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Challenge: 2-Second Exposure (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Forth Rail Bridge, Edinburgh
Date: Mar 19, 2006
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 2 secs of course :)
Galleries: Architecture, Transportation
Date Uploaded: Mar 19, 2006

 The Forth Rail Bridge shortly after sunset, so there was still some natural light in the sky. The light failed too fast though, and i couldn't get an angle that would let me make use of the sunset. I had to get thoroughly soaked standing in the water to get this shot, hope it was worth it.

That is the streak of two passenger trains passing each other on the bridge in the top right, the carriage windows made for a nice blur of light. Had to wait a while to get that.

Editing: No crop. Always happy when i manage that. A bit of dodging and burning to bring out the details in the foreground, small overall increase in brightness and contrast, increase in saturation to bring out more of the red in the sky and on the bridge. Didn't need to clone out any hot pixels either. Resize, sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 39 out of 192
Avg (all users): 5.9375
Avg (commenters): 6.5455
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Avg (non-participants): 5.9569
Views since voting: 1098
Views during voting: 316
Votes: 208
Comments: 11
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/26/2006 12:15:51 PM
Remarkable rule of thirds here, after I took the extra time to examine the foreground, I've decided I quite like this image, good luck.
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 03/26/2006 03:17:56 AM
You should have cropped it a bit higher.
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 03/23/2006 03:46:55 PM
I love night shots with time lapse shutters. nice work.
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 03/22/2006 11:20:49 AM
love the water on the rocks,looks good!
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 03/21/2006 10:40:33 PM
Good attempt, although I think that a tighter crop would help. As it is, the dark, somewhat uninteresting foreground dominates the picture...(6)
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 03/21/2006 09:11:38 AM
I really like this. The lines and shapes in the foreground work well with the forms of the bridge.
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 03/21/2006 08:16:56 AM
VERY NICE, AND BEAUTIFUL
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 03/21/2006 01:53:16 AM
beautiful 9 :-)
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 03/20/2006 12:36:02 PM
I would chop off some of the foreground. Other than that, excellent picture!
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 03/20/2006 01:44:12 AM
This is good.....
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 03/19/2006 11:38:32 PM
Nice image. Well construced
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