Wedding & Honeymoon – The City from The Bay

EDIT:  should have included the photo data for both of these shots – see below each for details.

As images on the blog are limited to 500 pixels wide I thought I’s share some of the cropping capabilities of the Canon 50D and the 70 – 200 F4.0 L IS lens (yes, this post is a bit photo-geeky, but I am sure all will enjoy the images). Using the The City pictures from the above post I pulled some tight crops.

First was the Image of the TransAmerica building (that’s the  pointy one!) and cropped for the waterfront area, which turns out to be Pier 45:

EDIT – Canon 50D/70-200 F4 IS at 100mm, F5.0, ISO 640, 1/250th of a second – hand-held on a boat.

 

With a tight crop (not quite 100%) I was able to see that I had an image that included the Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien (Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II):

More info here.  The image also included the USS Pampanito (SS-383), which is a World War II Balao class Fleet submarine museum and memorial, also at Pier 45:

More info here.

The image of the Coit Tower/Telegraph Hill area seemed to have quite a few interesting residences that probably sport quite the view of both The Bay and The City:

EDIT – Canon 50D/70-200 F4 IS at 173mm, F8.0, ISO 640, 1/125th of a second – hand-held on a boat.

 

An almost 100% crop of homes near the left edge, a little less than halfway up the hill:

A 100% crop of homes further up the hill,  with the trees in the background:

A quick search confirms this is another San Francisco ‘high rent’ district (though notice three of the properties on just the first page have had recent 6-figure price drops!)!

I am obviously very happy with this zoom lens – and with the 15 mp resolution of the 50D a lot detail emerges!  I was able to get perspectives of The City at angles one can only get from the water, and was able to learn a little more about what I was seeing after the fact!  What fun!

Next up, a look at what we saw in the Fishermans Wharf area and the uber-cool 5 hour guided tour we did with “Dylan’s City Tours” (which both Michelle and I were so impressed with)! And to think we were only in San Francisco for about 30 hours.