When: I was bored on Sat night so my cousins and I headed up to SF around 1am. Not that I recommend taking picture of SF at 1 am. I think sunset would be the best time for any city light pictures. That's when all the lights are on yet the sky still give enough light on buildings for a perfect picture. So these are in complete darkness.
Where: If you do a search "Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco" on google you get this location easily. If you go from Lombard st, make a right onto Lyon st. It's VERY easy to miss this turn so get your GPS with you. There are few nice location around this place. Either park along the lake or make a left to get into the parking lot and walk into the building. BTW, you be seeing some raccoon if you get there late enough.
How:
Gear: I brought all my gear with me (just in case) but ended up only use D90 (of course) and Tokina 11-16mm with a little of 18-105mm. Some serious tripod. I had with me Manfrotto 055XDB with 808CR4. This tripod set did a great job BUT when I tried to do a wide capture of the ceiling, it didn't let me go low as I wanted. If you have tripod that let you go as low as 8in or so would be better. I ended up had the camera lay on the ground on top of my jacket in order to get this one
Settings: I set as follow:
| Exposure: | 8 |
| Aperture: | f/10.0 |
| Focal Length: | 11 mm |
| Exposure: | 0.00 |
| ISO Speed: | 200 |
| Exposure Bias: | +1/3 EV |
| Flash: | No Flash |
With WB set to K=2600 (lowest). If you have some kind of wired or wireless remote, bring it. You'd save time from waiting for timer to go off.
I did all the shoots in RAW and Normal Large. .
Process : Didn't do much on this set. Only open raw in PS and playing with the color a bit. Also did a filter Fractalius on this 1
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