Happy Labor Day folks! Hope that you are having a wonderful Labor Day Weekend. After today, summer is ‘officially’ over and everyone is back to school or work this Tuesday… Unless you are in retail, then you’re working today and I feel your pain. Anyways, football is back this Wednesday and the A’s are making a run for the pennant! Yeah!!!
A few days ago, after work, I headed over to both the Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island to meet up with some friends (Joe Ercoli, Tom Finale, Paul Giani, … Continue reading Good Times on the Islands
I’ll be going out to Yerba Buena Island today after work to take some photos of the Bay Bridge. I’ve been wanting to take pictures of both the San Francisco span and Oakland span of the Bay Bridge ever since I posted pictures of the bridge on this blog. Joe Ercoli, Tom Finale, James Perez, Paul Giani, Jorman Koon, and I will be making the trek around the island. This time I’ll be taking my GoPro HERO2 and a POS Canon PowerShot ELPH 100 HS since I no longer have my Canon Rebel XSi.
With the GoPro, I’m going to attempt to do a time lapse of the sun setting in the west with the San Francisco Bay Bridge span in the foreground. I haven’t had the chance to pick up the LCD Back for the GoPro so I’ll be shooting blind, technically. I’ve played around with the GoPro enough that I have an idea of what I’ll be capturing.
Once the sun set, we’ll be heading to the east end of the island to take shots of the Oakland span that has both the new Bay Bridge and current Bay Bridge section. There has been a lot of progress done to the new span of the bridge since the last time that I was there on Yerba Buena Island. The bridge now have cables hanging down from the main cable.
The photo above was taken from an ACTransit bus as I was heading to the East Bay. So as you can tell from the Google Map photo from the very top of this post, that when compared to the Instagram photo above, there has been a ton of progress on the new span.
I plan on shooting the Oakland span with the POS Canon. I’m worried about the quality of photos that I’ll get. I hope that it wont be a waste of time trying to shoot with the POS. Actually, I know it wont be a true waste of time since I’ll be seeing friends that I haven’t seen in few months. I do know that the POS is not a DSLR and that the quality will not be as good.
We are just have to stay tuned to see how everything turned out. So stay tuned. Maybe if time permits I’ll post something from tonight’s photo adventure later early tomorrow morning.
I’ve been crossing across the Bay Bridge lately and each time I cross the bridge, I feel that it’s time to go take another visit to Yerba Buena Island. From … Continue reading Time to Visit Yerba Buena Island. Again.
Happy Monday folks! I hope that all of you had a wonderful weekend.
Here’s one of my attempts at playing around with black and white photography with a texture overlay.
I used an antique grunge paper texture from Free Stock Textures.
That I blended it over my original image.
Let me know what you all think, I welcome all types of feed back.
Thanks and have a wonderful week 🙂
It’s Friday and I’m almost off! Can’t wait for the weekends to get here. Hope that the rest of you are already off and at happy hour 🙂
Side note, thanks for all the wonderful years in the green and gold to Kurt Suzuki, who just got dealt to the Nationals today.
Took this shot of the BART train on the West Oakland outbound platform early July. While waiting for my transfer, I took advantage if the setting sun with the incoming train. The end result is this Instagram photo of BART that has movement.
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