were made with the Nikon 28-70 2.8. All of them standard on f8. Camera Nikon D700.

I checked the dof calculator for the first one. Another diafragm wouldn't help much.

George

[Geoff F]

I suspect, George, your only hope with that rail in #1 would be to either shoot from further away or do a merge of 2 focus points, which would probably mean a hand edited mask to overcome subject movement.

Maybe cropping to 4 x 5 ratio or square and losing the rail plus everything to the right might be an alternative but quite a bit of impact may also be lost.