Rainy Night

I shot this image with my Nikon D70 digital SLR camera from inside my car sitting facing west on Gellert in the middle of the street (late in the evening with no traffic coming up from behind me) just past the corner of Callan. This is on top of a hill at the south west corner of the Serramonte shopping center. My camera lens is set at 70mm which is zoomed in pretty tight, looking at the street in front of me. What you see are the street and car lights reflected on the wet street. The exposure time is half a second, with the f stop set at 4.5, which allows in a lot of light (the lower the f stop, the greater amount of light that comes through the lens opening). The camera didn't record the film speed rating (this is the sensitivity to light) and neither did I, but I think this was set at around 200 or 250. The lower the film spped, the lower sensitivity to light but the less amount of grain. This image was cropped into a square composition, brightened and sharpened a bit, but there is no other manipulation of the image. It's a beautiful image on a rainy night in Daly City.