When: any beautiful sunset, SF is a heaven for cityscape photographer.
Where/How: For this Ferry Building shot, you'd have to be in Hyatt stair exit at the end of building looking toward Ferry Building. This is pretty safe and quite place. For this shot, I think I was on floor 14 or so. All level are locked to prevent re-entree from outside except 2nd floor. So if you are stuck by the end of the shoot, try second floor.
I took the whole camera bag with me but ended up use only D800, 16-35mm, GND, 3 stops and 10 stops in various frames.
Nikon 16-35mm at 16mm
f/8
ISO 100
5 sec
Cokin xpro GND
Lee 3stops
B+W 10stops
