Painted Ladies of San Francisco - a photo on Flickriver

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I've been recently inspired by all the night, architectural, and long exposure pictures that Jinna has been making and decided that I wanted to try some of my own. I know this particular picture has been done 1,006,347 times but it's been done exactly 0 times by me before.

I actually had pictured an HDR shot like this at dusk. I wanted to capture the bright colors of the painted ladies against the backdrop of a lit city under a purple sky. So I rushed out of my house and drove down there to do an HDR but by the time I got there and found parking it was already a bit too dark and the HDR stuff didn't come out right. It's tough to do a 9 exposure HDR when each shot requires the shutter to be open for 2.5 seconds. Instead, I made this 6 second exposure.

Taken on: March 14, 2009

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San Francisco

painted ladies

D300

Kit Lens

night photography

long exposure

composition

architecture

city lights

city

dusk

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Camera: Nikon D300, f/5.6, 6 sec, 55mm (=82mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D300
Lens:	18.0-55.0 mm f/3.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	6
Focal Length:	55mm (35mm equivalent: 82mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Unknown (-1)
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
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