Uddevalla Bridge Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is the Uddevalla bridge over the Sunningesund, about 80 kilometers north of Goteborg. It's a "cable-stayed" bridge, the pilons are 149m high and it's 1712m long (largest span 414m).

Taken in september 2001 with a terribly noisy Casio QV3000 on a terribly rainy day, one handed behind the driving wheel. The original was already almost b&w and needed a lot of contrast enhancement, which didn't really help the noise levels.

Even though it's one of the oldest digital images on my harddrive it's still one of my favourites.

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Vagabond (5797) 2005-07-12 12:45

Nice perspective with a Strong B&W effect.
Congratulations ..

umbrellaphotos (1901) 2005-07-12 13:22

A very nice composition here. I like your choice of black and white. It gives it a flair of a classical appeal. Nicely captured.

leonorkuhn (13385) 2005-07-12 13:59

Hi Adrian,
Nice geometric composition, good choice of B&W. Great perspective. Well done!
Leonor

thor68 (5529) 2005-07-13 13:23

hi adrian! :-)
interesting perspective,
i really like the straight lines.
as a b&w shot this is superb.
the noise is there but not disturbing;
makes it look like a photo from the 50s or 60s.
well done,
thor.

davey590 (271) 2005-07-30 18:29

very good perspective
nice framing
cool pic
pity used casio camera
otherwise good pic
Dave R

tordur (30) 2005-09-09 6:11

Hi, Adrian!
What a fortune that you had a camera at hand! I agree with you that it is a very good picture regardless of noise. Have you tried to tilt it a bit ccw? Not sure if it would better it (you could loose the road), but maybe worth a shot? Anyway these shapes look great, and the smaller one framed in by the big one. I also like that the closest one goes beyond the frame.
Tordur ;)

photosettle (1505) 2006-01-16 18:38

Stunning compostition. No problem w/ the noise. sometimes i add extra noise through an an overlay layer set to 50% grey to add even more noise and distribute it better. Thanks for sharing a great image.