Sunrise at the Skyway Bridge

Mitchell

Scouting campout this weekend. Woke up early for some bird attempts which all failed. Wound up with this one! Any comments?

MrBook2

I think this was well worth getting up for. (Besides, there is a bird in the pic!)

--Aaron

nburwell

Excellent shot! (now I'm going back to look at your picture)

Art Scott

EXCELLENT ....I see bird in for ground but just up fom it is another blk object (another bird or is that a fin......)

saurora

Beautiful! Nice symmetry going on here...the birds keep it from being too formal. Lovely, lovely color.

tmlphoto

Hey Mitch, I'm really diggin' the symmetry. The colors are great and the texture/color of the water really works. Great shot.

USAIR

Killer shot really love it

Thanks
Fred

Mitchell

Thanks for the kind comments.

Art, you've got a great eye. I missed that fin on my first go around with that shot. I was too fixated on the sun's location to notice it.
There were a lot of dolphin in the area this weekend. I think I just got lucky!:D

spockling

She's a beaut! Wish I could lay claim to that one.
But I do have to say, to me, the flying bird is kinda a distraction.

Mitchell

spockling wrote:

She's a beaut! Wish I could lay claim to that one.
But I do have to say, to me, the flying bird is kinda a distraction.

AACK! I was looking for birds!

Anyone else think I should clone out the bird before I print this one?

Dee

Beautiful
I like the bird -- if anything I'd put in a different bird silhouette that had a better flying or gliding look to it. It breaks up the symetry.

However, I went WOW before I saw the rest of the water at the bottom, so my suggestion would be to crop out a major portion of the water -- because? Well the bridge structures form a V shape, with the sun at the bottom -- and two much water detracts from what I think is the natural movement within the frame. But that's just my humble opinion...

Really gorgeous photo!

Awais Yaqub

beautiful scene thanks for sharing

JamesJWeg

Great shot! If I was going to PS it I would try removing the bird, and several of the objects on the horizon, also would crop out some water.

James.

edit: I think I would crop all the way up to and including the bright area in the water, the ratio would be about that of two 2/3 end to end, kind a pano look.

Mitchell

Thank you James and Dee for the great suggestion. I just reworked this with a pano look which I think really flatters the subject. Any thoughts?

MrBook2

Nice...
I was going to tell you to keep it how it was; even to not clone out the bird. But I have to say that the new version is fantastic. Two thumbs up!

Andy

It's super, Mitch.
I tried a full-gaussian blur on just the water, man, what a shot!

ehughes

Great shot Mitch, I'm usually not a big fan of the sun in the middle of the picture, but this works just perfect...

junglejim

I have to say that the bird is so small that I agree that it is a distraction I prefer the second version.


jim :cry

saurora

Wow! I thought it was great before, but this is about the nicest shot I've seen so far since joing Dgrin!!!

Mitchell

saurora wrote:

Wow! I thought it was great before, but this is about the nicest shot I've seen so far since joing Dgrin!!!

Holy cow!!! That's high praise that's not deserved. Thank you!:):

Andy, thanks for the comments. I was wondering if you saw this shot. How does one go about printing something like this that is such an odd size? I've only printed 8x10 or 8x12 in the past.

saurora

If you don't have a large format printer, and it doesn't sound like you do, I would have this professionally done. This would be great poster- size. Am I mistaken everyone, or is this a highly sale-able art print?????

Mitchell

saurora wrote:

If you don't have a large format printer, and it doesn't sound like you do, I would have this professionally done. This would be great poster- size. Am I mistaken everyone, or is this a highly sale-able art print?????

Thanks for the nice comments.

I wouldn't know the first thing about selling this image even if it is saleable!