Eric Leslie
Impossible Feat
Continuing on with my last shot's theme, a sort of when nature meats civilization type shot. You're looking at the Placer Street bridge crossing at Clear Creek. It's a pretty cool bridge to drive across because you're not expecting this sudden crossing over the canyon. It's hard to feel the scale, but the bridge is well over 100 feet tall and it's spanning at least double that. Standing at the bottom of the footings and looking up is dizzying.
I couldn't find much info about this bridge, but I do know that it's fairly new because the old road actually loops through the canyon behind me, crossing on a more conventional bridge. We found a narrow strip of dirt to park on up by the bridge and walked down the old road to get down the Clear Creek. I took many different compositions of the bridge and this one did the best job portraying just how tall it is.
The conditions were tough because it was a cloudless day at about 2 in the afternoon. To counter the bright areas of the sky and left bank, I shot a 3-shot bracket from -2 to +2. I loaded up my lens with my .6 stop ND filter and CPL to keep the blue sky blue and harsh reflections to a minimum. I choose f/11 which netted me a .4 second exposure for the +2 shot. That gave me a perfect amount of movement in the water.
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Impossible Feat
Continuing on with my last shot's theme, a sort of when nature meats civilization type shot. You're looking at the Placer Street bridge crossing at Clear Creek. It's a pretty cool bridge to drive across because you're not expecting this sudden crossing over the canyon. It's hard to feel the scale, but the bridge is well over 100 feet tall and it's spanning at least double that. Standing at the bottom of the footings and looking up is dizzying.
I couldn't find much info about this bridge, but I do know that it's fairly new because the old road actually loops through the canyon behind me, crossing on a more conventional bridge. We found a narrow strip of dirt to park on up by the bridge and walked down the old road to get down the Clear Creek. I took many different compositions of the bridge and this one did the best job portraying just how tall it is.
The conditions were tough because it was a cloudless day at about 2 in the afternoon. To counter the bright areas of the sky and left bank, I shot a 3-shot bracket from -2 to +2. I loaded up my lens with my .6 stop ND filter and CPL to keep the blue sky blue and harsh reflections to a minimum. I choose f/11 which netted me a .4 second exposure for the +2 shot. That gave me a perfect amount of movement in the water.
Read more at EricLeslie.com