I have now come back in here twice to look at the "no parking" shot. I really dig it!

Well done!

Was the light actually red or did you adjust the color in PS?

 

I agree, I really like that shot!

 

It was like that.

I drove past it...then backed up. lol

It's right in front of a busy parking garage in financial district.

I want to go back with a better camera.

I'm in front of one garage that says Public Parking.

But the lettering is really fancy cursive italic neon lettering...looks kind of gangster.

There is one right next to it to that says Private.

It's a single garage.

I want to go back and take a shot right in front of it.

The pics I posted are the originals.

No editing.

Seriously though...my camera doesn't do it justice because the color is soo brilliant.

Just casted this amazing glow down on the car.

 

#1, is that the tunnel on stockton street that goes into chinatown?

#2,

#3, by the ferry building on embarcadero, closer to howard st?

#4, corner of market and steuart ?

 

anyways yea not much you can do with the older P&S w/o manual controls.

 

1) Correct. That was a hard shot to get.

2) Battery Street @ Pine I think.

3) Embarcadero...pretty close to Howard.

4) Dead end of Market Street. (One Market)

 

hm.... im heading out to SF right now.

ill keep those places in mind and bring my camera along.

 

Most of the places I would imagine you would have to go really late.

I only had luck at around 3:30 - 4am

After the bars closed and most people were home already.

Good luck.

 

check out treasure island if you want some cool views.

 

Yeah I've taken shots there already.

Been all over the island.

Last I went was about 2 months ago.

My buddies and I are on the hunt for more bridge shots.

I want something that has a lot of light and bridge detail.

It's always so damn foggy though.

Also...too many people around.

 

More bridge pics like this...

A lot of car & foot traffic.

I had to sit for 45 minutes to get this shot.

 

I got Lightroom...

Hopefully I can figure out how you fixed those two images.

 

Uh Oh... Somebody caught the bug...

 

Haha...currently downloading some tutorials and I got some presets.

Do you know...

Do I have to install presets in a certain folder like plug-ins?

It's kind of slow with it's "flash" type programming...at least on my Viao.

 

I actually really like #3 and think the grainy look adds to the image. #2 is an amazing composition too.

Don't beat yourself up too much over your image quality. Once upon a time everybody shot film and shots like you showed were the norm. I have a friend that shoot almost exclusively film and looking at her images I am coming to the realization that getting all worked up over IQ distracts me from composition.

 

Someone once said that if people notice the grain in your images, the image probably wasn't all that interesting to start with.

 

OP, I like the new AV. It's a keeper!

 

Thanks man!

But I'm bothered with poor image quality.

For certain pics "noise" is great if that's the desired effect.

I really wasn't trying for that here.

I tend to agree with that statement.

Thanks! I think so too.

 

if its any consolation location and angle are good to me. Car looks awesome too

 

Thanks man. I'm trying.

 

You've got a really good eye. The equipment can be upgraded over time a lot easier than developing a style and composition that works.

As Jup mentioned, just get a decent P&S with manual controls. But be careful, the photography bug is dangerous!

 

Thanks.

I know...the bad thing is that I easily catch bugs.

 

The camera's age is not as big an issue as the initial market segment it was meant for.

I highly recommend a Sony DSC-F717 as a quality point and shoot on a budget. You could probably get one for around $50. I own a lot of the Sony F-series cameras because I think they're awesome.

They are overlooked now because of every camera (including cell phones) sporting over 10 megapixels, but megapixels aren't everything. The F series up to the F828 had large pixels on a decent sized sensor, which means low noise. They had excellent lenses and full manual controls.

 

I'll have to look into that camera.

Not familiar with it.