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San Francisco Seal Rocks – Worldwide Photowalk 2010

Posted on | July 27, 2010 | 5 Comments

Black and White Photo of Seal Rocks, San Francisco, CA at Night

Black and White Photo of Seal Rocks, San Francisco, CA at Night

This was the last photo I took during Saturday’s Worldwide Photowalk at the Seal Rocks in San Francisco which was led by Jim Goldstein. It was nearly pitch black outside except for the lights from the Cliff House beaming down from above which illuminated the Seal Rocks and the Pacific Ocean. I decided to go for a “hail mary” type of photo since I couldn’t really see well enough to focus and went for ISO 6400 with a 30 second exposure at f16 while a certain famous landscape photographer was relegated to looking on with his trusty Nikon… ;-)

I didn’t take a lot of photos since the weather wasn’t all that good to put it mildly but it was fun catching up with friends and meeting a few new people in the process. I had never attended a photowalk before but this one had about 35 I would guess which was a pretty good number. Of course everyone has their own priorities, of which some photographers seemed purely interested in taking photos for the contest rather than networking or learning but I was mainly there just to hang out since I had been to this location many times in the past.

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5 Responses to “San Francisco Seal Rocks – Worldwide Photowalk 2010”

  1. Derrick
    July 27th, 2010 @ 8:09 pm

    Outstanding shot!

  2. Richard
    July 27th, 2010 @ 10:03 pm

    Thank you Derrick.

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    July 28th, 2010 @ 6:02 am

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  4. David Leland Hyde
    July 28th, 2010 @ 11:26 am

    This makes a lovely black and white. Great contrast emphasizes the rocks.

  5. Richard
    July 28th, 2010 @ 3:49 pm

    Thanks David. The contrast was mainly due to the sky being pitch black with the only light being from the Cliff House above. I thought it looked better as black and white since the colors were a bit over-the-top.

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