Long exposures under the Golden Gate bridge

We knew this was a stereotype. You can imagine our surprise when we arrived at our host’s (we booked accommodation through airbnb.com) place to find an acupuncture practitioner Buddhist who paints and loves organic food. She and her boyfriend are intensely relaxed, friendly and full of interesting stories.

Last night, we found ourselves in a small independent movie theatre with them watching a 1976 Clint Eastwood western with some beer and pizza. Clint spat a lot – he spat on a dog’s head 3 times, a scorpion, a man’s jacket and a horse.

Today we’re off to rent a car and hopefully buy an ipad. We’re also due to meet up with some long lost friends we met in Korea.

Let the adventures in Portland begin.

Today’s Photo – Long exposures under the Golden Gate bridge

Then entire bottom half of this image was taken with the brightest exposure (+2 ev), while the rest was a combination of the 0 and -2 exposures.
A 30 second exposure was exactly what I needed to obtain the silky smooth water and to pull a necessary amount of details from the rocks.

Although I added a vignette around the image in Lightroom, I was careful not to darken the bottom right of the image. I felt that the powdery water rolling against the sharply edged rocks should highlighted and lead us all the way to the bridge.

The birds you see were added in from a shot I took on the same morning and were there to add something extra to an otherwise empty space.

Before the Joys of Post-Processing