Last night three of us headed to South Queensferry in order to shoot the Forth Bridge in the dark. Mike, Sarah and I left Perth at 7pm with the sun already down and the clouds coating the sky. No star trails shots were going to happen on this night…
I was shooting at iso100, f7.1 and manual shutter times of anything between 1 minute and 5.
Why the rail bridge isn’t lit up like this is a mystery to me.
The tide was well out.
Trains were very frequent, and very loud!
Had nothing else to do with my evening so agreed to go on a night shoot with the guys though I would spend the whole time being insulted! But at least I didn’t leave my camera bag under the bridge!!!!!! On similar settings as Ian and just guessing the shutter speed, sorry going by feeling, and using the wide lens I got some lovely calm shots. The trains helped light up the rail bridge, which was finally free of scaffolding as it now has the new super douper paint on it which does not need redone constantly. Pity they haven’t lit it up like all the other main landmarks. But was a good shoot even with the insults!
The 2 bridges together thanks to my great wide lens
Train on the rail bridge and ships in the river.
