Madnessmatrix | Eric Bowers Photography

Four tripod mounted RAWs // HDR // Shutter: varied // Aperture: f/13 // Focal Length: 100 mm // ISO 320

…what else would one expect? Bridges aren’t in the business of reinventing their images incessantly like some celebs. But that’s immaterial.

The lucky thing about this shot and a few others I’ve already posted similar is that I was able to at least get off a few decent shots on the tripod even without the shutter trigger. As I’d mentioned, the shutter trigger port on my 5D got busted up a week earlier in Kansas City. $311 later and it’s all good as new. Although by the time I made it to the Plaza Lighting on Thanksgiving night, over three weeks after this photo here was taken, the camera was repaired, but I forgot to pack my infernal shutter trigger cable release string device doohickeys. Whatever… at least it’s easier for me to get Plaza lights photos year after year than it is to get Manhattan/Brooklyn Bridge photos, owing to both economics, logistics, and intervening dimensions of time and space.

*This is one case where I had to use 16-bit TIFFS to compile the RAWS together, as saving in merely 8-bits discarded too much of the data from the four RAWs and left a banding problem in the sky.