This past weekend my sister-in-law and her husband came in from Illinois and she and Evelyn when for a quilting retreat. That left Bill and I to wonder around and take pictures for the weekend. The first plan was to take Saturday and go to Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek but it rained most of Saturday. It did clear up, but it was a wash for the most part. We did get a bunch of Photoshop/Lightroom talk done though.
Friday night we were able to go to Holland MI and get some really nice images of the lighthouse and the sunset. The sunset was very nice but the lighthouse is what became the main event.
As the sun went down the lights in the lighthouse came alive. Now I'm not talking about the rotating light but the lights in the lighthouse as if someone was home. In the twenty four years I have been in West Michigan, I did not know the lighthouse had illumination within the structure. It is a very nice touch photographically.
The above image is the result of a three shot High Dynamic Range across three stops of exposure. I had not used the new HDR Pro function in CS5 so it was time for a test drive. Initially the combined image is a little flat but that's what the rest of Photoshop is for. Curves will go to great lengths to give the HDR depths and separation.
The moon was an absolute bonus for the night as when we left the house it was very cloudy and we left on a whim that it might be clear at the coast. What we were treated with was just spectacular. I must give full disclosure here in that the moon was in fact above the lighthouse but it was much smaller. I took an image of the moon at 320mm and placed it in the image to give a better relation to the lighthouse. Cheating? Slightly... Not realistic? Very much so, but that is what photography is about. This is what I saw when looking at the lighthouse.
That will wrap it up for me today.
Take care... Doug
As the sun went down the lights in the lighthouse came alive. Now I'm not talking about the rotating light but the lights in the lighthouse as if someone was home. In the twenty four years I have been in West Michigan, I did not know the lighthouse had illumination within the structure. It is a very nice touch photographically.
The above image is the result of a three shot High Dynamic Range across three stops of exposure. I had not used the new HDR Pro function in CS5 so it was time for a test drive. Initially the combined image is a little flat but that's what the rest of Photoshop is for. Curves will go to great lengths to give the HDR depths and separation.
The moon was an absolute bonus for the night as when we left the house it was very cloudy and we left on a whim that it might be clear at the coast. What we were treated with was just spectacular. I must give full disclosure here in that the moon was in fact above the lighthouse but it was much smaller. I took an image of the moon at 320mm and placed it in the image to give a better relation to the lighthouse. Cheating? Slightly... Not realistic? Very much so, but that is what photography is about. This is what I saw when looking at the lighthouse.
That will wrap it up for me today.
Take care... Doug
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