The Golden Gate Bridge park

And the third film roll of my trip to San Francisco

In the last post about my trip to San Francisco, I commented about the wrong decision of loading a tungsten-based film stock to make daylight shots, and I ended the post saying I changed films right when it was time to photograph the Golden Gate Bridge. Here's the comparison:

Tungsten-based film on the left. Daylight-based on the right.

I feel that the one on the right has better colors for a landscape photoshoot during the day, but looking at the one on the left, I think that the green and cold color grading really brings a cinematic style.

Here's the post, where I say that film photographers should need at least two cameras, to load them with different ISO film stocks.

When I saw the bridge in front of me, I tried to avoid the obvious landscape shot that everybody does, which is a photo of the bridge itself. I tried a creative approach, like the one with a skateboarder where I had to lay on the ground to capture at an angle that would remove people behind the bench he was sitting on. You can see my legs in it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

I must confess that sometimes I miss the convenience of having an LCD screen to look at, and make these bolder compositions.

There were lots of fisherman on the deck, trying their luck at the sea, while I tried mine at the lens.

And I eventually got it! One of the photos above got featured in a Fine Art Print post, about the fisherman and her big fish, with the bridge on the background!

Not so much to share, rather than shots from the bridge alone.

And that's it! There's not too much taken from this one. I kinda took so many similar shots in this roll, a bad habit I developed from shooting digital, where clicking doesn't cost money…

Here's the contact sheet. See? Not very good. Lesson learned — do not take the same shots of the same subjects when shooting film.

Lesson learned. The next roll will be better!