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Today’s photo is another shot from our earlier trip to the San Francisco Bay area. This shot was taken at the Marin headlands from a viewpoint high above the golden gate bridge. Earlier that day we had been on a sunset hike and decided just to drive up and see if we could get a parking spot at one of the few outlook points along this very busy road. I had taken the sunset shots and the blue hour trails earlier, so I was not thinking of a shoot here when we drove up. But the blue hour was not completely gone, and the place was empty, so I managed to get a couple of nice shots with some amazing light trains on the roads that lead to the bridge.
Technically taking light trails is easy but it’s a bit demanding on the gear side. This is the kind of shot that would require the quality of the trip and lens. A tripod is necessary to get a long enough exposure to get good complete lines of light trails and since image mainly consists of bright pointed sources of light at the corners it will truly test the abilities of the lens. Another thing to consider is the aperture setting, while it's tempting to set the slowest aperture to get a long shutter speed, my advice would be to go no less than f16 to avoid effects diffraction as they would be exaggerated by the subject of the image.