p.1 #1 · 900 feet above the Colorado River (Images)
Just wanted to share a fun photoshoot I recently did of the Hoover Dam Bridge Inspection. It was a pretty unique shoot, including getting into the bucket of an inspection crane and going over the side and under the bridge. Over the course of two days I shot everything with the 5DII, and used the gamut of focal lengths from 12mm to 800mm.
I rented a Sigma 800mm for this shoot because initially I was told the only other vantage point I could get off the bridge would be from far down the river below. That ended up not being the case, but I still found a few occasions to use this beast of a lens: http://www.arthurdomagala.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/hdb1-6.jpg
p.1 #12 · 900 feet above the Colorado River (Images)
Cool. Can we assume you had your gear lashed to your body, or otherwise attached? Not just to prevent loss, but a 5DII falling from that height is going to leave more than a mark.
p.1 #14 · 900 feet above the Colorado River (Images)
I saw the bridge last year after thanksgiving, it's quite the presence. My whole family was scared to go walk across it. Shot this from the other side.
p.1 #16 · 900 feet above the Colorado River (Images)
Photon wrote:
Great photos and story, Art. I wanted to see more, but your web site won't open for me.
Thanks. I checked the link and it seems to be working so I'm not sure what the problem there would be :/
p.1 #17 · 900 feet above the Colorado River (Images)
PatrickSweeney wrote:
Cool. Can we assume you had your gear lashed to your body, or otherwise attached? Not just to prevent loss, but a 5DII falling from that height is going to leave more than a mark.
Well it would've made a decent splash in the river, that's for sure. But yeah the 5DII was strapped around my body. While in the crane I had a lens in one coat pocket, the 2x extender in the other side pocket, and then another lens in a pouch strapped to my belt. Changing lenses was done carefully, crouching down in the crane's bucket so they couldn't fall out. Well, for that matter, every action was done carefully
p.1 #19 · 900 feet above the Colorado River (Images)
alexdi wrote:
Very nice. It's amusing to me that despite being a rock climber, imagining the heights at play in these pictures is causing me to quake a bit.
Heh. I heard something similar from one of the inspectors. There's just something a little unsettling about having that much empty space below your feet
