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I guess I feel lucky when another photographer critiques my work and comes up with a spelling error. I appreciate you taking the time to review my website and giving me the feedback.

I wasn't interested in doing the Eye when we planned the trip but it was part of the city tour. As it worked out, it was a very memorable part of the trip and gave me incredible view of the lovely city at night and some incredible pictures as well. I could not have taken most of those shots without my 5d2.

Here is my favorite.

 
Interesting, I'd not thought about cropping above the rock - I'll have to give that a go later. Thanks Rick!
 
Lovely shot... I aspire to pictures like that. In case you're interested, the large office block in the centre of the Eye on the RHS is Shell Centre, the HQ of Shell Intenational. I worked there for many years, fortunate to have lovely views of the river and Embankment form my office window.

Michael
 
Sadja Herzog said:
Very nice. I was actually thinking more along the lines of

http://ben-egbert.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Eastern-Washington/9818344_vC2jW#723161410_F87Bq
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Ok, I get it. But here is what I was trying for. There are three of these old bridges around here, and I have posted the other two in the last two months. The real limit is light, I was going out Sunday, but it was foggy all day long. Now it looks like next week for the next shot.

I have done all this stuff in the past, now I need great light and a good sky to get me out for new stuff. Also some locations have specific seasons that work better.

Anyway, back to the bridges. This one has too much graffiti to do again, took me half a day to fix it.



This one is worth going back for a better sky, otherwise I am pretty happy with it as is.



But next good sky I will go back to the Monroe street bridge I posted this week with the suggestions provided here.

These are all afternoon locations, so I get one per decent sky day.

I will no doubt be back for that water fall shot this spring. I will remember to do one of the Hydro plant.

By the way, I would not take my gear to this location after dark without a gun, and I don't own a gun.

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Ben
 
Based on my limited experience with scorpions they seem to like the sandy areas in washes or near water. The ones I saw at wahweap creek were all in a 100 yard stretch or so. Many people car camp at the small lot where the trailhead to the wave is (wirepass) and I've never heard anyone complain. I've been to The Wave about 20 times and never seen a scorpion or a rattlesnake. If you stay in a tent and check your shoes in the morning before putting them on you should be fine. IMO a better place to car camp is at the Paria movie set (about milepost 30 on 89), there are pit toilets and tables, and the Chinle is quite beautiful there.

When I go to the area I usually stay in Page (Antelope Canyon, MV is not too far, horseshoe bend, Lees Ferry, Coyote Buttes, White Pocket) or in Kanab (Bryce and Zion, Coyote Buttes, ...). Page has better services than Kanab. About the only times I car camp is if I'm going to the White Pocket or the South Buttes, I really dont like driving out in the dark over roads with deep sand where you have to keep your speed up.

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First one from last weekends trip to the North West of the South island of New Zealand, this the Buller river 20kms or so from Westport.

 
Cool shots. If I were there I would have been all over that dried mud in the last frame....I'm thinking tripod, macro lens and conversions to B&W....

http://clintdunn.zenfolio.com
 
Beautiful capture. I like the color one more, because BW is too dramatic, and due to the longer exposition, there is some smoothness and kindness in this shot. Kind of melancholic atmosphere. My only comment is the saturation on the stones at the bottom of the frame. I have nothing against the color itself, but my eyes were distracted from the sun to the stones and back. I tried one fast saturation reduction, ( I hope you don't mind), but I probably went too much. However its a matter of taste, the shot and atmosphere are exceptional. Great job.

 
Thanks Ben but the truth is I sadly forgot my 67mm filters on this outing and had to improvise like we did in the old days. Actually I was quite surprised at the 100% crops. I can't seem to see any softness caused by diffraction except around the bare tree branches on the right.

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Great exposure & beautiful color. My only nit would be cutting off the river at the very bottom of the tip of the bend (or is it some hint of my anal retentiveness?). :)
RobjDickinson said:
First one from last weekends trip to the North West of the South island of New Zealand, this the Buller river 20kms or so from Westport.

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My system does not display this image as intended so I prefer not to comment on color or exposure. I like the subject and composition. Is this a horseshoe bend?

Like Rick, I think I would like to see the full river edge.
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When you can't focus, nothing else matters
Once you can, everything else does.

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Ben
 
It wasn't meant to be that dark. But the computer also died 2 days after. I will try and make a retake on it where I make it a little lighter and also some orientation work is needed (just noticed it's tilting slightly to the right)
Rick Knepper said:
The exposure is a little dark on the tree which I must assume to be the main subject. But then, your objective may have been to present the scene as accurately as possible.
Rick Knepper said:
50D Sigma 50-150 f/2.8 EX DG II @ ISO200 f/8 1sec PP in Camera raw and PS CS4



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Books make you smart, experience makes you wise, pick your poison.
In vita veritas est (In life truth is)
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It was supposed to be dark today, and it was, but some interesting sky’s anyway so I went back to the Monroe Street Bridge with ideas from you folks on my earlier post.

I carefully stopped and got some change for the parking meters, and put them into the meter nearest my truck. I got back to find a $15.00 ticket with 40 minutes left. I think I used the wrong meter, but the other one had a vehicle over part of it. I don’t think I will be going back. Downtown Spokane is hostile to people who drive.

All shots with 1DS-mk3, 70-200 f2.8IS and ISO100
75mm f11, 1/13 CP and 2 stop ND grad hard edge



Further back

70 mm 1/8 sec otherwise same as first



Further back yet. Note, the gondolas were being parked for the day as I was walking to this spot and it was still early.

70mm F10 1/10 sec, removed CP but still have the ND grad.



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When you can't focus, nothing else matters
Once you can, everything else does.

http://ben-egbert.smugmug.com/

Ben
 
Ben,

Too bad about the parking, kinda puts a damper on the whole day. At least you got another shot at the bridge. Maybe one of these days the light and the sky will cooperate. The second shot is the one that does it for me. I would love the first one if the gondolas were in the shot, something about the wires just running through with out any visible reason for being there (or it could be the rough day at work to day).

Thanks for sharing.

Pete
 
PWE said:
Ben,

Too bad about the parking, kinda puts a damper on the whole day. At least you got another shot at the bridge. Maybe one of these days the light and the sky will cooperate. The second shot is the one that does it for me. I would love the first one if the gondolas were in the shot, something about the wires just running through with out any visible reason for being there (or it could be the rough day at work to day).

Thanks for sharing.

Pete
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It would be easy to get the gondolas in the shot, I worked hard to avoid them. I know what you mean however. This is a major reason why I don't do urban scenes, too much visual pollution.

I also had a tough time avoiding buses and cars over the bridge.

Sorry to hear you had a rough day, I am retired, and don't miss that at all.

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When you can't focus, nothing else matters
Once you can, everything else does.

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Ben
 
SeaScout851 said:
Hey Ben,

These are great!!! I'll choose #2 as the best to my eye.
Sorry to hear about the parking ticket. :|
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Thanks Andy. I wish now i had taken a picture of the meter. But like I told my wife, if I went downtown to fight the ticket, I would probably get another one. Parking is horrible downtown, and I seldom visit the area.
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Andy
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