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It’s been awhile since I posted in the landscape forum, but I wanted to share these two images I captured last month.
These were taken on a Friday - a Friday I wasn’t really planning to go anywhere. I was messing around on my computer when I saw a recent photo of this particular lighthouse taken only a couple days earlier. Since the weather had been below freezing the entire time, and this was an image I had wanted for awhile now, I decided to drop everything and take the three hour drive and see what would happen.
As it turned out, the ice was still intact. I was amazingly lucky with both shots.
In the first, the cloud you see was VERY transitory. It only looked like that for a few minutes and it happened just as the light became perfect! I couldn’t believe my luck - quite a few photographers had shown up and I had staked out a spot at the far right. No way to move once the light got good, but had I been over just a few feet to the right I wouldn’t have captured the cloud in its entirety. (A foot to the left I’d have been swimming!)
For the night shot, a small group of us went back. I stayed a little later and was lucky enough that all the clouds cleared. The lighthouse illuminated the area perfectly.
Both images are single shots - no photoshop trickery or fancy blends. Comments welcome and appreciated. Thanks!
Man, what a cool looking lighthouse! Love all that ice hanging. #1 is my favorite, and it looks like the perfect positioning to capture that one cloud. This one is going to win you some awards!
#2 is pretty cool too with the stars. The stars look awesome and the shot isvery nice. I think I would tone down the light a bit more on the lower left, and I hate to say it but I think you should have done a little Photoshop trickery to tone down the actual light at the top of the lighthouse a bit more my eyes are begging for just a little more detail up there.
Talk about a picture is worth a thousand words . . . love them both! Regrettably the clouds in first pic almost seem too good to be true - well sometimes good happens! As for the 2nd shot I'm wondering what a two shot blend would have looked like if (not sure if it would) taking a shot at f/16 would allow light rays to stream from the light house? BTW I love your YouTube videos!
Dave
As for the 2nd shot I'm wondering what a two shot blend would have looked like if (not sure if it would) taking a shot at f/16 would allow light rays to stream from the light house? BTW I love your YouTube videos!