Lights of the City
The lights of the bridge and city had come on, and it was getting cold. I stayed for a last photo of the sunset, knowing that using digital post-processing I could render a far greater exposure range than ever would have been possible with film!
Meta info: Nikon D70 Raw capture, AF-S VR-Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED at 86mm (appx 129mm 35mm equivalence); tripod with VR (vibration reduction) turned off.
Exif: ISO 200, 0.3 second, f/2.8.
Focus: Automatic, at infinity.
Post: The Raw file for the photo was processed twice (once for the foreground lights and once for the bridge and sky) and combined using a layer mask and a gradient. Once the layers were combined, I added a dark blue gradient to the sky of this image and performed routine level adjustments and sharpening.
December 12th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
[...] arious eyries in the Berkeley Hills (see Bay Sunset Silhouette, Sunset Over San Francisco, Lights of the City, and Brilliance of Venus). This is really my first season photographing sunsets and [...]