Posts in Category: lighthouse
1/4/2009
Sanibel Light
This is a second view of the Sanibel Lighthouse against the New Year’s Day sunrise. For this I zoomed in enough to isolate the light, but keep significant sky. The sky behind the light, being well away from the sun, was not as spectacular, but still colorful. Exposure for the sky, metered in Programed Auto Wilde Matrix setting normally, since the sky dominated the image anyway, and I was willing to let the lighthouse go black. A pretty straightforward image.
Sony DSC H50 at about 400mm equivalent. F4.5 @ 1/200 @ ISO 100. Programed Auto.
Recovery in Lightroom for the sky, added Clarity and Vibrance (Vibrance picked up some orange in the sky), and used the Sharpen Landscapes preset. Cropped some water out. Originally I put the horizon at the 1/3 line…moved the horizon lower and let the light itself have the power point.
The image is from the Sanibel and Everglades Gallery.
12/9/2008
Nubble Light: Cape Neddick ME
Nubble Light is one of the most popular tourist attractions in southern Maine. On a sunny day in the summer, you often have to circle the small parking lot for 30 minutes or more to catch a space open, and you have to work really hard to get a shot of the light, on its own little island off-shore, without people in the foreground.
That is why I worked my way down to the very edge of the channel that separated Cape Neddick from the Nubble.
It was an all but perfect day. A few big white puffy clouds behind the light would have been nice, but I was happy with the really amazing waves chasing each other up the channel and crashing against the rocks with huge gouts of spray.
I took 100s of shots, trying to capture a wave at it’s most photogenic, against the lighthouse and its rock as backdrop. Persistence almost always pays off. It did here.
Sony DSC H9. F5.6 @ 1/800 @ ISO 100. Programed Auto. Full wide angle (31mm equiv.) on the zoom.
In Lightroom, I applied some Recovery to bring out detail in the white mass of the wave, and to darken the sky. Added Clarity and Vibrance (which made the blue sky deeper and the red building really pop), and used the Sharpen Landscape preset.
With a subject like this, and such a day, it is then just a matter of timing (and a willingness to scramble around on exposed rock that trembles with every smashing wave).
It is from the Around Home Gallery.