San Francisco

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Lunchtime at the Ferry Terminal


Travel Time


Hurry, Hurry, Now Boarding - Departure Time for the Sausalito Ferry


The Jewelry Seller on Market Street


Dinner Time at Tadich Grill


The Port of San Francisco at night

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Lunchtime at the Ferry Terminal

Hey Snappy, look like your having fun. I like the last two the best.

wxwax

I couldn't resist using yer smilie, Snappy!

I really like the big clock shot, and the nighttime terminal shot. Love the purple.

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Bridges at night.
Here are a few more of my pics from San Francisco.
There was a farmers market at the Ferry Landing on Saturday. This group was playing some old time music.

Old Time Band


The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge and Treasure Island at sunset. The sun has set and the cars have their lights on. I'm wondering if I should crop it at the bottom. Would that bring the bridge in a little closer? I took this from the 36th floor of an office building at 6:49 pm on 10/7/04, RAW, ISO 64 F2 1/10 sec.



San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge at night 10/8/04 - taken from a pier near the ferry terminal. RAW of course and used a tripod on all of them.



Another view of the Bay Bridge at night - 10/8/04, 6:37 pm, ISO 64, F1.8, 2.5 sec.

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Thanks guys...
Thanks Thomas and Sid. I can't enter the "Time" challenge so of course I had to take pictures of big clocks and also "Nighttime". Hehehe. I'm home now. Had a great time in SF. I didn't have time to get over to the Golden Gate Bridge, but I took several shots of the Bay Bridge.

They were having a hotel workers strike at the hotel and I missed getting shots of the big ralley because I left my camera in the room. :whip There were a couple hundred demonstrators and they had drums and whistles. They marched all around the hotel at about 8 am. Some guy told me they did it at 6:30 am the week before.

There was an air show on the weekend, for "Fleet Week". I took a few shots of the planes, but I haven't worked them up. They're not great. The planes were way up there. They had a parade of ships. Aircraft carriers and such.

I enjoyed the farmers market at the Ferry Landing. Lots to see and lots of food to sample.

I would appreciate any comments on the processing of the night shots. This is only my second attempt at night work. I've tried several different versions of each of these. I think these are the best.

ian408

Yeeouza!

I like the two of the bridge at night!

Ian

jwear

thanks
I miss S.F. last 4 years have had to pass thru no stopping you pics made me miss it more bridge shots nice very nice!

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About the RAW processing...
Andy or anyone else,
My program has an eyedropper to use for the "grey point" to get the color in the processing. I click on a spot and it comes out more blue or more yellow etc. I aim for a kind of blue look to get rid of the yellow or brown cast on the water. I notice red pixels around the Port of San Francisco sign. How can I get rid of them? My Port of San Francisco shot seems a little blue, but OK. I prefer it to yellow. My two bridge shots are very different though they were taken on the same night. The clouds moved and I moved to a different spot, but I wonder if the difference was in the processing. One is light blue, the other is purple. Is this a good look for night stuff? Should I be aiming for something else? I'm not sure if either one looks "natural". Since I have never done this, I don't have much experience in what night shots should look like. I would appreciate a little critique. Be honest. I can take it. What should I be doing or not doing?
All input appreciated. Thanks.

cmr164

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Andy or anyone else,
My program has an eyedropper to use for the "grey point" to get the color in the processing. I click on a spot and it comes out more blue or more yellow etc. I aim for a kind of blue look to get rid of the yellow or brown cast on the water. I notice red pixels around the Port of San Francisco sign. How can I get rid of them? My Port of San Francisco shot seems a little blue, but OK. I prefer it to yellow. My two bridge shots are very different though they were taken on the same night. The clouds moved and I moved to a different spot, but I wonder if the difference was in the processing. One is light blue, the other is purple. Is this a good look for night stuff? Should I be aiming for something else? I'm not sure if either one looks "natural". Since I have never done this, I don't have much experience in what night shots should look like. I would appreciate a little critique. Be honest. I can take it. What should I be doing or not doing?
All input appreciated. Thanks.

I use the eye dropper WB in raw all the time. It is very well done in both Canon DPP and Kodak Photodesk. It is particularly interesting for color balancing stage performances where the actual light is strongly tinted. The real problem occurs when there is nothing white/grey/black to synch to. Then what you might try is playing with the color temperature.

Andy

super color tweak tool
snappy - first of all great shots, i love shooting in sf, and you've shown some fine work here

try shay's color fringe reducer originally designed to remove purple fringe and other ca from digital camera shots, i also use it for fine tuning little bits of color that bug me, just like the situation you are describing.

best $10 i *ever* spent

snapapple wrote:

Andy or anyone else,
My program has an eyedropper to use for the "grey point" to get the color in the processing. I click on a spot and it comes out more blue or more yellow etc. I aim for a kind of blue look to get rid of the yellow or brown cast on the water. I notice red pixels around the Port of San Francisco sign. How can I get rid of them? My Port of San Francisco shot seems a little blue, but OK. I prefer it to yellow. My two bridge shots are very different though they were taken on the same night. The clouds moved and I moved to a different spot, but I wonder if the difference was in the processing. One is light blue, the other is purple. Is this a good look for night stuff? Should I be aiming for something else? I'm not sure if either one looks "natural". Since I have never done this, I don't have much experience in what night shots should look like. I would appreciate a little critique. Be honest. I can take it. What should I be doing or not doing?
All input appreciated. Thanks.

