The Manhattan Bridge
NIKON D700 and 20.0 mm f/2.8 shooting f/5.6, 8 s, ISO 200 at 20 mm. Taken at 2009:04:25 20:45:46
This is the Manhattan Bridge. The youngest of the three suspension bridges crossing the lower East River, the Manhattan Bridge goes from Lower Manhattan (Chinatown) to Brooklyn.
The EXIF isn’t actually accurate. While the “correct” exposure is what is displayed, this is an HDR. I’m still debating how I really feel about HDR photography–a part of me finds it incredibly useful for certain situations, but most of me thinks it’s just an overplayed (and often poorly-executed) gimmick for photographers who can’t find the proper exposure. Don’t get me wrong, I am RSS’ed to Stuck In Customs, a blog entirely devoted to HDR, and I love his photos, but the other 97% of HDR photographers just can’t seem to get it right.
PS – Please ignore the geotagged info in the EXIF for now. It should be a negative longitude. I’ve contacted the plugin author to let him know about the bug and decided to leave it in there so he could have a viewable sample. I contacted the plugin author and he fixed it because he is awesome. Click here for his site. All geotagged photos from here on out should be accurate.
HDR is pretty sweet even though it can be overplayed. However, cause it looks so good and takes so little time, I think the overuse is justified (people love efficiency right?). While that doesn’t change how one feels about HDR, I’d say it’s still a legitimate digital tool no matter what. It’s just sad that it is abused by so many people.
This photo’s very tasteful. At first glance I wouldn’t have said, “Hey, that’s an HDR.” Bravo sir.