I'd have gone for a darker sky. One of the secrets of night photography as taught
to me by an old news photographer is to bracket by 2-4 stops rather than 1 or 1/2
stop increments.


At 02:14 AM 2/24/04, you wrote:
I read a few books and watched postings to try learn the tricks of doing
these long night exposures.
Amateur as I am, but eager to learn from the myriads of those clearly less
amateur than I, I'd love
to receive your advice on what to do better.
Weather was "muggy", temperature mid-50's (bl...y cold for San Diego), PZ-1P
with (old) Takumar
135mm F2.5, and velbon tripod, F8 for ~8secs on Fujicolor 200
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2157930
I also wanted to tell those who may venture to this area, that this was just
so easy to get to, behind the Il Fornaio restaurant on Coronado, is a path
with splendid views of downtown SD just waiting to tickle your silver cells.
All comments welcome.
Thanks
Ian

I drink to make other people interesting.
-- George Jean Nathan




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