(The final part of my San Francisco series)
The architecture of San Franciso has always fascinated me; its topography, density and spacing is quite unique and and the buildings themselves offer quite a variety of modern and classic. San Francisco is quite the character. I aboslutely love the Victorian facades of the homes and the eccentricity of Chintatown. The Golden Gate Bridge is awe inspiring as is the Palace of Fine arts, which I was surprised to find, was located the middle of a residential area; it is a jaw-dropping spectacle. Walking beside the columns and under the archways, I took a moment take digest it all - I wasn't in Europe or the Medeterranian, but on U.S. soil, and on the West coast, no doubt.
I shot most of these with my trusty 24-105L f4 "walkabout" on my 5D Mark II. The fisheye photos are courtesy of a 15mm. I used a graduated neutral density filter, which underexposed the skies by 2 stops and pulled the details in the clouds out (excitedly) afterwards with Lightroom 4. (This was the first set of pics I edited in LR4, so I may have gotten a little excited and overtweaked them.)
I think I hit a fairly good amount of locations in one day. My shoot setup did not include a tripod, which could have resulted in more stylized shots and perhaps less photos, but I stand by my semi-documentarian style choice. :)
