Copyright © 2008 Lim Wan Xiong, All Rights Reserved__________________Seri Saujana Bridge, Putrajaya, Selangor, MalaysiaCanon 40D + EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM + Cokin 154 + Special EquipmentMy apologies its not a BMW. Just imagine it's an X5. Full resolution
http://fc87.deviantart.com/fs39/f/2008/327/e/f/Two_Steps_by_couleur.jpgLike to thank my friends for helping me out on this, couldn't have done it without them!I did this yesterday and here I present you my first rig shot. I'm kind of happy about the composition.We reached there at 8 am in the the morning, and it was raining and there were a lot of cars on the road. It was too risky, so I decided to look around for other locations. But eventually, there wasn't any nice places and my mind was still set to shoot on the bridge. After about and hour or so, the rained had stopped and we started cleaning up our cars and headed back to the bridge.It took us one and a half hours to fix the rig. I know this is too much, but I didn't had any experience. I found out that my rig was too big, and when it was rigged on my car. The distance between the rig and earth was less then a centimeter.I was very disappointing about it because when we did a demo on the highway (before the bridge)... the rig was about to come off every time. And another issue I have encounter was that the camera support equipment couldn't clamp on the rig because it was too thick, and I was forced to clamp at the very end of the rig which added so much weight that the rig came out several times. It was just too risky and I wanted to tell my friends to call it a day. But I can't leave without anything, I came 60 kilometers far from home, wasted petrol and dragged my best friend into this too. So I decided, I can't be bothered about the traffic or anyone, i'll do it!15 minutes walk from the highway where we fixed our rig to the bridge. When I reached the beginning of the bridge. I felt that as if heaven was just meters away! A hard day work is about to pay off, and all I need to do is pray that the rig doesn't come off in the middle of the highway. My friends were thinking that this is just insane. Taking two lanes out of three and we were driving like snails.We started off when the road was pretty clear. My best friend inside his car (black CRV) was so worried that on coming traffic might crash into us. When we reached about three quarter of the bridge, the police drove by. I was thinking that I am in deep shit and thought they would pull us over. But they didn't, they didn't even look at us. I was wondering, maybe they didn't saw us huh? lol...Coming to the end of the bridge when I sense freedom and relieve just a few meters away, the rig came off by itself. :|You guys must be wondering, how come I didn't get supersonic motion blur. Well, I didn't have enough neutral density to cut down the harsh light. And this is the furthest I could go.
