Here are some pictures from various places in the Bay Area, and pictures from November when I went to Fort Point with my friend Dick Stahlke. Most of the Fort Point shots are 7- to 9- exposure HDR.
Seen while I was walking around somewhere with my iPhone. Don't remember where, but since it's part of a car it doesn't matter.
There are several nice little plazas on Market Street. Richard Martin inspired me to shoot shadows, and when Nevada Weir give a lecture to our Council she showed a photo presented like this one, and I liked the idea.
A view of Balmy Alley in the Mission District of San Francisco. I had to wait 25 minutes in a drizzle to get a decent couple in the foreground.
A man who was working on the house admired some of my rust pictures and said that he had a machete with a rust spot that looked like a skull. Indeed he did - it was about 1 cm across, so I shot it
I was visiting a coffee shop in San Leandro and saw a couple of interesting awnings. Here is the other
One of the members of the Livermore club told me about the shoe garden at Alamo Square, and I really wanted to see it. I found one or two compositions that seem to work.
On our jaunt to the City I saw this at the end of the pier at Aquatic Park. That pier would be a wonderful place for a night shot of the City, but it closes at 5 PM
Dick Stahlke and I went to the City last week, and really didn't find much, but this was at Fisherman's Wharf
My son and I visited the battleship Iowa yesterday. I thought that that menacing sky deserved HDR.
I went on a night shoot with Gale Perry and my friends Joan Field and Dick Stahlke. Here is the Bay Bridge from Pier 7 in San Francisco
Here is the Bay Bridge from the Grizzly Peak viewpoint in Berkeley (or maybe Oakland - dunno where the boundary is.) Made on the same night shoot as the one above, and used HDR and Topaz Adjust to improve it.
I found this stump on my walk yesterday. I have walked past this spot many times before and never noticed it, so I wonder if it was just cut down. I used Topaz Adjust to jazz it up a little.
I went into San Francisco a few days ago to practice with my new iPhone and worked on Occupy San Francisco. I made an effort to get SF icons in the background - the Bay Bridge is in this one.
With the bridge in the background. Wasn't intentional but I'm glad it's a bit out of focus. Two- conversion HDR
On the ground floor (I think) at Fort Point. I used Photomatix for a 9-exposure HDR and then Topaz Adjust 5 to enhance it a bit.
