This shot was taken at a footbridge that crosses the Cahaba River. The back story is that I was looking for a new place to shoot. I researched some options in my area and found out about the bridge. That was the easy part. I had directions that took me to a sports park, and then the bridge was supposed to behind the park. The trick was finding the bridge. There were some little league baseball games in progress. It was getting late in the afternoon and it was cloudy, so my light was fading. I asked some of the moms on the playground by the ball park about the bridge. My assumption was that moms know everything. They had all heard about the bridge, but none of them actually knew the location. They sent me over to ask one of the coaches who gave me directions to a different part of the park and off I went. His directions got me in the right general area and I started walking down paths and into the woods looking for the bridge. At this point I am burning what little daylight I have left, am walking in wooded areas with a lot of undergrowth, and concerned about snakes. I could hear the river, but couldn’t see it. I made my way through the undergrowth and to the edge of a small steep hillside that led down to the river. So I maneuvered down the bank with my camera, backpack, and tripod. The woods were heavy in both directions and I leaned out looking down the river, then up the river and saw the bridge. Now it was just a matter of getting back up the steep bank, back through the woods to the edge of the park to search for the bridge but I knew where it was now. Eventually I found the right path and it was worth the effort. The down side was that I had used most of the good light in the search. I took a number of shots and decided to go with this one.

In my photograph from yesterday, I commented about processing and workflow. I have some pretty good books on Photoshop and need to read more. I found a great section on color correction and used it on today’s images. I am happy with the results and the colors are very accurate. Hopefully this will be something that can become a regular part of my workflow.

This shot was taken at a footbridge that crosses the Cahaba River. The back story is that I was looking for a new place to shoot. I researched some options in my area and found out about the bridge. That was the easy part. I had directions that took me to a sports park, and then the bridge was supposed to behind the park. The trick was finding the bridge. There were some little league baseball games in progress. It was getting late in the afternoon and it was cloudy, so my light was fading. I asked some of the moms on the playground by the ball park about the bridge. My assumption was that moms know everything. They had all heard about the bridge, but none of them actually knew the location. They sent me over to ask one of the coaches who gave me directions to a different part of the park and off I went. His directions got me in the right general area and I started walking down paths and into the woods looking for the bridge. At this point I am burning what little daylight I have left, am walking in wooded areas with a lot of undergrowth, and concerned about snakes. I could hear the river, but couldn’t see it. I made my way through the undergrowth and to the edge of a small steep hillside that led down to the river. So I maneuvered down the bank with my camera, backpack, and tripod. The woods were heavy in both directions and I leaned out looking down the river, then up the river and saw the bridge. Now it was just a matter of getting back up the steep bank, back through the woods to the edge of the park to search for the bridge but I knew where it was now. Eventually I found the right path and it was worth the effort. The down side was that I had used most of the good light in the search. I took a number of shots and decided to go with this one.

In my photograph from yesterday, I commented about processing and workflow. I have some pretty good books on Photoshop and need to read more. I found a great section on color correction and used it on today’s images. I am happy with the results and the colors are very accurate. Hopefully this will be something that can become a regular part of my workflow.