US 279

This shot has been done by dozens, if not hundreds of Pittsburgh photographers.  Regardless, I wanted to capture my version of this popular spot.

This is taken from a pedestrian overpass that crosses 9 traffic lanes of US 279 looking back south towards the city.  The overpass has a chain link fence along the entire bridge, but someone (not me) cut holes in it just for photographers to take this picture without the fencing getting in the way.  Again, I’ll stress it wasn’t me.  The holes were already there when we showed up.  Below I included a behind the lens photo taken with my iPhone to show you our set up (my camera next to Brad’s camera).  The hole in the fence was small, so we had to work close to each other.

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My camera on the left, Brad's on the right.  It was nice of someone to cut this hole for us.

Tunnel Of Love??

I doubt it, but people love to paint graffiti on it.  This is another picture from our excursion to the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike.  I don’t know what it is about this picture, but I like it more then I should. 

Photo Technique:

This is a 7 exposure auto-bracketed HDR image.  I merged the photos together using Photomatix Pro and edited it in Photoshop CS6.

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More Abandoned Turnpike

Tonight’s photo is another one from my exploration of the abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike.  This is the entrance to one of the tunnels.

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Brad hasn’t posted any pictures yet.

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Abandoned Montana Road

Montana Road

This picture was taken a few years ago, on our Yellowstone National Park trip.  If you’ve been to Montana before, you know how beautiful it is.  If you’ve never been, the landscape is so cool, it’s worth the trip.  We spent lots of time, driving around Big Sky Country to experience as much of the environment as we could.  On the day I took this picture, we drove for about 6 hours and probably saw 2 other people the entire time. 

Photo Technique:

I took this picture hand held (I didn’t have to worry about traffic) in Aperture mode with it set at f22.  I didn’t shoot any auto exposure brackets, this is just one exposure that I tone mapped in Photomatix Pro. 

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