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The photography club held a shoot-out at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Photographing buildings does not usually interest me, but I saw this as an opportunity to practice night photography. We arrived around 4:00pm to catch the late afternoon sun. Shooting up with a wide angle lens will distort tall structures, making them lean in toward the center. This can be fixed in post processing, but for this photo I choose to make the columns lean even more to emphasize the enormity of the structure.
The photography club held a shoot-out at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Photographing buildings does not usually interest me, but I saw this as an opportunity to practice night photography. We arrived around 4:00pm to catch the late afternoon sun. Shooting up with a wide angle lens will distort tall structures, making them lean in toward the center. This can be fixed in post processing, but for this photo I choose to make the columns lean even more to emphasize the enormity of the structure.
Our real goal was to photograph during the magic light hour near sunset, after the lights come on, but while the sky is still blue. This is a 13 second exposure (f16) taken 45 minutes after sunset.
This is my favorite:a 30 second exposure (f22) taken 1 hour after sunset.
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This 15 second exposure (f16) was taken over an hour after sunset.I straightened the pillars this time.
This was just one of the many beautiful and interesting placesto photograph in San Francisco.
More photos from this shoot are on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suebrazelton/
Susan, these shots are amazing! They could be on a magazine cover. The night ones especially.
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