Covered Bridge

Taken this weekend. C&C welcome.

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3 things hit me - first, the light isn't very good, very flat, so that's going to limit how good any photo can be. Second, the subject of the photo is pretty small, and third, you have a horizontal subject but use a vertical (portrait) photo orientation. So to deal with the last two at least, zoom in more, and use a landscape orientation. You can do these last two with cropping, taking out some sky and some of the river, but you will lose resolution.

I agree with patrick.

Was there any other angle you could shoot from? I agree with the above but there's more. The bridge is basically cutting through and going out of the photo. The bridge which is supposedly the subject is actually a distraction in the way of your ice stream shot. Try to get into a position where the bridge can play a more prominent role in the shot.

Here is another version. Not a lot of choice in where it was shot from as I had to shoot from another bridge, there is no easy way down to the river. Don't really think this image is better than the other just curious if this gives anyone an idea on something I may have missed from an editing point of view. This is just a quick edit as I am at work right now.

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Not much else you can do with it. Sometimes you see something and that's just no way to get a good pic of it, so you just have to move on and find something better to shoot. This may be one of those things.

I think I'm gonna have to agree with kfreels here, from that vantage point there's not a stunning photo to be had. The perspective is simply completely wrong. If you were much closer to the bridge, so it was much larger in comparison to the background hill, I think you could at least start to work something.

Sighs....

Yeah, that is kind of the conclusion I have arrived at as well.

I think the first one can be saved my cropping out the sky. I really like the trees on the right side of the photo.

SJC from VT wrote in post #16819106
I think the first one can be saved my cropping out the sky. I really like the trees on the right side of the photo.

So maybe it is a New England thing

Seriously though that is what is so interesting about photography. I may go back and play with the original image again. Maybe crop to an 8 x 10 and leave a small slice of sky at the top. I thought the trees on the right provided some interest to.

Certainly never an award winner, but....

I agree I like the framing provide by the tree on the right, however the subject it's framing doesn't support the framing method, if that makes any sense.

Northwoods Bill wrote in post #16819130
So maybe it is a New England thing

Seriously though that is what is so interesting about photography. I may go back and play with the original image again. Maybe crop to an 8 x 10 and leave a small slice of sky at the top. I thought the trees on the right provided some interest to.

Certainly never an award winner, but....

Now who doesn't love New England! Though the winter is way too long this year! Please share any updates to this photo.

Not sure how much of a trek it is to return to the spot Bill, but a vantage point more from the end of the bridge, with the perspective shot down the side of the bridge to the other side might visually be more appealing. Maybe possible to get down underneath (providing that's safe of course) and shoot the underside and support colum that looks to have some interesting shape/pattern to it. Nice to see where a bridge starts/ends. Great structure to capture, but some other viewpoints might be of consideration. Just a thought.

SJC from VT wrote in post #16820080
Now who doesn't love New England! Though the winter is way too long this year! Please share any updates to this photo.

I didn't really understand long winter until moving to NH eight years ago. Still wouldn't trade it for a minute!

BigLobowski wrote in post #16820339
Not sure how much of a trek it is to return to the spot Bill, but a vantage point more from the end of the bridge, with the perspective shot down the side of the bridge to the other side might visually be more appealing. Maybe possible to get down underneath (providing that's safe of course) and shoot the underside and support colum that looks to have some interesting shape/pattern to it. Nice to see where a bridge starts/ends. Great structure to capture, but some other viewpoints might be of consideration. Just a thought.

May head back over Friday morning but I suspect the ice will be largely gone. Didn't see any great access but I think I will explore in more detail.