Wandering Under the Bridge in Linz with a 20mm prime
Language of this post: EnglishBy jasper, , 2 min read
This wasn't a planned photo walk with a theme. I just wandered around Linz with my camera and took pictures of whatever caught my eye. I started at the Peuerbachstraße tram stop and ended up by the river.
Most of the walk was spent at Under the Bridge. It's a cool, urban-looking spot with lots of interesting subjects: a red double-decker bus, a container covered in graffiti, event banners and a couple of old cars covered in spray paint, all in the shade of a big road bridge.
Gear and settings
- Camera
- Olympus E-PL8
- Lens
- 20mm prime
- Aperture
- Wide open, for the shallow-focus shots
- Editing
- None, straight out of the camera
The cars
I'm happiest with the car shots. They look the nicest of the whole set. I liked getting close and letting the wide aperture blur the background, or using the windows to catch reflections of the river and the people passing by.
Under the Bridge
Light and contrast
Under the bridge it's quite dark, while the sky outside is very bright. I didn't do anything special to deal with that. The camera handles it pretty well for such an old camera, and since I didn't edit anything, what you see is how the camera captured it.