Sutro Baths & Cliff House HDR

Sutro Baths and Bird Crap

Sutro Baths & Cliff House HDR
Sutro Baths & Cliff House HDR

The Bay Area Night Photo group met recently at Sutro Baths in San Francisco. Once upon a time the place was magnificent, now it’s just a pile of decaying concrete.

Glorious Sutro Baths
Glorious Sutro Baths

 

Which makes it perfect for setting fire to!

Sutro Baths Irony Spin
Sutro Baths Irony Spin

One day I’ll show you how we make these fireworks. In the meanwhile I’m sure a smart person like you can type “wire wool spin” in to the youtubes. The real reason we went was to try and capture a strange glowing rock that sits just off the coast. The rock is eerily white and quite apart from the other formations.

Sutro Baths Poop Rock Vertical
Sutro Baths Poop Rock

I’m sure from all this talk of poop and crap you’ve worked out why. Here’s another shot I took while I was there, ending in a lesson on how HDR can ruin a nice image.

Sutro Baths Poop Rock
Sutro Baths Poop Rock

I love HDR photography, in the right setting it can be truly marvelous. The scene below should have been such a scene. There was tonnes of dynamic range, lots of coloured light being thrown around. Everything a young HDR enthusiast wants. I’ve said in the past this blog would show the pictures that failed, well this is such a time. Don’t make your pictures look like this. It’s just embarrassing

Sutro Baths Over-Done HDR
Sutro Baths Over-Done HDR

 

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