Re: Photographing bridges and stuff

[P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Stern muses:

>I've been following closely the Dr. T originated "Bridge Question", because
>I have the opportunity of photographing a light house.  I'm certain I can
>figure out some snazzy stereo on the inside of the light house (providing
>the inside gear is interesting enough) but the exterior gives me pause.
>I'll have to back away a great deal to get this whole thing into frame.  Now
>what?  Stand on the land end of the light house and get some foliage in the
>way?  Or am I better off going into the Sound and shoot through the
>sailboats like a Kodachrome Postcard?  The question might be, bridge
>included, how does one shoot a cliche?

Another option with a tall object and a stereo camera is to get close
to the base and shoot up, turning the object's height into "depth".

Bridges are obviously easier, tending to be longer than they are tall,
providing a natural opportunity for shots with depth.  I can think of
several shots in my portfolio of: railroad trestles, shot from below
(looking up into the supporting steelwork), shot from the side so that
the bridge dominates the right foreground and recedes into the distance,
and from directly on the tracks looking across; ordinary concrete
overpasses shot from below, looking through the pylons (a stereo cliche'
if ever there was one), shot from right at the end of the guardrail, so
that the guardrail breaks the window, etc.

I know that most of these shots have been done before.  Heck, one thing
I've learnd from collecting stereoviews is that just about *everything*
has been done before.  But they were new to me. :-)

	-Greg W.


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