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Challenge #71: Landmarks
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Challenge ended Mar 19, 2007
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19th Place       The Old Bridge
© goodjohn
103 points
Fujifilm FinePix E550
1/1000 sec, f4, ISO 200
Mar 15, 2007
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Cropped, desaturation, levels, curves, resized and final USM, sent for challenge.
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This is what remains of an ancient roman bridge on the river Adda, the last part dropped down one year ago.
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ChefZiggy
Mar 19, 2007
19:55 GMT
I like this but I think I would like it better in color. Although it does look like the sky might be pretty plain and maybe too bright anyway. Composition is good and I like the crisp frozen water. The smooth flowing look just wouldn't look right with this, I suspect.
goodjohn
Mar 19, 2007
02:45 GMT
Hi, Thanks you all for your nice comments!

I also would like to know how this bridge looked in it's time. I think it dropped down recently because i saw some pictures (drawings) of this bridge in a bar restaurant near by, but maybe it was only the fantasy of the artist drawing that picture that represented it complete.

Plebian, Davidlong, you are right, but when i saw this on the computer i found it much noisy in the shadows so i could not bring up the middle tones too much without to bring up too much noise and jpeg artifacts.
So i decided to leave it as natural.

The bridge is backlighted so i think it justify a darker image. Anyway I see that is a dangerous image, because it can be too dark on uncalibrated monitors giving too much contrast. On my monitor i can easily see all the details in the shadows :-)

Conanfuji, thanks for your comment, i found this picture more interesting in B&W than in color, that's why i coverted it in B&W.
aprilesole
Mar 19, 2007
00:44 GMT
Nice perspective of an ancient ruin and beautiful river. I would love to see this photo in summer view. Good Luck~!
Plebian
Mar 18, 2007
21:07 GMT
The shadows/midtones could be brought up some. The dark subject is difficult to appreciate. Composition is good, may be slightly tilted though.
T_Schneider
Mar 18, 2007
17:13 GMT
I love this is B&W, it makes you wonder what the whole bridge looked like in it's time. In my TT
davidlong
Mar 16, 2007
11:34 GMT
Tough to hold that much dynamic range, but I would have liked to have seen more detail in the bridge given that it's the subject. Perhaps a photo at a different time of day would have been more amenable to a balanced exposure.
fujiblonde
Mar 16, 2007
11:27 GMT
i'm a sucker for a B&W shot. this is great. wonderful textures and tones, great dof and focus is spot on. lovely water motion with the detail nicely composed with a interesting angle. this is great and i hope it does well for you.
Conanfuji
Mar 16, 2007
02:26 GMT
This shot really needs colour.
Would love to see what the roman bridge's shade.
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