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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