A Tale of Two Bridges
Winter 2007: Boston CityScape
Experiments with my new Camera
White Balance: Correcting for Incandescent and Fluorescent Lights
North Station area
The Walkbridge to Boston Harbor and the old Bridge to Charlestown
The walk bridge is blue-green lit bridge at the center of the image while the old Bridge to Charlestown is the half illumined arch of the bridge (not the two bright lights) in the background to the right. It has a name, I am sure but I never bothered to learn what it was. Every tourist who has ever walked the Freedom Trail should be quite familiar with this bridge because it leads to the oldest active ship in the Navy, the USS Constitution, found in the old Navy Yard in Charlestown.
[It was once indeed a Navy Yard, and during the height of the the second World War, some of the buildings there were part of the munitions factory. Now, the remaining buildings have been converted to biomedical research facilities, offices and luxury condominiums as well as more recently pier residence and high rise housing -- very high priced.]
During the first time I lived in Boston, I used to walk through this bridge from the Navy Yard in Charlestown back to the heart of Boston. The highway itself was quite busy, so that when a vehicle passes by the bridge it creates a very distinct sound because of the all steel construction.
Visiting this place, after so many years, I was surprised that the bridge to Charlestown was not one of those rebuilt into a modern building, as part of the "Big Dig" construction. There was nothing wrong with it though. Just like many old construction, the bridge was built to last.
In night photography, the artificial greenish tinge is caused mainly when fluorescent lighting and could impart a rather surreal appearance if not corrected. This was supposed to be remedied using a White Balance (WB) correction, a feature of the D200, The only catch was that aside from the fluorescent light, incandescent light was more predominant in some sections. I did try both corrections, one at a time. Without any incandescent light correction, while correcting for the fluorescent light effect, created a reddish to brownish tinge image -- and the Walkbridge became rather luckluster. The images shown here therefore were just corrected for the effect of incandescent light.
N.B.
The image was uncropped. Except for "unsharp image" and the automated resizing and "screen image optimization" to reduce the diskspace usage, no further image manipulation was done.
A Tale of Two Bridges
Winter 2007: Boston CityScape
Experiments with my new Camera
White Balance: Correcting for Incandescent and Fluorescent Lights
North Station area
The Walkbridge to Boston Harbor and the old Bridge to Charlestown
The walk bridge is blue-green lit bridge at the center of the image while the old Bridge to Charlestown is the half illumined arch of the bridge (not the two bright lights) in the background to the right. It has a name, I am sure but I never bothered to learn what it was. Every tourist who has ever walked the Freedom Trail should be quite familiar with this bridge because it leads to the oldest active ship in the Navy, the USS Constitution, found in the old Navy Yard in Charlestown.
[It was once indeed a Navy Yard, and during the height of the the second World War, some of the buildings there were part of the munitions factory. Now, the remaining buildings have been converted to biomedical research facilities, offices and luxury condominiums as well as more recently pier residence and high rise housing -- very high priced.]
During the first time I lived in Boston, I used to walk through this bridge from the Navy Yard in Charlestown back to the heart of Boston. The highway itself was quite busy, so that when a vehicle passes by the bridge it creates a very distinct sound because of the all steel construction.
Visiting this place, after so many years, I was surprised that the bridge to Charlestown was not one of those rebuilt into a modern building, as part of the "Big Dig" construction. There was nothing wrong with it though. Just like many old construction, the bridge was built to last.
In night photography, the artificial greenish tinge is caused mainly when fluorescent lighting and could impart a rather surreal appearance if not corrected. This was supposed to be remedied using a White Balance (WB) correction, a feature of the D200, The only catch was that aside from the fluorescent light, incandescent light was more predominant in some sections. I did try both corrections, one at a time. Without any incandescent light correction, while correcting for the fluorescent light effect, created a reddish to brownish tinge image -- and the Walkbridge became rather luckluster. The images shown here therefore were just corrected for the effect of incandescent light.
N.B.
The image was uncropped. Except for "unsharp image" and the automated resizing and "screen image optimization" to reduce the diskspace usage, no further image manipulation was done.