In spite of the world series victory and the sunny day today!

Congratulations Giants on the world series victory!
downtown SF was absolutely insane the night of the victory. the streets were filled with horns honking people yelling, cars burning out, gridlock, drinking and much more.

 

And in spite of this beautiful sunny day this is a photo from the Richmond district on 46th between Anza and Balboa.

This is an HDR (high dynamic Range) where I combined 3 photos all the same, just taken at different exposures (1 properly exposed, one under exposed by a couple stops and one over exposed by a couple stops) and with those 3 photos i use Photomatix Pro to make the HDR. It is a bit pricy, if your paying for it I believe it's $99. Photoshop CS5 and an array of other software will make an HDR, but from reviews and personal experience I have found Photomatix Pro to be the most user friendly and best of all the HDR software

For this photo my settings were:

Exposure time: 1/2000 sec
f-stop: 4.5
ISO: 200
Filters - None