Boston Skyline and Bridges

These are photos of the Boston skyline and surrounding bridges from a variety of vantage points including Cambridge, East Boston, South Boston, Chelsea, Everett, and Malden. I turned the ordinary into a dreamlike reality with very long exposures, using LEE Filters to control the light entering the lens.

Sunrise over West End Boston Skyline and Charles River from Cambridge Massachusetts

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Sunrise over West End Boston Skyline and Charles River from Cambridge Massachusetts

It was a little too windy to incorporate the dinghies along this stretch of the Charles, so I decided to just blast out a long exposure and let the boats along the horizon do their blur thing.

This was an 8 minute exposure with LEE Filters Big Stopper and Very-Hard edge 0.9 GND. The “Very-Hard” describes the tightness of the blend line (edge) as the graduated neutral density (GND) filter blends from dark to clear. Using this filter I was able to expose the water properly while retaining detail and color in the sky, and the Big Stopper allowed me to achieve the overall exposure length.

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