Thursday Night - San Francisco

[Photo-John]

Ladies and Gentlement - start warming up your tripods!

This is the week for our little SF night photo outing. We're gonna do it on Thursday night. We'll go to Twin Peaks, Treasure Island, and at least one other spot. We need to agree on a time and place to meet. I'd like to meet somewhere for dinner where parking isn't a big deal. Maybe we should pick someplace that's not right in the middle of the City? South City, Brisbane, Daly City or Potrero Hill? What time do you guys want to meet and who has ideas for a good place to meet?

If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's a link to the original discussion about a night shoot in SF: SF Night Photography?

This is gonna be cool!

[racingpinarello]

Hey John,

I think there should be a plan in case of fog. Twin Peaks gets nasty in the evening if there is fog. Soup City.

I hope that one of the locations is urban like North Beach or Filmore, etc. I have some emails to friends in the city of some cool places to photograph at night.

For dinner there is a place in South San Francisco on Grand Ave. which is close to the freeway with parking. Villa Del Sol. It's super cheap and meat.

I'm interested...
Loren

[cr_mmurillo]

A nice meeting place would be Stones Town Mall in San Francisco, by UCSF.

Mall Info
http://www.shopstonestown.com/html/MallInfo.asp

[Mr Yuck]

A friend and I will be there from Petaluma. Lookin forward to it...it'll be my first time driving in the city, much less with a standard transmission....

[aquadog]

Just saw this post...but if you guys are going to be out and about in SF on Thursday night...it's the Dia de los Muertos parade in the Mission, at 24th and Bryant that night! There will prob be a lot of cool stuff to shoot there!!!

[Photo-John]

A friend and I will be there from Petaluma. Lookin forward to it...it'll be my first time driving in the city, much less with a standard transmission....

Hmmm, I'll be sure to stay in front of you at stop signs on the hills

[racingpinarello]

Right off the BART lines too!! This sounds good plus the Mission District is my favorite neighborhood.

Loren

[Mr Yuck]

Hmmm, I'll be sure to stay in front of you at stop signs on the hills

No worries, I have a handbrake :thumbsup:

[Photo-John]

I think Loren's suggestion to meet in South San Francisco is the best. Parking won't be a problem and I'm gonna need to eat. So we'll meet at 8 PM at Villa Del Sol Argentinian restaurant. Here's a map and the address: http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?Pyt=...r:regT:1:fbT:0

If anyone has a problem with this, let us know. We can change the time, but I think this is probably as good a place as any to meet. I don't want to have to try to park in San Francisco, unless it's at one of our photo spots.

[Photo-John]

Going to a parade in the Mission sort of changes the whole intent of this trip. For one, it's gonna be difficult to get in and out. Two, I was planning to do slow, landscape shots. Three, I'm not too psyched about packing my camera gear around the Mission at night.

[racingpinarello]

Makes sense... slow is good since I will be bringing my LF equipment.

Loren

[racingpinarello]

Hey John,

Since it gets dark earlier, is it possible to make dinner around 7 p.m.? I will probably only have time to make dinner and one of the spots.

Should be fun!!

Loren

[Photo-John]

Since it gets dark earlier, is it possible to make dinner around 7 p.m.? I will probably only have time to make dinner and one of the spots.

Sure. I was trying to avoid traffic into the City. But 7 is fine with me.

[cr_mmurillo]

Seven works fine for me too.

[cr_mmurillo]

Looks like it's going to be raining on thursday.

http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?we...ns=wc:USCA0987

[walterick]

Here's a sticky till Thursday you crazy Bay Area cats!

[Mr Yuck]

I'm so glad I have a laptop GPS receiver! Hopefully I'll see ya'll thursday.

[Photo-John]

Do we want to go if it's raining or shall we postpone until next week? Rain could be good or it could be terrible.

[cr_mmurillo]

I am new to photography, so I don't really know what extra equipment we need for the rain. I know John you mention that cameras are generally OK in the rain so I'll go if it doesn't rain too hard. I just bring a plastic bag to go around the camera or something.

[Mr Yuck]

It's san francisco.

It's november.

It's now or never.

I'll be heading to the city regardless of whether or not we do this.

[cr_mmurillo]

The weather looks crapy today. Not sure about tonight though.

[Photo-John]

I'll be there! As long as it's not pouring it should be fine for photos. And if it's pouring, at least we can eat and maybe figure something else out. Plus, part of being a good photographer is being flexible and dealing with conditions. Sometimes things don't go as planned. It's important to figure out how to take good pictures no matter what happens. And that's what we'll do!

[cr_mmurillo]

I'll be there!!!

[photo101]

*cry* I missed it.