Challenge:Bridges (Classic Editing) Camera:Pentax Optio 230 Location: Top of Old Highway 40, near Donner Lake, CA Date: Mar 5, 2003 Aperture: f 6.2 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/500 Galleries:Architecture, Travel Date Uploaded: Mar 6, 2003
This bridge links me to my favorite snowboarding mountain near Donner Lake. Whenever I travel up this bridge I am excited to be snowboarding soon, and coming down from snowboarding, this bridge offers a spectacular sight of beautiful Donner Lake.
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Quite a shot! I love the mountains in the background, and the very-well exposed snow in the foreground. It's an overall great shot, although something bothers me about the way it's split in the middle. I honestly can't even put my finger on it. I'm wondering if I would have found it to be stronger with the bridge at more of an angle instead of nearly head-on? It almost looks like two separate pictures -- a mountain-scape and the bridge. Whatever the case (since I'm finding that I'm not making a shred of sense) it's a 9 in my book :)
Very nice scene, and I really like this style of bridge too. Lighting seems good, colors too - the picture is a bit grainy though, at ~75k. Did you save the photo at a high enough compression quality?
I think this photo has captured the essence of the location! Great use of the bridge to break the image into two distinct backgrounds! Well composed. I like it a lot!
Great composition and execution. Love the focus and color. The bridge really dominates the charactor of the shot and the lake and mountains draw the eye into the shot to give even more. Congratulations and good luck! -Clicker-
Nice composition, although it is perhaps cropped a little too tightly at the sides. Also I wonder if sharpening would have bought out more detail in the bridge.
That is a beautiful scene, but I think that there is too much at the bottom of the shot. I would have cropped some of the bottom off to lead the eye towards the scene above the bridge.
Wow, you folks are in some nice places. Good feature of the bridge in a very nice well composed image. This would be really nice in a panoramic aspect to open up the feel of the bridge.
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