Sunrise - Three Bridges

I've been sea-sawing back and forth over these two shots, trying to decide if either one was worth posting as I'm not completely happy with either. Then I figured, what the heck, I haven't done a two-fer Sunday for a while and surely if neither is up to standard individually, together they're post-worthy...

These were actually taken almost a month ago, early in the morning from the parking structure above Front street in New Westminster.

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Post-Sunset Sunday

One of the great things about the Canon 5D (and it's successor, the 5D mark II) is the phenomenally low ISO available - 50. Not perhaps the setting most people would think of when taking a night shot, but it's what I used for this one nevertheless. Absolutely incredibly smooth image with fantastic detail - and no detectable grain whatsoever.

Most people tend to be impatient and want their shot done as quickly as possible. But once you've set up on the tripod for a long exposure, why not make the most of it and use the lowest ISO available?...

Well, the longer the exposure, the more you have to worry about some rogue wind puffing by, or in this case, a wave hitting the pier, or some stranger deciding to walk out on the pier while in the middle of the exposure. Any of these would have created vibrations on the pier, which would have been transfered through the tripod to the camera, which would leave everything looking at best, unsharp, and at worst an unrecognizable blur.

This is a 25 second exposure, which came out remarkably well considering in addition to the aforementioned problems I had another guy standing beside me, a fellow photographer with no gear who just stopped to chat, and we both basically had to hold our breaths and stand completely still until the shutter had closed.

Oh. This is the Knight St. bridge, of course, looking west. The bright line along the top of the bridge is from the headlights of cars driving at 80Kmph across it. I have no idea what the two dark spots are in the foreground of the image.

I've posted a larger version (click on the picture) than usual so that you can get a bit better of an idea of how clear the full-size image is.

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CN Rail

This was taken at the same time as the last post. This is the CN Rail bridge which runs alongside the Iron Workers Bridge. I'm still not happy with this product, but I've spent enough time fiddling around with it (this is version 2 of 3) that it's time to move on to other things, which I'll only do if I post it, so here it is.

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Lions, Under the Bridge

I had some stuff to do on Tuesday morning so I took the whole day off work - and it was a great day for it. After taking care of my tasks in the morning I got out for a couple of hours and ended up exploring the area around the south end of the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge. Damn if it wasn't really cold in the wind at the high point of the bridge! Beautiful sunshine, but with a lot of haze sitting over the city as well. Nothing much going on in the harbour, so those shots were mostly boring, but there were other interesting things around the area.

While I didn't get any stellar shots, I at least did better than the previous three times out with the camera; there are a couple of other pictures that might be post material though I'm still working on them so don't hold your breath just yet. But who knows, maybe the latest dry spell will finally be at an end!

Oh! Almost forgot... in case you're wondering, the bright orange ship is, for reasons that escape clarity for me, named Green Park.

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Jericho Footbridge

One last black and white image from Saturday. I'll definitely need to go back and try some more of this (because these last three pictures weren't exactly stunning - pleasant perhaps, but lots of room for improvement). The landscape is so different there now from what it's like in the spring and summer, and black and white is definitely the way to go to capture it.

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