Brooklyn Bridge shot for C&C

[dandaluzphotography]

Guys,

Any suggestions on how I can improve this?

Settings: 1/4 @ 20mm, f/11, iso 100

The shutter speed was 1/4 of a second and I think that made this not as sharp as could have been. I should have upped the iso to like 200 or 400 to get a faster shutter. There were some vibrations on the bridge due to the traffic.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Danny

 

[doubleoh7]

please go back and shoot a sharper image. the composition is awesome. Was the light overhead? Try it at a different time of the day (yields better results). Good stuff Danny!!

 

[dandaluzphotography]

Hey. Thanks for the feedback. The light was behind me right after sunrise. I definitely needed a faster shutter for this shot. I realized that as soon as I processed it. I got lucky with the fact that there were no people walking on that part of the bridge at that moment. It was Sunday morning at about 7:15. I will definitely try this shot again! Hopefully, there won't be an people again.

Thanks,
Danny

 

[doubleoh7]

so what you described sounds like you needed more light so you could have a faster shutter. What camera are you using? If you go Aperture priority and take the photo around 9am, the light source will still be behind you and while there will probably be people, you could edit them out or leave them as part of the composition of the photo. The Brooklyn Bridge is a busy place. It would still work in my opinion. thoughts?

 

[dandaluzphotography]

I have a Canon XSI and it's not great at higher ISOs (800 or higher). I shot this in manual mode and I'm pretty sure if I were to up the ISO to 400 and perhaps opened the aperture one more stop to 8, I could have shot this with the faster shutter speed of 1/30 and gotten the same exposure. That might have made for a sharper image depending on how much vibration there actually is/was. If I opened the aperture any more it would probably make the image less sharp at the edges and a higher ISO would have added too much grain.

Danny

 

[Pgeobc]

Step 1: get the sharpness up as previously mentioned. This image depends on lots of detail.
Step 2: this is a very rigid, symmetrical image. Static, if you will and it is sort of like classical or neo-classical era composition. You may never get a better shot, but try getting some of this off of dead-center and see what happens.

 

[dandaluzphotography]

Step 1: get the sharpness up as previously mentioned. This image depends on lots of detail.
Step 2: this is a very rigid, symmetrical image. Static, if you will and it is sort of like classical or neo-classical era composition. You may never get a better shot, but try getting some of this off of dead-center and see what happens.

Great idea. I'll try this.

Danny