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the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco
is probably one of the most popular
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photography spots out in this area I
visited San Francisco few times in the
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past but the first time I really have
the chance to photograph it was the
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Google Plus photographers com friends in
May 2012 I went out to the bridge with a
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few friends and we kind of crime down
this very daunting clip of rocks which
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apparently they were stairs we didn't
know about but we had adventure and we
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got to climb down the cliff area and
make it to the speech and i cant getting
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closer and closer and closer and closer
until I found a spot where I felt the
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composition was really strong now we
don't have any clouds and we didn't have
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any fog so I don't have a lot to work
with in the sky so I'm really made the
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focus of water in the bridge now the
first couple frames are actually the
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ones that I ended up liking the best
this is the first image that I took and
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you know I didn't use a filter I just a
straight shot have the Sun setting off
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to my left which had a nice or haze but
I really like what's happening in the
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sky in the background in the mountains
in the next glow on the actual bridge
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itself and then I forgot the soyuz this
kind of as a baseline for my my long
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exposure with the neutral density filter
and used I believe I used to attend stop
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and maybe even out of the neutral grad
students as well but the neutral density
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filter what it does is it it makes this
water here just completely soft you know
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and and just completely born equal thing
about it is that you can still see some
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of the shadow elements from the rocks as
a sun setting off to the left but I i
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decided to go with this image and then
the first image and burn them together
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quickly and show you some of the other
photos from this adventure you can see
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the doctor away from the spot here that
the clouds fog started to roll in I
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still kept playing around compositions
in different settings and different
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location
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ins but then the fog early going over
the bridge and ended up actually being
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really need towards the end and i ended
up some photographs and I do like here
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but you know ultimately it was those
first couple shots that I really liked
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overall so when I'm gonna do is I am
going to use both of these images here
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and so I'm actually have a kind of
eliminate a lot of noise and allowed the
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other images to filter them I haven't
both flag is flying a lot from my my
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picking up my room I'm gonna go ahead
and click on that filters so now all
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these two images to work with
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can even increase that thumbnail size
little bit know what I want to do is I
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want to try and balance the colors of
both of these frames they were
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photographed very similarly but when you
add a filter and density filter then
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oftentimes you get a color cast from
that filter fact so I'm gonna go into
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the development rural and discuss start
playing really kinda wanna match what I
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have going on here actually I'm going to
turn this down to bring the blues and a
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little bit and I'm gonna go back over to
the sky and bring that yellow up and
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play with my tones as well now I'm not
too concerned with getting them
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completely identical because I'm really
just taking the sky and the bridge from
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this one and I'm using the water from
this one so they don't have to be
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exactly the same as my masking and
everything is going to be going to be
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pretty simple and it's not gonna make a
huge difference if the colors are
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identical as long as they're similar in
a blend together so I just kind of keep
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going back and forth to these two images
I can really sink them because they were
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photographed in different conditions
with different you know how to filter on
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one server to sync them it wouldn't work
so I can't do the same thing that I've
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done for some of the other images I have
to do these really you know manual in by
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hand back to this coverage here
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magenta to someone but
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ok that's happening going on there now
gonna play around with some of the
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exposure contrast a little bit darkened
the sky little bit when I'm highlights
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that's kind of nice bring out some of
the shadows again I'm really only
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looking at the sky portion here not
really concerned with what's happening
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down below
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ok so I can have this guy finished to
the next one right I need to change my
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balance was gonna kind of funky
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right actually they're really similar ok
keep working on this guy actually gonna
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keep messing with my tones a little bit
of good things to be a little bit more
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punch in contrast you highlights down
and increase the light in the shadows
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and was worried just a nice contrast
maybe even brings most box a little bit
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ok ok so I assume just where I want them
to be to start now gonna take these into
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the Perfect Photo Suite 7 into Perfect
Layers I'm just gonna do it strains of
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Perfect Photo Suite I like to keep my
options open so I got a file plugin
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extra Perfect Photo Suite 7 this is
online software Perfect Photo Suite
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Perfect Photo Suite does a really good
job of masking in Perfect Layers it's
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really simple to do so right here you
can see I have the image of the water I
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want to keep the water in this scene and
I want to mask out what I have going on
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up here also don't like this little lens
flare sometimes lens for farrakhan look
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good but this one has a dot and just
kind of boring also had a lot more light
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happening over here on the scene but
even see as I talk to those on and off
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that they're not quite even you know
we're actually gonna have to move one of
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these images a little bit so what I'm
going to do is I'm going to change the
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opacity the top layer I'm gonna move it
down to go somewhere around 54 you 50%
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so we can see both images now we kind of
have a double vision thing happening
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here I'm going to go up to my
transformed to a laptop and I'm gonna
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use my Eric use my up and down arrow
keys to just move that image so it
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overlaps perfectly good even zoom in a
little bit and kind of get a better view
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here all that space bar to move things
around
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ok so it doesn't have to be exactly
perfect and I actually think I have a
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pretty close so I'm gonna go ahead and
apply that now going to go over to my
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gradient first I'm going to bed at
pasady going back two hundred percent so
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what I want to do is I want to remove
the sky on this front image and make it
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so I have the sky and the bridge of any
other image so many use the gradient
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tool it's a really the bug because the
bug in on software to make sure that my