October 3, 2012

My Vacation—Part 9


I thought I would finish-off my vacation photos with three lighthouses.  The first photo is of the lighthouse at Cape Elizabeth which is just outside of Portland.  I walked around the lighthouse for several minutes before I selected this location to take the photo.
There was a lot of contrast in the scene so I decided that an HDR image would be needed.  Playing around with my cameras spot metering, I decided that I would be able to shoot three shots and get the dynamic range of the image.  I wanted the photo to look very realistic so I was very light on the HDR controls.
Enjoy.
Camera settings:  Nikon D4, 28-300mm f/3.5~5.6 with at 28mm, ISO 200, f/16 at 1/350th,180th and 90th of a seconds on a tripod.
Post Processing:  
Lightroom 4—applied Landscape preset during import and exported three exposures to nik HDR2 where I combined the photos into an HDR exposure.

4 comments:

  1. Looks like a photo that one might see in a travel magazine. Like the colors.
    Tim

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  2. Reminds me of a photo on a travel calender. Nice job.
    Troy

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  3. I am surprised that you did not take this at sunrise or sunset. It would have made a much more interesting shot.
    Sid

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  4. peaceful looking. colors are great. wished it were my pix.
    Neally

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