Where: It was one boring Sat doing nothing but eat and sit around all day, which is not what I prefer to do. Called up my cousin and decided to make a round trip of the bay. We started to leave San Jose about a little pass 8pm and got to Treasure Island about 9. Coming from SF (no toll fee ... woohoo) I took exit to Treasure Island and got to the parking space where everyone park for an awesome look at SF. This remind me I don't have a snap shot of this angle yet. So this parking was not where I wanted to be at the moment. After the Uturn, and going back up to Treasure Island Rd. Keep left to where it says toward Oakland. Seeing a really sweet spot on the freeway entrance, look toward SF thru the BB, I park my car at the "drive way" up 50yard from that spot). Walking back is not so hard compare to parking the car down there and hike up for ~ 1mile. Trade off was that my car could be towed by the time I came back. We got to this sweet spot, while setting up we saw a cop drove by. He looked at us and kept driving. We were thinking something gonna go really wrong... either we got arrested for trespassing or just fall down the hill from trying to hide... But before we know it, another one drove by and yell at us " you guys are not suppose to be there, get back to your car!!!". LOL that's not too bad compare to arrested. So we got our first shot at BB.
This can't be the end of the night... No way 1 hr driving and ~60 mile worth of gas end like this. We got back to the car and drove around, make some turns and bunch of Uturns which I partialy lost in the dark but ended up at the top of the Island, end of Signal Rd. What we did next is pretty much 99.99% risky and illegal but come on ... I know all you photographers 've been there done that... haha... So I'm not gonna tell you how risky illegal it was. I rather have you discover yourself... So we climb up that little old building and got a few shot of the BB. We went down all relieve that we still alive and not arrested (again). And had a shot at this building as "souvenir" hahaha..
The night was still young so we head back to SF and park by Embarcadero and Howard St. for another look at Bay Bridge. By the time we are done with this spot, it's almost 12am and it's now "too early to go back"
So we headed over the Golden gate for some foggy night shot. We went to the classic Hendrik Point and got some ok foggy Golden gate shot. Extremely tough with high wind, cold and dark combined.
Left SF at 2am. It was a long long drive back when you are all out and thinking about the warm warm bed every 1/250 a sec. hahaha.
When: 1 bored out of my mind weekend early Jan
How: Brought with me all my gear but only used Tokina 11-16mm like any other scenery trips and now with new member Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 for Nikon D90.
First one was a bit rushing so I forgot and still had ISO 400. If it was 100, you'd get a better, nice tail light lines on the bridge.
| Exposure: | 3 |
| Aperture: | f/13.0 |
| Focal Length: | 40 mm |
| ISO Speed: | 400 |
| Exposure Bias: | 0 EV |
| Flash: | No Flash |
Got setting in a little better. Brought with me ND4 and ND8 but didn't really need it. F could be narrower (larger number) for longer exp. I was really pissed when I got home and see ghost on almost all of photo at this spot. I HATE cheap filters. My HOYA skylight.
| Exposure: | 3 |
| Aperture: | f/6.3 |
| Focal Length: | 46 mm |
| ISO Speed: | 125 |
| Exposure Bias: | 0 EV |
| Flash: | No Flash |
This is a fun one. I had D90 open for 30 sec and flash light painting the stair also top level of the structure. Came out great!
| Exposure: | 30 |
| Aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Focal Length: | 11 mm |
| ISO Speed: | 400 |
| Exposure Bias: | 0 EV |
| Flash: | No Flash |
There are some serious light coming from the street lights, So be ready to have something to cover up your lens to avoid glare.
| Exposure: | 30 |
| Aperture: | f/7.1 |
| Focal Length: | 11 mm |
| ISO Speed: | 125 |
| Exposure Bias: | 0 EV |
| Flash: | No Flash |
Got some OK shot here. Not so excited about it since almost everyone has this tattoo at the back of their mind.
| Exposure: | 15 |
| Aperture: | f/3.5 |
| Focal Length: | 38 mm |
| ISO Speed: | 100 |
| Exposure Bias: | 0 EV |
| Flash: | No Flash |
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