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    Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Marie

    Old Railway Bridge between Sault Ste Marie Canada and Sault Ste Marie USA that crosses the St Marys River. The river connects two of the Great Lakes; Lake Huron and Lake Superior. The railway connects the USA to the the Essar Steel Algoma plant.



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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    A classic shot!

    Vanishing point close to the Golden Ratio ... must be an accident ...
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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    Just great!
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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    Quote Originally Posted by xpatUSA View Post
    must be an accident ...
    Absolutely 100% a coincidence. I cropped the image so that it will print on a 17" x 22" piece of paper. I cropped bottom of the image and this is where it came out.

    Here's the SOOC image:

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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    Manfred, very nice photograph.


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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    Wow, one of your very best, Manfred, IMO! Love it! Am very jealous. Would really like to share.

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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    Love everything about this one.

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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    Quote Originally Posted by Manfred M View Post
    Absolutely 100% a coincidence. I cropped the image so that it will print on a 17" x 22" piece of paper. I cropped bottom of the image and this is where it came out.

    Here's the SOOC image:

    Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Marie
    Thanks for showing the original composition, Manfred.

    Is dead-center a "rule" for a railway, road, etc. single vanishing point?

    Under what circumstances might it be placed at other than dead-center?

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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    Quote Originally Posted by xpatUSA View Post
    Is dead-center a "rule" for a railway, road, etc. single vanishing point?
    Not that I am aware of.

    I went through my working life looking at a lot of engineering drawings using orthographic projection (i.e. viewed straight on, whether that be from the front, from the side or from the top), so I will often use a straight on view when photographing man-made structures. I worked this scene quite hard and have many different shots of this bridge taken from different positions.



    Quote Originally Posted by xpatUSA View Post
    Under what circumstances might it be placed at other than dead-center?
    To quote my photographic composition instructor, "when it works".

    I don't consciously use the general composition rules in my work. I look at an scene and try to figure out how to capture it, will process it and print it before I taken the shot. Symmetry, contrast, colour contrast, lines, etc. are all processed subconsciously. In this image, I suspect I liked the way the rails turn in at the bottom of the frame (i.e. the part I ended up cropping out).

    I generally pay a lot of attention to distracting elements and the use of space. I stick to rules a bit more when doing portraiture; not so much because of the rules, but because they are a way of preventing distracting elements being built into the shot.

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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    A beautiful image

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    Re: Old Railway Bridge - Sault Sainte Mairie

    Much prefer the composition of the cropped version

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