After visiting the San Francisco Bay Area for years I realized that trying to predict or even guess the weather are impossible tasks. I stopped trying it a long time ago. All you can do is to wait for a half-hour or so and there is a high chance that everything will change.
Before taking this shot at Battery Godfrey I was at China Beach and it was a clear day with the boring sky. But, only a short drive later I witnessed this amazing view with the low clouds and not usual fog, covering the top of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Loc: 37.804722, -122.476944
And after waiting for another 15min I managed to place a cargo ship leaving San Francisco in my composition.
Everything was unplanned and unpredictable.
Shooting
The shooting part was easy. I was shooting on a tripod and I took 3 bracketing shots with 1EV intervals.(-1, 0, 1). All my attention was concentrated on how to place 3 main elements of the scene (tree, bridge, and cargo ship) into a meaningful composition.
- Camera: Sony a6000
- Lens: Sony-16-70
- Focal Length: 16mm
- Shooting Mode: Aperture Priority (A)
- ISO: 100
- Aperture: F8
- Shutter: 1/800s
- Bracketing: 3 (-1, 0, 1)
- Tripod: FEISOL Tournament CT-3442
- Ballhead: FEISOL CB-40D
