steve_t.1 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 <p>Now that I've figured out how to stick a photo on this board (I think), I should get to posting some pics. Nothing is edited on the 'puter yet other than size. Calibration device is on order. Hope they look okay on your end.</p> <p>This first one is from below the new I-35W bridge crossing the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. This is the bridge that collapsed August 2007, new bridge up in under a year. Quite a thing. The belly of the bridge has a fancy lighting system, different colors can be programmed. Second and third photos (same, just a crop) are looking at downtown Minneapolis from the historic Stone Arch Bridge. It was a Saturday night (duh!), so few building lights were on, buildings lit only be ambient street lighting. City feels asleep with no pedestrians around- it was about 7:30pm. Early December just before our first real snow, but it was sure cold, just above zero F. Both shots with the new K20D, Tamron 18-250 lens.</p> <p><img src="http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p26/stevet_010/IMGP0076.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="532" /></p> <p><img src="http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p26/stevet_010/IMGP0111.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="532" /></p> <p><img src="http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p26/stevet_010/IMGP0111crop-1.jpg" alt="" width="799" height="340" /></p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgredline Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 <p><img src="http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp128/jgredline/fantastico.jpg"> well done!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_t.1 Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 <p>Thanks!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roseberry guitars Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 <p>Beautiful Steve. Well done.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melvin_tan3 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 <p>I knew these pictures look familiar. I was there once upon a time and went to the same bridge because of the nice lighting. Good shots.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagar Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 <p>Nice ones Steve.. I like 1 and 2.. Good capture of the lights under the bridge.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
personalphotos Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 <p>Very nice. One and two are great shots. A city at night offers a ton of possiblity and something worth exploring when our usual subjects are kinda dull in mid winter.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shots worth sharing Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 <p>Nice work! It's nice to know the camera functions at zero (even if I don't ;~)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_t.1 Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 <p>Thanks, Folks!!</p> <p>Steve.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewg_ny Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 <p>Nice images. I'd like to visit Minneapolis some day. New bridge with fancy-schmantzy lighting in only a year? If only all public works projects had a greater sense of urgency.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_tripp Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 <p>Wow, great job, can you share your camera settings?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_elenko Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 <p>Steve T.-<br> Nice form and color on number one. You get bonus points for ambition and bravery for shooting in that environment. The bridge as you shot it looks like a sci-fi set. The more I look at it, the more is revealed. Very cool and cold.<br> ME</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_t.1 Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 <p>Dan- camera settings were:<br> Bridge- manual mode, F-4, 3 seconds, ISO 100, 27mm focal length (40mm equiv. in 35mm film).<br> Downtown- manual mode, F-9.5, 15 seconds, ISO 100, 21mm focal length (31mm equiv.)<br> Note all these settings were happy coincidence that things turned out. I can read all the books I want, but I still learn best by doing, hoping I'm applying a smidgen of what I read! Can you tell that I often forget about the ISO setting? Winter night and I'm shooting at 100. Hey, it worked.</p> <p>Andrew- I agree on the remarkable speed of this bridge rebuilding project. I know this is a photo site, but I'll share a little info on the project. 6pm, Aug 1, 2007. Complete and sudden failure of a 65 foot high, 450+ foot long span, 8 lanes wide. 13 dead, some 100 or so injured. (Would have been worse, but 50% of the bridge lanes were closed for road construction at the time of collapse.) About 10 days to recover all bodies. About 6 weeks to clear the site. 11 months from ground breaking to opening for traffic. (I was at the front of the line on my motorcycle at 5am the day they opened the new bridge. If it would have been raining at the time of collapse, I likely would have been on the bridge at the fateful moment. Long story on that... I guess I have a special connection with this bridge. Weird, huh?) 24/7 construction schedule for the entire project, except for Christmas day and a few-hour shut down on the collapse anniversary day. 600+ workers on site each day at the peak of construction. New bridge is 500 feet long, 10 lanes wide plus extra width to grow with more lanes or light rail. Here's a link to the MN Dept. of Trans. website talking all about the bridge, tons of info here about the old one, the new one, and even the NTSB investigation report.<br> http://www.dot.state.mn.us/i35wbridge/index.html<br> And a link to take you to photos of the aftermath, starting the next day. Incredible.<br> http://www.dot.state.mn.us/i35wbridge/photos/</p> <p>I have a feeling I'll be taking more photos here when the weather is more cooperative.<br> Steve.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegard_nervik Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 <p>Beautiful!! Composition, lighting everything. It shows that low ISO and long exposure gives such nice atmosphere to the images. Need to get out and do something similar myself, but it will be difficult to copy this.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegard_nervik Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 <p>Beautiful!! Composition, lighting everything. It shows that low ISO and long exposure gives such nice atmosphere to the images. Need to get out and do something similar myself, but it will be difficult to copy this.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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