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Jim Collier > Same thing, wider angle.
Jim Collier > The bridge and the city. There's a plane on final to SFO at top right. I love the mostly fog-free hill with the silhouetted trees at top left. Haven't quite figured out where that is. Might be Corona Heights Park.
Jim Collier > Golden Gate Bridge with Crissy Field in the background.
Jim Collier > Summer fog creeping in through the the paths of least resistance.
Jim Collier > This is one of my early infrared test shots with an unmodified camera--meaning a tripod, high ISO, long exposure, in-camera noise reduction, and lots of guesswork and luck on focus and exposure (which are all unnecessary with a modified camera).But there's something about this shot that I really like, even when compared to my more technically "sophisticated" shots with a modded camera, and in spite of the fact that it's one of (if not the) most common views in the history of Golden Gate Bridge photography.I "should" also dislike this shot because the bridge looks unbalanced and precariously unsupported with this choice of framing, as if it's about to fall into the bay. Yet probably millions of people have taken this shot from the same location and with nearly identical framing. And I still like this particular one.
Jim Collier > At one point I counted something like 8 helicopters and 14 planes visible in the sky at one time. On a very hazy day.
Jim Collier > The Queen Mary 2: Not the largest boat, but as of that date the largest ocean liner, and the largest boat to enter SF bay. They had to time it to the highest tide, and had 30 ft. clearance under the bridge.Though I love boats and water, I knew nothing about ocean liners and cruise ships, or that there was even a difference. (Mainly because I have no desire to be trapped for days on a floating hotel that wastes a gallon of fuel for every 29 feet traveled, packed to the gills with a bunch of drunken sunburned tourists. Sounds like a horror movie, not a vacation!)So after becoming an expert after three minutes of skimming the subject on Wikipedia, I have found what the differences are:Ocean liners are transportation, cruise ships are party boats.Ocean liners are designed to cross open ocean such as the North Atlantic. Cruise ships don't stray too far into rough open waters.Ocean liners attract a comparatively decadent clientele (you know&mdash;the old money that dines with the captain and if the ship starts sinking they all run around shooting riff-raff like Leonardo DiCaprio). Cruise ships are packed with the people that would normally be confined to the steerage deck on an ocean liner. (Just so you don't think I'm being elitist: I'd be fine on the Fiesta Deck&mdash;you know, the one below Steerage.)
Jim Collier > More of the Coast Guard helicopter in infrared.
Jim Collier > Golden Gate Bridge and bay area on a super-clear day. Shot from the GGNRA on Hawk Hill.I'm not crazy about the mix of un-complimentary colors (the brown foreground hills kill it). Nor is the hard contrast that existed at that moment in time very flattering (which is the dual-edge of ultra-clear evenings.)Original resolution was 68 megapixel but due to SmugMug limitations, print resolution here is 19,067 x 2,465 (47 megapixel); like all shots, this prints without the copyright notice.Stitched with panotools, autopano, and PTAssembler from 26 photos.This is about as close to a technically perfect panorama as you'll find (or at least that I've done)--in terms of alignment, stitching accuracy, tone-matching, etc.
Same thing, wider angle.
Jim Collier > Same thing, wider angle.
Same thing, wider angle.
See photo in original gallery.
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