I spent hours and hours getting this photo just right, because it's two shots stitched together in Photoshop. My smallest lens wasn't wide enough to get the whole bridge in one shot, and after my wife got me a kick-ass tripod for Christmas, I was finally able to get a decent night shot with my D70.
I went to Wheeling Island -- not usually a good idea in daylight, and never one after dark -- and hung out in some rest home's back yard, trying not to get kicked out by security (I'd already been approached by the good people of Wackenhut Security while taking this shot). Nobody came to bother me -- a strange man, in a backyard on Wheeling Island at night? Must be business as usual! -- and I managed to get off some nice, long-exposure shots. I think this one is made up of a six-second exposure on the left, and a four-second exposure on the right.
I'd done an earlier version and kept obsessing on how the cables on the left weren't matching. I spent hours and hours trying to get them to line up, resizing, angling ... nothing worked.
Yesterday, I had a brainstorm -- don't be a moron and spend hours with little lines. Use all of the photo on the left, and just match up the right at the other side of the shore. So I used that "Marsh Wheeling Stogies" sign as a guide, and it took me about 30 minutes to finish up.
I like the shot(s). Reminds me of what the bridge looked like that night, which is all I can ask for, I guess.
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