Straitsmouth Island Lighthouse in HDR

Posted on January 20, 2012 by avatar

The Straitsmouth Island Lighthouse

Straitsmouth Island Lighthouse in hdr with seagull flying over the lighthouse

Straitsmouth Island Lighthouse in hdr

This lighthouse is closed to the public and maintained as a bird sanctuary by the MA Audubon society.  It’s best seen from a boat as you pass into Rockport harbor. I took this shot on Labor Day weekend and the waves were breaking high due to the approach of a hurricane coming up the coast.

My numbers were 75mm with a relatively slow shutter speed of 1/250th of a sec. my ISO was 100 and fstop was 9.0.

Considering I shot this at 11:45AM the light was pretty harsh. I took this into NIK’s HDR EFX and tone mapped it. Tone Mapping is when you have HDR software work on a single image. Normally to do HDR, you want 3 to 9 images for the software to sample.

I simply liked the painterly quality of the image, I would love to know what you think. Tone map or not?  Below is the straight shot from the camera.

Straitsmouth Island Lighthouse seagull flying over the lighthouse

Straitsmouth Island Lighthouse

Photos by Jeff Folger

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2 Responses to Straitsmouth Island Lighthouse in HDR

  1. David says:
    January 23, 2012 at 04:51

    I like the straight shot better. Maybe because it suggests a fresh, cool breeze more than the other one. But they both have their merits.

    • Jeff Foliage says:
      February 1, 2012 at 12:48

      Thanks David. I love playing with my photos to see what other feelings they can bring out. Sometimes I realize that they just were not going to get any better than straight from the camera and some of them look much better when they have been played with.