Three two one
Today is gonna be a very exciting day. It's gonna be a lot of fun
just a barrel of laughs. So we're packing up our gear
we're gonna go ahead and walk from my house through the trails
and we're walking across the Golden Gate Bridge
and then we're heading over to the Marin Headlands to do some hiking
and then I'm hoping to get a day to night time lapse
overlooking the city and overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
Is that good? Or was that bad? Did you like the today is going to be a very
exciting day part? Hiking up the headlands? I don't know
let's get a move on huh? Sorry we can redo that
Perfect day for hiking but not the best day for photography but we're gonna
try and make the best out of it because if we get a great shot awesome, if not no
worries. I packed up Sony A7rii
with Nikon 16-35 and then I also have the
original a7s with a 24-105 to get a little bit longer
and then snacks. So we got an apple a peanut butter and honey sandwich
some protein bars and things. A little bit of camera gear
mostly food.
So we started off right across from Baker Beach and then we're gonna pop
right through here
and that is where we're going to walk along the Golden Gate Bridge.
So we just crossed over the Golden Gate we're going to keep climbing
about a thousand feet or so, we're gonna go through this trail
and then right over here we're gonna get a really spectacular view of the city.
We're in the headlands, we're up the hill, we made it. This view is really cool
because you can see everything.
There's so many things to shoot right now but before I do any of that
I need to eat my peanut butter sandwich. There's a lot to take in and I want to
make sure I'm just enjoying it before I actually decide to pull my gear out.
I'm all about the smooth peanut butter like when I'm digging into
a peanut butter sandwich I don't want chunks. I am assuming people are buying
the chunky peanut butter, I just don't, yeah I don't really understand it.
I decided to set up this 100 mil shot of just the skyline from this angle and
I wanted to get all the boats going around in the bay because we don't have
any clouds rolling over and this is a really great view
it just looks beautiful right now.
This is actually the first day I've gone out to do some serious shooting
since the pandemic started and admittedly it's been a little
tough to stay creative.
Really today is just about having fun,
you know, stretching the legs and kind of recharge the creative energy.
We're walking down here because I found a different composition
that I think is going to look a little bit better for the freeway that's
leading into the bridge. Just trying to get this last bit of
sunset light and we're gonna do a day to night shot so
we filled this nice bag full of rocks.
This is gonna weigh down the tripod a little bit.
I think we're gonna run this day to night shot about an hour and a half.
We're gonna get the the light cascading up the skyline the
bridge lights turning on a little bit of the traffic down below
ambient light is gonna drop and the colors will shift.
We're nearing the end of sunset and even though expectations were low
given the blue sky, it was actually really pretty.
We had the entire skyline spotlit really vivid sunlight hitting it and then it
was a little darker and then the same thing happened on the
Golden Gate Bridge we'll see how all this looks.
But yeah it could be good.
So for this time lapse I'm hoping that we'll get some boats coming through,
we'll get some beautiful colors and what'll be cool is once I play back
that time lapse I'll be able to notice those little moments that I might have
seen in real time. So it's just fun, it's cool to
hang out and kind of just watch the world move.
Beautiful night tonight we were up here probably five hours.
Got a lot of stuff now we gotta hike on back
through the dark. That's a wrap. We're done.
Bye bye, stop filming.