Steel on Blue - SF Bay Bridge - a photo on Flickriver

Steel on Blue - SF Bay Bridge

            Another image processed with Adobe Lightroom.  And a 2nd image posted in one day - holy smokes!
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It had been too long since I went out with my camera, so yesterday I decided to hit the road for a couple of hours - even if it was the middle of a sunny day.  Besides, it's good to get out and and take pictures of things that are NOT sunsets and sunrises.

Anyway, while I was at this location, another guy came along and set up his travel tripod next to me and told me that he had decided that this was the absolute "best" place to shoot the bridge this afternoon (after walking all the way down from Pier 39).  He proceeded to take out a nice old Nikon film camera (F3 I think), set it up and began metering the light of the bridge with an old spot meter that was larger than my camera AND lens.  After a couple of minutes of chatting, he asked my how fast a shutter speed I was using.  

"Oh about 30-60 seconds or so", I answered.  I quickly clarified that I was using 12 f-stops of neutral density filters in front of my lens.  After a few minutes pause, he asked me if I thought that I was going to have any problems with the clouds moving during such a long exposure?

After I completed another exposure, I told him that it was "the clouds" that I wanted to take pictures of, and offered to show him how it looked on my LCD.  He took off his glasses and peered at the preview of my most recent shot and said something to the effect: "I don't really understand all these newfangled cameras and shit, but 'Damn' that is neat!"

Made my day!

Taken in: United States / California / San Francisco / Rincon Hill (show map)

Taken on: May 15, 2011

Tags:

architecture

azure

bay bridge

bridge

california

clouds

landscape

ocean

san francisco

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Sets appears in: • My SF

Groups appears in: • San Francisco • Northern California more » • California • Bridges Across • San Francisco Architecture • SF Bay Area Shooters (sfbas) • San Francisco Bay Bridges • Curbed SF • San Francisco Bay Area Amateur Photographers • Great Structures « less

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