As the proposals to build a bridge across Lerwick harbour to link the island of Bressay to the Shetland mainland continue to be discussed a series of updated images of the proposals were required.

High quality digital images were taken froma range of sites overlooking the bridge and 3 main locations choosen.

The bridge was modeled in 3d from the CAD drawings of the current design, with the latest details for earthworks and roads alignments also added.

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The photos were digitall matched to a virtual camera in a 3d modeling program to make sure that the locations and perspectives of the 3d elements matched all the exisiting features perfectly.

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All the 3d elements were textures with painted images drawn from a number of real life photos and the scene was illuminated to match the lighting conditions in the photos. The 3d elements were then taken into Photoshop to be combined with the photos. Working at the very high resolution of the digital photos meant everything had to be masked togetehr precisesly, but gave the best quality and an extremely good match between the real and the proposed elemetns in the final images.

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The completed series of images, including cleaned up "before shots" was supplied to the LPA on disk for future web and print use.