Really well done!

Regards, Chris

Thank you Chris. It always take quite a few hours to put one of these together, and a good deal of time finding the spot and taking all the images. Plus, this time my computer crashed when I was 90% complete, forcing me to start over. Glad you appreciate the work that went into this.

Edwin

Hi Edwin. This series is fascinating. I can't imaging the work that goes into this.

I can imagine the work because I've had a go myself on a smaller scale. It's great fun though. This is a wonderful example Edwin, full of tiny details to look at, which I think is the idea about images like this. I love the little runner (it might have been cool to get a back view of him as he left the bridge as well) and I like the way the whole thing is kept together by the sweep of the pathway from left to right. Excellent.

this is both technically and artistically superb.

Artisitically the scene is seen the way in which ones attention would take in a bit of detail and then move on to another part of the actual vista.

I too have had a go at this technique and considered the result a failure hence an additional bit of respect for the techical effort that went into this.

Great stuff!

E. Edwin. Once again an admirable piece of technique and composition. And I love the "No Frame" as Hockney says :-)) BTW remains me at some images in my pipeline :-))

Best wishes,

Tom, thank you for looking at this and for your appreciation.

There are details that can't be seen in the small version Such as, on the left bridge support, near the close end on the other side of the bridge and inside the first and largest triangle formed by the support is a small white spot. That is a dog looking from the back of a puck-up truck at the city skyline. the small white line in the steel grating on the foreground is actually the bottom part of a bus or some other vehicle. The first version had a face that filled an entire frame of a passer by, but when the computer failed I lost that composition. Making this image I was most interested in saving the whole image first (and that is what is presented here), but perhaps I will go back today or tomorrow and add some of the smaller details from some additional frames back into the mix.

Rex, it is wonderful to see you post again.

Thanks to all three of you!

Edwin

That typo could have been disastrous! "Puck-up" should be "pick-up"! LOL

EEEeee...

Thank you as well Horst. I can't wait to see what you may have for us to see.

Edwin

Edwin:

I think this is among your better efforts with photo montage.

The symmetry and unity provided by the contiunuing curved line iof the road contrast nicely with the fragments of the montage.

Best wishes...

joe

Thank you very much Joe. I had taken another series from a different view closer to the counter weights on the left side of the bridge. I was looking at, and through the structure for that image. (It seems that human structure adds to the visual interest in this series for me.) When I reached this point I stopped dead in my tracks. The gap between the supports of the bridge, the vista beyond and the wonderful cumulus clouds told me that this was the spot for my new image.

Yes, I have to agree with you, this is a favorite of mine as well. I don't make many of these, so your kind words mean a lot. Thank you.

Edwin

... what a great montage ... it's a jogging track as well ... :-)) brgds

Thank you Gunawan. Yes, the Hawthorne Bridge is part of the Pedestrian system that crosses the Willamette River, connecting the East Side Esplanade with the West Side Tom McCall Waterfront Park. You can walk, jog or bike around the river on both sides, about a 2 mile or more walk. This bridge is also part of the Bicycle Transportation Network in Portland, and gets a lot of use by both pedestrians and environmentally conscious commuters, and Portland has a lot of those.

Edwin

What an enormous amount of work this must be. I have taken some photos to make a composition like this, but only a few and I haven't gotten to merging them together. You gave me the idea though and I will compose something someday.

guess its time to have a competition w/ 20+ images combined any way possible. Nice one EEE.

I love this one very much! Must have taken you a long time to make this one i imagine .. very creative!

very impressive...like very much your "montage" series and this is one of the best inside that folder...i think...

a superb work of art ! (not to mention the effort) ...cheers ;-))

Again impressive E. It seems to me, that you have started to pp each shot so the result really pops. I think Adrian's idea to use this kind of work to subtly show things that can not really be shown in one frame is excellent (e.g. runner leaving the bridge). Apart from that the whole montage must look amazing if this technique were used for a super large print. But then not only an enormous amount of artistical effort and time would be envolved but in addition to that also seriously big bucks. I guess that kind of kills this idea. Anyways it is nice to dream.

Due to a computer hardware issue, I have not been able to get on-line to reply. Please forgive.

Wiliam, I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

That is an interesting idea Jeff. I wonder how many entries there would be...

This one did take most of a day Arnoud, with the time being doubled by the computer failure at the first attempt. That was a sign of additional problems that made themselves apparent later.

I appreciate that Denis, and I think I agree. Like everything in life (or art), the more you do something, the better the results.

Thank you dee vee. :-)

Actually Klaus, I did no processing on each shot. I had the exposure set to -1/3 stop in camera. After the montage is assembled, I save the assemblage and then flatten the image. At that point I adjust the image as a single piece.

I did see an article in a magazine yesterday (while doing research for a new computer) of a man that does much huger montages, assembling them seamlessly into truly gigantic fantasy scenes. I don't remember his name and I don't even remember the magazine it was from. But there are other people doing giant montages too. To do what I would like, I need a mugh bigger and faster computer. Someday...

Thanks to you all for everything.

Eedwin

i concurr with all the above. Another great image. rating of ten. 5 for the work involved in making this and 5 because the end result is so spectacular.

Thank you very much Sam.

:-)

Edwin

LOL, Edwin. When I saw your 'puck-up truck' typo I thought for a moment you'd turned into a New Zullunder! As with your other works in this vein, I do appreciate the work that has gone into it and, more importantly, the end result. What a great way to get more coverage than a fish-eye! I've yet to try this technique. It looks great.

I saw this image in HRI when I dropped in for one of my infrequent visits last week. Liked it then. Now I see that it's heavily commented and very highly rated. Well done. Must say that it irks me that this image isn't the first one that's currently visible when I open the site because it is the most outstanding image of the current crop. I wish Highest Rated Weighted got prime position in the widget. I do get annoyed with single-10 images usurping that spot. The image on our front page should be the current most outstanding image by weight of 10s - not one, - often over-generous - ten!. Oh well.

LOL Rob! The letters are worn off my keyboard, and I really don't look at the keyboard anyway (plus I really like it) so I have not bothered to replace it. Instead, I rely on spell check. What can I say? I pucked up! ;-)

Thank you very much for your thoughts and appreciation. If you do try this sort of assemblage, I look forward to seeing the results.

As to the fron page image, you make very good points. I am not sure which of the choices I prefer to be honest with you and other members. I do like the HRI in front because it could change often. However, there are times when a less than great picture (in my opinion) is raised to that position and will stay there for a day or longer with only one rating and one comment. It seems that nobody wants to knock a singularly rated image out of the top position. Nor do I like the other choices.

Personally, I would like to see the HRI and the HWRI side by side. But, that is not a choice.

Perhaps I will add that comment to the thread as long as I have a laptop to access the web from.

Thanks again Rob. I appreciate your thoughts, ratings and everything.

Edwin

Just rating this before I forget. I didn't get a chance to comment on this during my recent absence, but I think this is one of your best montages yet. It has a striking 3-D feeling to it, so wide and deep and with a sense of being pulled physically along the bridge. Love the buildings and the bit of water you've included at the far left--and also the jogger; they seem absolutely essential to the final image both in terms of content and composition.

Thank you Elisabeth, you are very kind. :-)

I wonder if anyone will see this message. I managed to get this page loaded from a link after about 15 minutes. The MFTs front page is still attempting to load after more than an hour...

Now that's performance!

Happy trails.

Edwin