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Katawny 7 months ago

Nice work Miles !!

keller 1 year ago

Fantastic light and mood

Vadim Balakin 1 year ago

great!

Pierre Laffont 1 year ago

waou very nice

Peter Olexa 1 year ago

Great photos :) I like it
Carried in Cruzine: http://www.cruzine.com/2011/01/11/photography-light/

Matus Hrubovsky 1 year ago

nice

osman karamehmet 1 year ago

very nice..

tailerransom 1 year ago

yo, miles... what are you doing man!! post this thing on flickr, its absolutely ridiculous!!!!

mm767cap Thanks T! I'll post it eventually... just waiting for the impact of everyone else's stellar stuff from that night to die down. :)

tailerransom i just read the comments below... i'm wondering, which ISO did you originally think to use before you realized it wouldn't work with the bright light? i've seen handheld blends combining a properly exposed foreground and a separate exposure for the sky (at around ISO 3200)... which led me to believe that higher ISOs generally work better when you're working with stars. just was curious on your initial intentions.

i heard the 16-35L II is ridiculous, by the way. not sure if that's a new addition to your lens lineup or not (i know you had the 17-40L at one point). must be one of the best dSLR ultra wide angle lenses out there...

mm767cap Well, I had done some research, and it seemed to me that with a 30 sec exposure, iSO 200 or so would be about as much as this scene could handle wide open at f2.8. That ended up being pretty close. I could bump it up a little bit more, but things got really blown out at about ISO 400. My initial plan was to shoot the beam at ISO 200, and then crank it up to ISO 1600 or so for the stars, but there was just no way. At ISO 1600 the beams got totally blown out and washed out the sky. The blend would have been impossible... for me anyway. So I shot it this way and then went back in and touched up the stars. Took me a few hours. :)

PS. 30 seconds was too long. I needed to be at 20. The stars were starting to trail on me at about 24mm here.

Picked up a 16-35 a few months ago, right before my Glacier trip. Got it for the sunstar, and for the f2.8. Came in handy here. Hope you had a great semester at school!

Anelia Sirkova 1 year ago

I want to feel the spirit of that place-lantern,rocks,sea, and billions of sparkling stars:)))

mm767cap Yes, it's quite a cool event. I was very taken when they lit the lamp!!

Ivanov 1 year ago

Wowwwwwww :)))

mm767cap Thanks so much Ivanov!

Codrin Lupei 1 year ago

Beautiful image, I envy you for all those wonderful places you have there (a big part of my family is living in your town) and also the lensbaby's home... :) Wonderful one!

mm767cap Thanks so much Codrin! I've been a traveling fool this year... Things will definitely be slowing down soon. :(

Leandro Armilli 1 year ago

one of the most beautiful night picture I've ever seen...

Congratulations!!

mm767cap What a kind comment Leandro. Thanks so much!

Victor Knötzel 1 year ago

Great idea!

mm767cap Thanks Victor!

marcodelellis 1 year ago

great job :)

mm767cap Thank you very much.

Yuan Atmojo 1 year ago

beautiful image.. salam senyum -u1-

mm767cap Thanks Yuan!

jorge ibanez 1 year ago

i really like the sky nice post work

and one question...is the light coming out from the light house natural, i thought it was a constant light...but it seems to be flashing

mm767cap Thanks jorge!

It's a constant light. It's natural, in that it was actually there, but it only happens for 5 minutes a year. They stop the rotation when they fire up the old oil burning fresnel lens so it emits these beams. After 5 minutes, they start to rotate it again.

jorge ibanez wow...again, incredible shoot...congrats

Matjaz Cater 1 year ago

Looks like scenes from Walt Disney; well done!

mm767cap Thanks Matjaz. Hope you are well.

Heidi Westum 1 year ago

Very nice - great motif and a good edit :)

mm767cap Thanks Heidi! This one took me awhile, but I'm kinda slow. :)

Boedi Wiyarno 1 year ago

I only say just one word " incredible "

mm767cap Thanks so much Boedi. Very kind

barabea 1 year ago

Beautiful

mm767cap Thank you!

barabea :-)

Magda Orzel 1 year ago

wow :))))

mm767cap Thanks Magda!

Alper Koksal 1 year ago

More than excellent

mm767cap Why thank you Alper!

Ricky Siegers 1 year ago

amazing scenery!!!!

mm767cap I appreciate it Ricky.

Carl Bostek 1 year ago

Beautiful.... And so fortunate that the night was clear and moonless!

mm767cap Indeed! Thanks Carl. I was really hoping for clear skies. I've seen this shot in the fog, and it looks cool, but I really wanted some stars as well.

Carola Onkamo 1 year ago

Fantastic!

mm767cap Thanks so much Carola

Chankaya Wable 1 year ago

is this a HDR image?

mm767cap In a way, but not the tradition sense. I used one exposure for the lighthouse and sky, but a different exposure for the water and foreground, as the image correctly exposed for the sky rendered the entire landscape black and the water really noisy as it was underexposed.

Chankaya Wable 1 year ago

simply *BRILLIANT* !

mm767cap Hey thanks so much! I really appreciate it!

