Majestic Sunday Night Traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge

admin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:33:11 +0000

This past Sunday while driving home from an engagement session in San Francisco I stopped at the Marin side vista point of the Golden Gate Bridge to see if the heavy evening traffic would make for a nice photo. That’s the amazing thing about the Golden Gate bridge, even a traffic jam on the bridge can make for a nice photo. Here are the details on how this image was made. I was hand holding a 70-200mm f 4.0 zoom on my Canon 5D Mark II and took the photo at 1/25 of a second at f 4.5 ISO 2500 using the image stabilization ( IS ) feature. The IS made it possible to take a steady photo at 1/25 of second with the lens extended out to 200mm. While the traffic made for a nice photo, I don’t think that was on the minds of the travelers who were slowly moving across the bridge at 8:48 PM on a Sunday night.

The Transamerica Pyramid, Coit Tower and other San Francisco landmarks from the Marin side vista point at the Golden Gate Bridge.

Canon 5D Mark2 ISO 6400 sRAW

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:30:47 +0000

This image was made using a Canon 5D Mark 2 shooting on sRAW mode at ISO 6400 with a Canon 300mm f4.0 lens at 1/500 second at f4.0. The image was converted from sRAW to a 3861 x 2574 JPG using Adobe Lightroom 2.3. There were no noise reduction actions taken on either of the top two pictures. The middle image is the full frame capture, while the top one has been cropped. The bottom image had noise reduction applied via Noise Ninja.

Canon 5D Mark 2 sRAW at ISO 6400 No noise reduction. Night football

Full frame ISO 6400 image from Canon 5D Mark 2 at ISO 6400

Canon 5D Mark 2 photo ISO 6400 on sRaw with noise reduction

The image was made at the East Bay Outlaws vs Central Valley Rams game on April 11th at Freedom High School in Brentwood.

This wedding photo was made on the 5D Mark 2 at ISO 6400 in the sRAW mode. The image photographed at 1/125 at f2.8 on a Canon 70-200 zoom at 200mm. There was no noise reduction done to this photo which is a full frame image.

Full frame ISO 6400 sRAW Canon 5D mark2 wedding image with no noise reduction applied photo

This is the same wedding ceremony image with a 30% crop and noise reduction applied via Noise Ninja.

Cropped wedding photo shot using Canon 5D mark 2 sRAW with noise reduction applied photo

February 2011 Update: Nikon has announced the D800,it’s update to the very successful D700. While the camera hasn’t hit the street yet, many users have noticed that the RAW files size has jumped from 12MB on the D700 to 35MB on the D800 with no option for a smaller RAW file like Canon offers.

Just to give Nikon users an idea of what you can get from a sRAW file, I’ve linked the full sized high resolution conversion of the football photo from above. Details about the sRAW file that the conversion was made from. The image was made on a Canon 5Dmk2 in the sRAW mode. The sRAW file created was 17.0MB. The exposure settings were ISO 6400, 1/500 of a second, f4.0 using a Canon 300mm f4.0 IS lens. The file dimensions are 3861 x 2574 pixels. The conversion was done in Lightroom 3.4.1 using Camera Raw 6.4.1.

Straight from camera with brightness bump only from +50 to +65. Quality 100. No sharpening. No nothing. sRAW ISO 6400 SOOC – 5.71MB

Lightroom adjustments – Brightness +65, Quality 100. Sharpening 66, Radius 0.5, Detail 25 | Noise Reduction – Luminance 50, Detail 50, Color 25 - sRAW ISO 6400 with Noise Reduction and Sharpening – 5.07 MB

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Majestic Sunday Night Traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge

Canon 5D Mark2 ISO 6400 sRAW