Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Berkeley Freeway at Night

Since junior high school, I've wanted to take a long exposure night shot of Interstate 80 near Berkeley. But it wasn't practical back then because of a lot of reasons: 1. All I had was my mom's Ricoh KR5 SLR (which she bought sometime around 1973). 2. I didn't have the money for enough film to get the right shot. 3. I didn't own a tripod 4. There wasn't a good spot to take the shot. 5. I lived in Sacramento. Now, over twenty years later, it's practical because: 1. I own a digital SLR. 2. I have two 4GB CompactFlash cards. 3. I own a tripod. 4. A pedestrian bridge overlooking the highway now exists. 5. I live less than ten miles away in Oakland. Now onto the critique of the photo. I hate hate hate the chain link fence! It's not the look I was going for. I didn't realize that the bridge was surrounded by fencing until I was halfway up the bridge. Safety first I guess. Darn it. Photo info: 52.5mm focal length, f/13, 10 sec, ISO 200, 8:18 pm

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