The House on the Bridge

 

Bamberg, Germany [Canon 5D]
July 17, 2009
(click in the image for a larger version)

 Greetings from Germany!

I am here with my wife and daughter and we are one week into a four week stay to visit some family and friends. In addition to family time and visiting, we are doing our best to make the most of all that the area has to offer with side trips to explore the surrounding towns and countryside.

The image above was made last week on our drive from the Frankfurt area to the eastern part of the country where we are spending most of our time. This is a famous bridge in the Bavarian city of Bamberg. Seeing it makes you wonder just who had the idea to hang that house off the end of the bridge. It looks somewhat precarious.

It is an HDR composite made from three different hand held exposures. The initial HDR merge was made with Photoshop CS4 and then finished using Photomatix. The image was then brought back into Photoshop CS4 for some additional fine-tuning and "seasoning". This was not a classic HDR type of scene and I probably could have gotten by without using HDR. But I wanted to have some source exposures so I could demonstrate the process for my father-in-law, who is fascinated by the possibilities that the digital darkroom offers.

Upcoming Workshops

I have two upcoming workshops in October and November that I am really excited about. They are being offered in two of my favorite places: Real World Digital Photography II in Maine (early October) and The Creative Collage with Adobe Photoshop in New Mexico (early November). See the links below for more information. Sign up soon if you are interested!

Real World Digital Photography II
October 4 - 10, 2009, Maine Media Workshops
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Creative Collage with Adobe Photoshop
November 5 - 8, 2009, Mesilla Digital Imaging Workshops
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Comments

[Brian Duggan]

Sean - this is a marvelous photo. Subtle, deep, and intriguing.

I suppose when children who lived there were naughty, they were sent to the corner rooms until they had learned their lesson...

[retouching]

Beautiful looking architecture! Well captured.