When the Weather Wouldn't Cooperate

dadwtwins

I woke up super early to pick up a few friends and shoot a sunrise over the city today. When looking up the sunrise time on the net, I miss read the sunrise time and arrived at the place I wanted to shoot an hour and a half earlier than needed. Oh well, better early than late. Sorry Steph and Travis :-<
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Since the weather was not cooperating....grumble....grumble, we decided to get some breakfast and more importantly fill our bodies with coffee. Once our tummy's were full and we were buzzing off our caffeine, we continued onto our photo quest to Grace Cathedral. Since the weather was not giving us good lighting conditions, what better than to shoot some B&W shots inside one of the more unique churches of San Francisco.

This was the first time I used my tilt/shift lens. I must say, I love this lens and can not wait to use it more. As you can see, this church is unique in that it has a fairly large Labyrinth inside the church. While we were there, I watched people using the labyrinth. A direct quote from Wiki, "Walking among the turnings, one loses track of direction and of the outside world, and thus quiets the mind."
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We found the organist practicing for the upcoming Choral Eucharist.
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On the second floor sits The Chapel St.Francis/Colubarium. This place looks like a portal to another world. Beam me up Scotty!!!
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On the front door are some ornate panels filled with scenes from the bible. I am always a sucker for well made art work.
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Two fun pictures. First one is of Steph/Schmoo piercing me with a death stare for fibbing to her about the sunrise time.
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This was Travis's payback for waking him up too early this morning and standing out in the cold for a sunrise that just never arrived.
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Thank you Travis and Steph for getting up way too early, failing to get the planed shot but hanging out with me anyway. ;-) It was great shooting with you while catching up. Next time, you guys pick the place and time. :-D

schmoo

OMG Dan these came out so well! You're incredible for pulling great shots out of tricky situations. Especially the catheral... how did you get the light beams, and magically remove all of the people? Talk about opportunity, nice!

I haven't even had time to take the photos off the CF card yet, heheh. And of course I don't mind getting up super-duper early. It was all good, especially as we beat the breakfast crowd and Marin was amazingly not cold or windy.

Next time yeah we'll figure something out and hopefully get nicer weather. But I think the clouds above the bridge up there really shows the benefit of having an overcast dawn

(Enjoy your purchases!!)

nightpixels

Awesome shots. I have never been to Grace Cathedral. I definitely have to check it out next time I am in SF.

tisun

Dan, you certainly turned lemons into lemonade. Great shots of the cathedral.

My view of East Bay hills as the train passed by Drawbridge early this morning was beautiful, despite without the sun. The clarity of the hills, the colors of the slough, the low clouds, and some sun beams made a great view. I wished the train would stop for me to take a shot of that scenery.

Awais Yaqub

Man, such a beautiful series ! amazing place and photos.

dadwtwins

schmoo wrote:

OMG Dan these came out so well! You're incredible for pulling great shots out of tricky situations. Especially the catheral... how did you get the light beams, and magically remove all of the people? Talk about opportunity, nice!

I haven't even had time to take the photos off the CF card yet, heheh. And of course I don't mind getting up super-duper early. It was all good, especially as we beat the breakfast crowd and Marin was amazingly not cold or windy.

Next time yeah we'll figure something out and hopefully get nicer weather. But I think the clouds above the bridge up there really shows the benefit of having an overcast dawn

(Enjoy your purchases!!)

I am a very paranoid person when it comes to my pictures sitting on CF Cards. First thing I usually do when I get home from a shoot is to download all my pictures onto my Archive Hardrives. Otherwise, I worry they will be written over or just forgotten about.

Post processing is usually very short and direct. If PP takes longer than a few minutes, i just toss it and go onto the next pic. When I set up shots, I usually know what i want so when I scroll through my raw files I am looking for something in particular. If it is not there, the file is tossed. Out of the 50 or so shots I took that day, i only ended up processing around 12. The rest are in an archival trash bin.

dadwtwins

nightpixels wrote:

Awesome shots. I have never been to Grace Cathedral. I definitely have to check it out next time I am in SF.

This church is the most friendly photographer place I have ever been. They allow tripods, shooting from the balcony and even shooting in the middle of the walk ways. They only ask you to put away te camera during the services.

dadwtwins

tisun wrote:

Dan, you certainly turned lemons into lemonade. Great shots of the cathedral.

My view of East Bay hills as the train passed by Drawbridge early this morning was beautiful, despite without the sun. The clarity of the hills, the colors of the slough, the low clouds, and some sun beams made a great view. I wished the train would stop for me to take a shot of that scenery.

Thanks Tony. I noticed the sky was perfect for outside shots today. Too bad I had to work:cry

dadwtwins

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Man, such a beautiful series ! amazing place and photos.

Thank you Awais. You always have a kind word to say

schmoo

dadwtwins wrote:

Thanks Tony. I noticed the sky was perfect for outside shots today. Too bad I had to work:cry

Ha yeah tell me about it. I was up really early today since I fell asleep at 8:30 on Sunday night. () Today was the post-rain sunrise that we were hoping for!

nightpixels

dadwtwins wrote:

This church is the most friendly photographer place I have ever been. They allow tripods, shooting from the balcony and even shooting in the middle of the walk ways. They only ask you to put away te camera during the services.

That is good to know, thanks!

RuSu

Beautiful...
You got some wonderful shots; especially like bridge photos - really magnificent.


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dadwtwins

RuSu wrote:

You got some wonderful shots; especially like bridge photos - really magnificent.


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