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I envy you folks with PS CS...

cmr164 wrote:

I use the eye dropper WB in raw all the time. It is very well done in both Canon DPP and Kodak Photodesk. It is particularly interesting for color balancing stage performances where the actual light is strongly tinted. The real problem occurs when there is nothing white/grey/black to synch to. Then what you might try is playing with the color temperature.

andy wrote:

try shay's color fringe reducer originally designed to remove purple fringe and other ca from digital camera shots, i also use it for fine tuning little bits of color that bug me, just like the situation you are describing.
best $10 i *ever* spent

I think my problem is, I have to spend the money for a better program. I'm using the Camedia plug in for RAW. It has an exposure adjustment slider for lighter or darker and the WB eye dropper. I have already had the problem of no greys in these bridge shots. I just keep experimenting with different spots. They don't have a termperature slider at all. That looks so easy in Andy's tutorial. I'm also using PS Elements 2. Not good enough, I guess.

I spent the money for a 2gig Memory Card. That was great for the SF trip. Great for RAW. Now I'll have to get PS CS. But, I still need to get the SLR. I've seen a couple of Rebels for sale here, but just havn't been able to come up with the cash. My camera (Olympus c5050) is doing a pretty good job. The ISO only goes up to 400 - and it has a night mode, but otherwise I havn't had any problem. I think, for now, I'll spend $10 for that program of Shay's. I may even find a better program for RAW processing. I'll keep looking. Thanks for the tips.

photocat

Sf...
My fav of those pictures is the group of musicians, with the little baby in front of them. What a nice shot. They could live in 1900 or in 2004, it is a timeless photograph.
Nice and sharp, well composed, even if it is candid.

About the water pics with the bridges and harbor, I hate it when the water can flow out of the photograph because the horizon line is not straight.
We don't want empty seas do we???
Having said that, the total of the water-bridges shots look well focused to me, are nicely framed, and are attractive to look at. Which is in my simple opinion the main thing.

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Flowing oceans...

photocat wrote:

My fav of those pictures is the group of musicians, with the little baby in front of them. What a nice shot. They could live in 1900 or in 2004, it is a timeless photograph.
Nice and sharp, well composed, even if it is candid.

About the water pics with the bridges and harbor, I hate it when the water can flow out of the photograph because the horizon line is not straight.
We don't want empty seas do we???
Having said that, the total of the water-bridges shots look well focused to me, are nicely framed, and are attractive to look at. Which is in my simple opinion the main thing.

Thanks for the input, Photocat. I adjusted the first two bridge pics just a teensy bit. I had used a grid over them and thought they were level, but it may have been off a hair in the first one because of the island on the left. The second one, not sure, but I dropped the left side just a tad and it seems fine now. I also worked on some noise in the clouds. That red seems to be a problem for the digital camera. What does Andy call it, "frac-acktels"?
Don't know what that is, but looks like pixels to me. Vibrating, fracktalized pixels. Nasty little guys. :puke1

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Candid of musicians

photocat wrote:

My fav of those pictures is the group of musicians, with the little baby in front of them. What a nice shot. They could live in 1900 or in 2004, it is a timeless photograph.
Nice and sharp, well composed, even if it is candid.

I'm glad you liked that candid of the musicians. They were a very colorful and talented group. The guy on the base fiddle (on the far right) left for a minute to get lunch. Actually a good thing because he was blocking my view of the woman on the accordion. I got his fiddle anyway:D I had to position myself to compose the shot. I had to get on their left to get the sun behind me so that limited me. Then there was the group of young folks sitting on the ground directly in front of them with their heads blocking the view. The little girl was the child of the woman in the group, and she was toddling all around. She was so cute that I wanted to get her in the shot. Right after I shot this, the man came back with food and the woman and baby sat down in front with the other young folks and ate lunch. So it seems I got my shot just in time. Like Andy says, you have to see the moment and position yourself so as to arrange the elements, and do it all in a split second before the moment is gone forever. **Photography is so exciting in that aspect**. I feel like I preserved a moment in time and every time I look at that photo it will bring back the story to my mind. An example of "time" don't you think?

grimace

Love the Bay Bridge Shots!!
Snappy,

You did a great job on one of my favorite SF icons (The Bay Bridge). I look forward to seeing some of your other posts.

-Adam
www.adamstravelphotography.com

Boney

I liked the photo of the Tanglers too. The bones player looks especially handsome. The banjo player seems like a swell fella too from what I can see. Ah, they're all fine folk, I'm sure.

Shakey

Nice stuff Snappy. Keep more coming please


Tim

Awais Yaqub

: Lovley shots loved them thanks for sharing