Historic Portland Head Light is one of the prime New England Lighthouses
located on beautiful Cape Elizabeth in Maine. The headlight always
makes for a great lighthouse photography subject at any time of the day,
365 days a year. The other week we visited family in Portland Maine and
had a blast visiting the PMA where we discovered the beautiful paintings and art by Mildred Giddings Burrage.
On a side trip between lunch and dinner I stopped by the
lighthouse to try out my new neutral density filter. I was hoping the up
to 8 stop ND filter would slow down the shutter speed and allow for
some silky water photography during mid afternoon. The filter did not
disappoint and I achieved 1 to 4 second exposure times at a sunny to
partly cloudy day. Setting a small aperture (large f-stop setting)
maximized Depth of Field
and a desired slow shutter speed. Equipped with my tripod I composed
the image to feature the rocky shoreline below the lighthouse and have
most lighthouse buildings within the picture. At ISO100, an aperture of
f/22 and in combination with the neutral density filter resulted in an Exposure
time of 2.5 seconds. During post processing I removed dust spots,
minimally adjusted contrast, lighting and color saturation before
sharpening the image.
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