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Originally Posted by tturedraider
Very cool!!! What time did it start and end? Obviously y’all went from night to day.
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The goal was to let everyone enjoy magic hour and take photos, then night photos with the twinkling downtown lights across the bay. It officially started at 6pm, an hour before sunset, but I showed up just after 4pm. By 6 the wait was an hour long. By 7 I think they were starting to turn people away at the gate and have everyone else park and walk in. I stayed past 10 because the line to get out was long as well with everyone filtering out. The first 100 of us got validated parking, but I think everyone else had to pay the standard rate, which contributed to the long wait to get in and out. Par for the course at this location, as it was the same for the Japanese Classic Car Show I went to a few years ago at the same location, albeit during the day.
Around sunset, the Formula Drift cars came in, engines roaring, underglow lit, and everyone got close and personal to take photos and admire the cars. There was a DJ, vendors, and several food trucks contributing to the festivities. Larry Chen's blue R34 was there, as well as his Supra camera car. He was mingling with the crowd, passing out stickers and taking pics himself. I ran into him several times and he seemed cool.
As the crowd started thinning out around 9:30, it became easier to take some of these night shots, especially with a longer lens. Initially I was trying to avoid people and cars crossing the shot, but after seeing the cool light trails they produced with my long exposures, some of those shots became my favorites. The first shot of my M2 G87 is a good example of this, as well as the NSX.