Along the Erie Canal March 22, 2008
Posted by tcbp in : Photography , add a commentLast week I walked along the Erie Canal two days in a row for a break from the usual and to see whether there was anything that might catch my eye photographically. I wound up under the Winton Rd bridge a lot, and the second day made use of the 90mm Tilt-Shift to enable me to take a couple photos like these:
I relied on using some tilt in both cases since there was no way to set up a tripod and even if a smaller aperture gave me enough DOF, I wouldn’t have been able to hand hold it. I also re-approached this from another part of the bridge to see if the colors and textures would come out better and I think they did this time.
I had also noticed while I was wandering around that a bike was stuck in the canal. It had me thinking that it might have been down there a while since the water level was quite low in the canal which might have revealed it. Otherwise it would have fallen in recently or before the canal iced over because up until a few weeks before the day I was out there most of the canal was covered in ice I believe and this bike looked like it landed in the canal face first.
