WPC 1546 - Travel* CRITIQUE: Grose 's WPC Entry has been selected for the Photo Critique Forum* to find out what could have done to make it better. Be nice, but be honest as this may...

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

Grose's WPC Entry has been selected for the Photo Critique Forum* to find out what could have done to make it better.

Be nice, but be honest as this may help everyone with their craft. Thank you everyone!

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100 years of dependable travel for passengers and freight 50mm F7.1 1/200s 1600 ISO

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RickH Loc: Toronto, Canada

Well, the image has a great deal of potential. I would start post processing by removing the wires and bringing down the brightness of the sky, esp on the right and left. The cars on the bridge in the left background are a distraction, too, at least for me. Also, it should be easy to use a healing feature to remove the bit of water in the left foreground.

jim hill Loc: Springfield, IL

St3v3M wrote:

Grose's WPC Entry has been selected for the Photo Critique Forum* to find out what could have done to make it better.

Be nice, but be honest as this may help everyone with their craft. Thank you everyone!

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The previous critique had it right, this photograph has a lot of potential. As it stands it contains a an obvious fascination with the subject, which is the bridge and it's surroundings

I think I might like to see only the bridge with cropping to the very entrance and then a cropping of the sides up to the bridge base leaving the wires as they might, at this point, add interest and finish by cropping the sky above the bridge down to the black area containing the 1915 reversal.

Kind of drastic, I know, but it might be worth a try.

Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

I think the picture should have been taken from just within the bridge structure, that would have got rid of all the extraneous stuff outside of the structure and given a dramatic tunnel effect with great lines leading right through to the light.

jim hill Loc: Springfield, IL

Graham Smith wrote:

I think the picture should have been taken from just within the bridge structure, that would have got rid of all the extraneous stuff outside of the structure and given a dramatic tunnel effect with great lines leading right through to the light.

And, as usual, Graham has said what I wanted to say in a lot fewer words. He is man of few words. I like to see my own ravings in print so I tend to carry on a bit. Please don't anybody say, "So we've noticed."

He is right on the money.

10MPlayer Loc: California

I like both Jim's and Graham's suggestions. The point is, the bridge is the interesting thing. Fill the frame with it and crop out the rest. I don't care for all the fiddling around that taking out the wires requires. With that much manipulation you'll be able to see where it was "fixed" unless you're an expert with Photoshop.

mcveed Loc: Kelowna, British Columbia (between trips)

This image was shot with a 50mm lens. As an archive shot it is competent. But there is so much unrealized potential in this subject. I would have tried shooting this with a 20mm or wider lens with a very low camera position and the camera pointed up to include the top beams with the date cutouts. This angle would have eliminated the external distractions and made use of the detailed structural details. In other words, I agree with Graham.

Grose Loc: Eastern Idaho

Thank you all for your comments. I have been photographing this bridge for a long time. Instead of photo-shopping, the bridge is close enough to go take more photos. I'll let you know how your suggestions work out.
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