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I looked up the exact paint color of the golden gate bridge and by exact I mean exact. The RGB values are 240, 74, 0. Which is orange. And the color you chose is red. Try the correct color. It still may not look right though because most of us are familiar with the bridge from photos and it looks different depending on the where the sun and clouds are. So start with that color and if it doesn't look red enough or dark enough then adjust it.
The bridges really are that long in real life. but not that wide. Pntbttr, your bridges have a border 2 pixels thick and the inner color is 5-6 pixels thick. I would like to see what it looks like if the border was 1 pixel and the inner color was 3-4 pixels. Just redo one bridge for now so we can see if it's an improvement or not. Unless you already tried that and know that you can't get it to look right unless you make it thicker.
I would also like to see how the bridges look with grey instead of the two colors.
Matty is right about the ocean. there isn't enough of a difference between it and the land. Try adjust the color so that it is closer to a cyan color RGB 0-255-255. But not cyan, that would be too bright, but something in between cyan and what you have now. try upping the brightness and the saturation.
The bridges really are that long in real life. but not that wide. Pntbttr, your bridges have a border 2 pixels thick and the inner color is 5-6 pixels thick. I would like to see what it looks like if the border was 1 pixel and the inner color was 3-4 pixels. Just redo one bridge for now so we can see if it's an improvement or not. Unless you already tried that and know that you can't get it to look right unless you make it thicker.
I would also like to see how the bridges look with grey instead of the two colors.
Matty is right about the ocean. there isn't enough of a difference between it and the land. Try adjust the color so that it is closer to a cyan color RGB 0-255-255. But not cyan, that would be too bright, but something in between cyan and what you have now. try upping the brightness and the saturation.