Alberto Feltrin 1 year ago

simply ravishing! u got the moment..great planning and final result!

mm767cap I really appreciate it Alberto! I tried to have a plan in place before the 5 minutes started, but it went out the window pretty fast. :)

Alberto Feltrin yes, it's always like that :D

Dennis Bautista 1 year ago

simply spectacular!!!

mm767cap Why thank you Dennis!

Slavomir M. 1 year ago

superb

mm767cap Thanks as always Slavomir!

Radoslav Iliev 1 year ago

that is simply amazing! I read your comments below ... maybe you could have done a second one with higher ISO so the stars would come up brighter. Then blend those in PS ... just an idea from a beginner :) .. cheers

mm767cap Thanks for the thoughts Radoslav! I actually DID try that, and have several shots at high ISO. The stars stand out much better, but the blend is impossible around the light beams. That was my first thought for a solution as well, but I just couldn't make it work.

Radoslav Iliev haven't thought of that ... but many thanks for the clarification :) ... I saw your portfolio and your work is great, keep going!
cheers

mm767cap Hey thanks! That is really kind of you Radoslav!

elson 1 year ago

amazing

mm767cap Thanks elson!

Fadi Tarawneh 1 year ago

very nice, are the stars real???

mm767cap Thanks Fadi! They are real, but they did require going in with Photoshop and touching them up. In order to keep the light from totally blowing out I had to shoot at ISO 200, which didn't allow the stars to be as bright as I wanted

Ashraf Saleh 1 year ago

Spectacular radiance from this scene brilliantly captured.
Well done.

mm767cap Thank you for such a thoughtful comment Ashraf

Cristian Rusu 1 year ago

excellent

mm767cap Why thank you Cristian

Ratko Nedovic 1 year ago

Superb.

mm767cap I appreciate it Ratko. Thanks

Kusoglu Ali 1 year ago

Excellent

mm767cap Thanks!

Colmar Wocke 1 year ago

Superb - brings back memories of my childhood holidays at the seaside where there was also a lighthouse.

But, your picture is simply wonderful and deservedly a favourite of mine on its own merits!

mm767cap Why thanks Colmar! I certainly do appreciate it. I'd love to have some old childhood memories of lighthouses, but growing up landlocked, I don't. Hopefully these recent ones will stay with me for awhile now. :)

mordenkainen 1 year ago

magical!!!

mm767cap Thank you so much

martin zalba 1 year ago

fantastic!

mm767cap Thanks Martin

LilleG 1 year ago

Gorgeous shot! But I do wish you had leveled it before posting.

mm767cap Thanks Lille. I'll try to replace with an improvement.

Selcuk Dalgic 1 year ago

bravo amazing

mm767cap Thanks very much Selcuk

Jose Luis Cunha 1 year ago

Amazing!!!!

mm767cap Thank you!

Robert 1 year ago

That is just great! Well done exposure! Robert

mm767cap Thanks Robert! Most kind of you

Sandi Mufti 1 year ago

it's just awesome...

mm767cap Thanks Sandi!

Jan Vojtek 1 year ago

Miles this is sooooo beautiful!

mm767cap Hey thanks Jan! I really appreciate it

ludy(lujianxing) 1 year ago

that's really crazy picture...

mm767cap It was a crazy event! I was thankful for the clear skies to get some stars

Anjas Setiady 1 year ago

excellent......

mm767cap Thanks Anjas!

Lazar Octavian 1 year ago

Truly stunning, just can't take my eyes of the screen.
hat tip.

mm767cap What a kind comment. Thanks so much.

Leon 1 year ago

Really incredible. The ligue is superb

mm767cap Thanks Leon. It was a very cool spectacle to witness

Vlad Dumitrescu 1 year ago

amazing....
BRAVO!

mm767cap I appreciate it Vlad!

Predrag Djurdjev 1 year ago

How long exposures ? Great picture

mm767cap Hi Predgrag. This is 30 sec, ISO 200, wide open at f2.8. I still had to go in and touch up the stars a bit, but if I let any more light in for the stars, the lighthouse totally blew out. 30 seconds was slightly too long. If you look at this large enough on the master file, the stars were just starting to trail. Should have gone no more than 25 s.

mm767cap Oopsy. Just noticed that I listed this image as ISO 320. This particular frame was shot at ISO 200. Sorry for the confusion

Mauro Mendula 1 year ago

Optime!!!

mm767cap Thanks!

Wesley Law 1 year ago

Thats amazing.

mm767cap Thanks Wesley!

John Parminter 1 year ago

quite spectacular, its just a shame they didn't build it vertical........ ;-))

JP

mm767cap ARGH!!!!! If you look at it long enough it starts to straighten out. :) It was SERIOUSLY distorted in cam, and I thought I had fixed it but... Thanks for the heads up! I've got it fixed now on the Master file. :)

Jerry Berry You can always upload an "Improved" version.
Nicely done BTW. The night I was there was a bit foggy a few years back.

mm767cap Thanks Jerry. I did indeed upload an improved version, so hopefully that fixes it soon!

I saw some images from the foggy year... the beams were BLAZING that night!

John Parminter No problem, I was only pulling your leg......

JP

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