{"id":2482,"date":"2011-12-30T06:56:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2011-12-30T06:56:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T11:56:23","slug":"12302011-cape-porpoise-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"12\/30\/2011: Cape Porpoise Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After my fruitless search for a Snowy Owl at East Point yesterday (see previous post), I continued down the coast with, as they say, one eye pealed for anything white on the rocks of Fortune\u2019s Beach. Nothing. The amazing clouds were still happening though, so when I got to Cape Porpoise I swung out to the fishing peer that overlooks the harbor and the Light. As I got out of the car, the sun broke through and spotlighted the little island with the Lighthouse under the dark sky. I had just time to grab a couple of shots before the clouds moved and it went back into shadow. <\/p>\n

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These two, at 285 and 100mm equivalent fields of view, catch the effect well. <\/p>\n

Though the sun was pretty much obscured by the cloud mass, I was shooting into the sun, as you can see in this full harbor shot at 24mm equivalent. This was a tricky exposure and required some work with the Graduated Filter effect in Lightroom to balance the foreground and the sky. <\/p>\n

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1) f5 @ 1\/400th @ ISO 100. 2) f4.5 @ 1\/640th @ ISO 100. 3) f5 @ 1\/1250th @ ISO 250. Program with iContrast and \u20131\/3EV exposure compensation.<\/p>\n

Processed in Lightroom for Intensity and Sharpness. Some tampering with the color temperature was needed, as well as cropping on the second shot for composition. <\/p>\n

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