Ferry Building From Above

This is a shot of the San Francisco Ferry Building. I have always wanted to get a nice shot of the building but the lights below make it hard to do that, after some exploring around I found this place. This is shot from the Hyatt across the street in their fire escape. As I was shooting this I surprised a worker there, he opened up the door to get some fresh air and he saw me with my tripod setup taking this shot, definitely not what he was expecting on his break.

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San Francisco Muni PCC Car

This is a shot of one of San Francisco Muni's Historic PCC cars. Most of these were bought from Philidelphia & New Jersey & they were built in the 40's. Each of these streetcars were painted to be replica's of old city railways. This was is painted as the old Pacific Railways line from Los Angeles.

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The Back Side Of The Ferry Building

This is an HDR of the back side of the San Francisco Ferry Building, it was then converted to black and white.

I was barley able to get this shot, apparently the pier I shot this from closes at a certain time, I was in the middle of my shots and security was hurrying me up, and of course being night the exposures were taking awhile. I was able to stall enough to get all the shots that I wanted to get.

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San Francisco Painted Ladies At Night

Here is an HDR image of the San Francisco Painted Ladies just after sunset, shot from Alamo Square Park. If you watched the old show Full House, this is the park they are hanging out in during the opening montage. This was also a nice clear night so downtown was visible in the background.

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This is a HDR image of the Golden Gate Bridge, which was then converted to Black and White and textures were added on top of that.

This was taken on the drive up to Fort Point, which can be seen at the lower left hand corner of the picture. This is an old fort which is interesting to take a tour of, plus it offers fantastic views under the bridge, in some cases so close you feel like you could touch the bridge.

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The Palace Of Fine Arts At Night

This is a 3 shot HDR image of the Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco California. If you ever get a chance to come out here you should do so, they park is very nice in the day time, and at night as you can see it is very nice. Plus there is free parking available here, which is very rare in San Francisco.

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Ghirardeli Square

This is a HDR image of Ghirardeli Square in San Francisco. This was taken from an area that is really great for catching crabs. I guess it must not be allowed anymore because a cop told us to leave the area a little after we got this shot.

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When The Lights Go On In The City...

This is a 7 shot HDR image of San Francisco from Treasure Island.

Treasure Island offers fantastic views of San Francisco as you can see from this picture. Lots of photographers go here for pictures as well. The night we came there was a class going on along with 5 other photographers outside of the class.

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Rocket Man...

This is a 3 shot HDR image of a rocket sculpture in San Francisco.

This was a fantastic night for taking photos in San Francisco, the moon was full, and fast moving clouds really provided an excellent back drop for pictures, really a fun night to be out and shooting photos.

Take a look at what the HDR treatment does to a photo, below is an image that was shot at the proper exposure, and you can see that many parts you miss out on because the image is not exposed well in a lot of parts. In particular look at the sign that lights up, in the proper exposure you can't really see any of the deatail but the HDR you can. Also some of the legs of the rocket ship are washed out, but not in the HDR.

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Bridge To The City

Sorry for the long time in between posts but we have been busy finding a place to move, hopefully we will be able to take more pictures and post regularly soon.

Here is a 5 shot HDR image of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and some of the skyline of San Francisco.

This night was such a beautiful one in the city. A summer night but it felt as if it could have been a winter night as cold as it was. The clouds were just right as well, they hid the moon and made it very interesting. The clouds were moving so fast the scene changed very fast, such an interesting night!!

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Doom and Gloom

This is a one shot HDR, and was then converted to Black & White, of downtown San Francisco. This was shot from a boat coming back from Alcatraz.

The day started off very nice and sunny, but on the way back from Alcatraz the weather changed to a gloomy feel. Converting it to B&W really brought out the gloominess of the day.

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San Francisco in B&W

This is a 3 shot HDR image of Pier 7 in San Francisco, CA, we then converted it to B&W.

We spent a couple of nights in San Francisco back in March and the days and nights were very nice, and very clear. We have done a couple of shots of this Pier before but there are so many different things you can do in post process. There is so many lights on the dock it casts a bit of a yellow on the scene, so switching it to B&W we felt really takes that a way and gives the beauty of the scene.

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Fort Point From Above

This is a 3 shot HDR image of Fort Point in San Francisco, California. This was shot from above on the Golden Gate Bridge. It is really quite fun to go over the Golden Gate Bridge, you can walk or if you prefer many places around Fisherman's Wharf offer bike rentals to bike across the bridge. On clear days you get nice views of the downtown skyline.

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The Painted Ladies

This is a 3 shot HDR image of the San Francisco Painted Ladies, also known as Postcard Row. One of the most popular area's in San Francisco to take pictures of. This was shot from Alamo Square, a park across the street.

These houses are also famous from a T.V. show. If you remember the old show Full House, the opening credit shot when the family is playing in the park, with the houses in the background. This is that park!!

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Pier 39 From Above

This is a 3 shot HDR of Pier 39 in the foreground, and Angel Island and Alcatraz in the background. This was shot from the top of Coit Tower, which really gives you great 360 degree views of the city. The windows can be a problem when you try to take a shot, but good positioning and processing can get you really nice photos.

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Sailling In San Francisco

This is a 3 shot HDR and converted to black and white, and textures were added. This was shot on the boat coming back from Alcatraz. Kind makes you think what the prisoners thought when they were seeing stuff like this on their way to freedom.

It was such a nice day on the bay, but the shot was coming out very bland in coloring so we changed over to black and white and it really made the photo look nice.

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The Icon

Probably one of the most recognizable landmarks in San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge. This is a 3 shot HDR image of the bridge.

The HDR really brought out the red in the bridge, when you are there you really see this kind of a red on the bridge. When you see the bridge in person it is really something, and you can get super close to the bridge as well. Fort Point is right under the bridge on the San Francisco side. On the top level of the fort you really feel like you can reach out and touch the bottom of the bridge.

If you are ever around San Francisco make sure you make some time to see this beautiful bridge. 

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Mine, Mine, Mine

Sorry we could not resisit the title on this one (in case you are not familer, it's from the seagulls in Finding Nemo). That's what really came to mind with this guy here, he looks like if you mess with him you would be sorry, espically if there is some food aroud.

This is a 3 shot HDR shot on Alcatraz in San Francisco California. Notice how the HDR brings out the feathers really well on the seagull.

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The Streets Of San Francisco

This is a 3 shot HDR image, and it was then converted to black and white. This one of the many streets in San Francisco that is on a hill, the rail in the middle really kind of leads you in to the TransAmerica Pyramid in the background.

Be careful if you ever try a shot like this in San Francisco, the drivers really fly up and down the hill, so always be on the look out for that.

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The Downward Spiral...

Here is a picture of a popular destination to photograph, the stairs at Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, California.

Since this is such a common photo, we wanted to do something a little different with them. This is a three shot HDR, converted to black and white, some color was then added back in, and textures were applied. What do you think?

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