SEPTEMBER 2003 – View from Pier 39 across San Francisco Bay in California at the Oakland Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island. © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
San Francisco is an eye-feast for photographers.
I shot this image from the tip of Pier 39 at Fisherman’s Wharf across San Francisco Bay. The key attraction is clearly Oakland Bay Bridge with its never ending streams of cars and trucks driving on two levels! On the left is Yerba Buena Island, and in the back the giant Oakland International Container Terminal.
For this shot I probably used the 300 mm tele lens. You might think that I applied weird coloring to the image in post production, but no – the original slide shows a similar color shift that reduces the image to mostly blue and cyan tones, and I love it the way it is.
Design ideas
The high resolution image
| Capture Date | 03-SEP-2003 |
| Location | San Francisco, California |
| Camera | Canon AE-1 Program |
| Image Source | Fuji Slide Film |
| Digital Image Source | EPSON Perfection 4870 Photo |
| Digital Image Source Format | TIFF, 48 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 6522 x 4212 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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