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Golden Gate Morning
Golden Gate Bridge, Marin County, California

Nikon D70, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G
polarizer + 81A
Gitzo 1228LVL, RRS BH-55, PCL-II panoramic clamp
DxO (wb, exp, blur, distorion, ca, vignette. noise) Photoshop (digital blending, CHLomo) nik CEP (pro contrast. brilliance/warmth) Aperture (crop. shadow/highlight, noise reduction, sharpen)
(3 exposures, 1/400-1/25sec) @ f/9, iso 200, 12mm (18mm)
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Michael Fletcher is visiting the Golden Gate bridge so I’m posting a shot I have of it.

Being on the Marin side on the winter morning meant that it was much too bright to take a shot of the city after the sun rose. I composed this shot away from the sun and hoped that the matrix meter and bracketing would do an adequate enough job to allow digital blending to work.

This was shot with last night's light balance so I had DxO adjust the white balance to daylight.

On the third exposure, I caught a stroke of luck as a truck passed just out of frame. I had to leave it in the shot. :-)

When blending, I noticed that I had forgotton to lock down my ballhead and so some alignment was needed. Since it wasn’t perfect, I chose to blend the +2EV as the land on the right giving the whole scene a little “halo.” I left in the -2EV and 0EV portions for much of the foreground to vignette away the stakes in the ground. It turns out the -2EV was dark enough that I could have composed some more of the city into frame. Oh well! live and learn.

I cropped it to 16:9 because it looks much cooler this way.

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Taken on: February 23, 2006

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Camera: Nikon D70, f/9.0, 1/25 sec, 12mm (=18mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D70
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.04 sec (1/25)
Focal Length:	12mm (35mm equivalent: 18mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	+2 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh
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