old railroad bridge

[picman]

would like your comments on how to improve this pic.

[Nathan deGargoyle]

The best thing you could do is go back and reshoot to include the left end of the bridge in the shot, but how about cloning out the branches, pump the midtones, lighten the towers and add some texture to the sky.



If you want me to delete this just ask.

[xxpinballxx]

nice rework nathan

[Nathan deGargoyle]

Thanks Pinball.

[cesar_rosales]

I agree with Nathan about the bridge and branches.. not to crazy about the sky thought. Maybe you can try a Layer mask in PS to use the sky of another photo...

If you want me to delete this just ask.

[Nathan deGargoyle]

Nice job Cesar but you need to make the water colour match the sky colour.

[xxpinballxx]

yeah was going to say the water does not reflect whats going on in the sky....maybe not exactly the same color but the water would have a bluer hue to it....
I like the grey almost Desaturated look of Nathans rework....
Now thats out of the way lets not forget to let Picman know whats with his....
I think the branch is a bit distracting and cloning it out is a good idea....I like the bridge and supports and all but the sky is really limiting the appeal to the photo. Sometimes no matter what you can't get a good photo due to those bleek looking skies that always seem to be right over me....This is my constant problem and what keeps me from going out shooting more often.
Maybe go back and try again on a better day......

[Taallyn]

How about reshooting it from the other side so the sun is sort of behind you to your left. Then the sky might have a better chance of having a more interesting texture. Also, that way the sun is illuminating the towers better.

[picman]

thank you for your help, i did not give much about the picture when i uploaded it. it was very cloudy and raining when i took the picture, the left end of the bridge has a lot of unsightly stuff there therefore i didn't include it in the picture.the bridge is fenced off of i would have gotten different views, darn 911 messed up alot of things i cant get to now.