My friend Mike brought me to Congress Av. Bridge in Austin, around dusk to show me a massive bunch of bats fly out from under the bridge, which they do every evening. After waiting a couple of hours for the bats to occur, we gave up waiting – Mike later told me that the non occurring had something to do with their cubs – turned around and started shooting up the Street instead, which turned in to some pretty awesome photos.
Here’s what Mike got from that same spot.
To get this shoot, I was standing so close to the street that I almost got My head ripped off by the rearview mirror on a bus driving by, so don’t you tell me that I’m not living on the edge…..
HDR, 5 RAW exposures, Photomatrix, all 6 photos added as layers in Photoshop, masked back the Car trail Lights, cleaned up a little ghosting, finalizing with Color Efex Pro and Lightroom for contrast and “last-minute” tweaks.
- Aperture: ƒ/11
- Camera: NIKON D3S
- Focal length: 24mm
- ISO: 200
- Location: 30° 15.6798′ 0″ N 97° 44.7124′ 0″ W
- Shutter speed: 10s
The Bats and the Bridge by Bo47 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
