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Golden Hour Bridge Passing | New Bern, NC This shot was taken just as the sun was beginning to set to my back. A really, really great golden light was cast across the bridge, which opened to let a sailboat through at the same time!  A little back story is as follows. My buddy Brad came to town to shoot the sunset with me. We met up at the park next to the drawbridge with plans to shoot the sunset from the observation deck of the bridge. I have never shot a sunset up there, but it has a high, unobstructed view of the Trent River with the sun setting right smack-dab in the middle of it. So we made our way up on to the bridge, at least an hour and a half before the sun would actually be setting. Brad brought an extra body and was going to set up for a timelapse of the setting sun. Cool! After over an hour of shooting (it was now literally 10-15 minutes before the sun would set), the bridge operator got on the intercom. “All pedestrians need to vacate the bridge, ESPECIALLY THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS.” Now what was this all about? He returned to the intercom to tell us a boat was coming and no one could be on the bridge while a boat was passing. This is not true. There are cars stopped on the bridge when it’s open and I have been walking on the bridge when it is open. You just have to stop at the gate. Still, he adamantly motioned and told us to get off the bridge, “NOW.” We returned the ‘thumbs up’ sign, but he continued to gesture (to put it lightly) toward the end of the bridge. Maybe he thought we were giving him a different finger? I just figure we over stayed our welcome. We are, after all, photographers- we had to have been up to something….groan. So we gathered up our stuff, Brad’s timelapse was mere minutes away from being cinematic gold, and left the bridge. As soon as we passed the last set of gates, the alarm sounded and the deck began to raise. It was about then that a friend of my Facebook page, Jared, arrived to shoot. We passed him on the bridge and the three of us hustled around the river walk and down to the area behind the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center just in time to catch this boat passing under the open bridge.  The last bit of day light was great, as you can see here. So maybe it was a blessing in disguise that we were kicked off the bridge. There is no way we would have caught that great golden reflection from up there! The shot: Nikon D90, 8mm Rokinon lens, f/22, ISO-100. 2 exposures manually blended in Photoshop CS4. Finished with Nik Viveza and Nik Color Efex Pro.
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Golden Hour Bridge Passing | New Bern, NC

This shot was taken just as the sun was beginning to set to my back. A really, really great golden light was cast across the bridge, which opened to let a sailboat through at the same time! 

A little back story is as follows. My buddy Brad came to town to shoot the sunset with me. We met up at the park next to the drawbridge with plans to shoot the sunset from the observation deck of the bridge. I have never shot a sunset up there, but it has a high, unobstructed view of the Trent River with the sun setting right smack-dab in the middle of it. So we made our way up on to the bridge, at least an hour and a half before the sun would actually be setting. Brad brought an extra body and was going to set up for a timelapse of the setting sun. Cool!

After over an hour of shooting (it was now literally 10-15 minutes before the sun would set), the bridge operator got on the intercom. “All pedestrians need to vacate the bridge, ESPECIALLY THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS.” Now what was this all about? He returned to the intercom to tell us a boat was coming and no one could be on the bridge while a boat was passing. This is not true. There are cars stopped on the bridge when it’s open and I have been walking on the bridge when it is open. You just have to stop at the gate. Still, he adamantly motioned and told us to get off the bridge, “NOW.” We returned the ‘thumbs up’ sign, but he continued to gesture (to put it lightly) toward the end of the bridge. Maybe he thought we were giving him a different finger? I just figure we over stayed our welcome. We are, after all, photographers- we had to have been up to something….groan.

So we gathered up our stuff, Brad’s timelapse was mere minutes away from being cinematic gold, and left the bridge. As soon as we passed the last set of gates, the alarm sounded and the deck began to raise. It was about then that a friend of my Facebook page, Jared, arrived to shoot. We passed him on the bridge and the three of us hustled around the river walk and down to the area behind the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center just in time to catch this boat passing under the open bridge. 

The last bit of day light was great, as you can see here. So maybe it was a blessing in disguise that we were kicked off the bridge. There is no way we would have caught that great golden reflection from up there!

The shot: Nikon D90, 8mm Rokinon lens, f/22, ISO-100. 2 exposures manually blended in Photoshop CS4. Finished with Nik Viveza and Nik Color Efex Pro.

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