Bars, Hydrants and Bridges (Opinions Please)

justin24

I have not gone out in a while to take photographs and I was going to go for landscape but decided to opt out of that and go for something different.

#1 Presidio, SF California


Taken at sunset. Driving around the Presidio and old worn down building with rusting metal bars caught my attention.

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Walked around the building taking different angles of the various metal bars.

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Cracked paint landscape

justin24

One of the only two landscapish type shots

The Golden Gate Bridge with the fog rolling in.


Vibrant Hydrant long exposure with a car passing by but it looks as if the hydrant has a laser

CoryUT

Some interesting shots. The bar photos (first post) don't do much for me, but that's personal taste. I do like the two from the second post.

The panorama of the bridge with fog rolling in is really cool. The only thing I would say is that the foreground (grass) is a little bit distracting. I think it's too bright. Try to bring focus away from that and onto the bridge a little more. Overall great photo.

Great colors in the hydrant photo, but I think there is too much empty space on the left. I would (next time) re-frame and put the hydrant to the left. This would give us more of the great looking light effects from the car as well. Maybe just crop out the emptiness in this photo and see what it looks like.

IanJ

I like the photos of the bars, theres some nice textures in all that rust.

I also like the hydrant one of the two landscapes, but like the previous poster, I'd be tempted to crop out some of the empty space on the left.

Ian

anvilimage

Crissy Field is a cool spot to shoot at night and I've never had any problems from the cops/rangers late at night out there. We were out late last night at the Palace of Fine Arts and almost headed down there...

adbsgicom

Like the first bar shot. The wall going down into the shadow says 'lonely place'. The other bar shots are interesting textures, but didn't make me really stop. The paint thing I'm still trying to parse what exactly I'm looking at -- seems amost like something under a microscope, but I realize that it is not. Macro shot of a Saltine is next in mind...

Beautiful shot of the GG. Agree that the grass is bit prominent.

Very clever idea on the hydrant. If you get a chance again with some control of the car, see if you can get the beam coming out of the center of the hydrant, that would take this picture to a next level.

justin24

Thats a good idea I will try that on Thursday. The first shot is actually an out door shot with the sun setting and the light hitting the wall.

adbsgicom

justin24 wrote:

Thats a good idea I will try that on Thursday. The first shot is actually an out door shot with the sun setting and the light hitting the wall.

Always love it when reality and the emotion conveyed in print diverge...

Dogdots

I like your photo of the Golden Gate Bridge. Its different then all the many other photos one sees of the bridge. Nice shot As for the grass...yeah you could mow some of it out of the photo, but my eyes were fixed on the bridge to really notice.