Down in Old Chinatown
San Francisco, CA
05-06-2022
Processed: 06/29/23
I continue to be amazed at the images I may remember well when taking them (or forget taking them altogether) and then "stumble" across them when looking over "old photo folders" in my archives (which are meticulously filed by time and place.)
I arrived in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco by bus from my hotel at around 8:30 am to specifically photograph Broadway where the old Condor Theater stands. This was where the XXX rated clubs were in the 1970s and I wanted to photograph the area. I ended up walking up Broadway toward Chinatown, and then walked Grant Street all the way through to California Street, where I took a cable car all the way to Fisherman's Wharf.
This is a highly processed telephoto shot taken at 87mm with my kit lens, then sharpened and filtered in Photoshop and Aurora HDR. Photomatix Pro, as usual, combined the three exposures for the HDR. I would say this is pretty much where Chinatown "begins" (on Grant Street anyway, which is the "Main Street" of the neighborhood.)
Because it was early in the morning, there weren't a lot of folks walking up and down the street, and very little traffic as well. And I'm amazed that in over a year I've never processed nor presented any of the photos I took of the area (except for one shot of the Condor Club and one of the Zoetrope Cafe which aren't in Chinatown) till now.
Down in Old Chinatown
San Francisco, CA
05-06-2022
Processed: 06/29/23
I continue to be amazed at the images I may remember well when taking them (or forget taking them altogether) and then "stumble" across them when looking over "old photo folders" in my archives (which are meticulously filed by time and place.)
I arrived in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco by bus from my hotel at around 8:30 am to specifically photograph Broadway where the old Condor Theater stands. This was where the XXX rated clubs were in the 1970s and I wanted to photograph the area. I ended up walking up Broadway toward Chinatown, and then walked Grant Street all the way through to California Street, where I took a cable car all the way to Fisherman's Wharf.
This is a highly processed telephoto shot taken at 87mm with my kit lens, then sharpened and filtered in Photoshop and Aurora HDR. Photomatix Pro, as usual, combined the three exposures for the HDR. I would say this is pretty much where Chinatown "begins" (on Grant Street anyway, which is the "Main Street" of the neighborhood.)
Because it was early in the morning, there weren't a lot of folks walking up and down the street, and very little traffic as well. And I'm amazed that in over a year I've never processed nor presented any of the photos I took of the area (except for one shot of the Condor Club and one of the Zoetrope Cafe which aren't in Chinatown) till now.