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Jun 29, 2017 13:46:41   #
Same shot as "Bay Bridge from Embarcadero", but:

-1 night later
-Added a B+W circular polarizer to take some haze out of the image
-Hoya ND 6 filter
-Switched from ISO 200 to ISO 100
-F/11
-120 second exposure
-26 mm
-Manual white balance shot through ND filter

Was asked "Why manual white balance?" I was shooting JPG. I have an old/slow Nikon D60, and its speed and storage are a bit limited. Therefore I don't generally shoot raw. As a result I try to get the best live shot that I can capture. At this location there's a lot of sodium vapor lighting right behind me, and it was leaving every shot looking a bit orange. The auto white balance was not dealing very well with it.

Was asked "Why the circular polarizer?" True, it's usually used to reduce reflection off the water, and to saturate colors. But that night there was a very light fog in the air. I was getting a lot of scatter from the lighting around me. The CP was strictly a trial and error attempt to remove some of the backscatter that I was getting off of the fog. It worked out. What can I say?


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Jun 19, 2017 18:19:05   #
Nikon D60, 18 mm, Hoya 6 stop ND filter, ISO 200, F8, 90 second exposure.


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