Photo Wednesday: Bandon Lighthouse
This week’s Photo Wednesday’s image is of the Bandon, Oregon Lighthouse from 2015. This was another trip where I simply felt worn out, and scheduled some time off to unplug and relax. It is another slow shutter image, as the water should make clear. I will note for the record that the colors of the sunset have been somewhat enhanced. Okay, really enhanced, it was a cloudless bright day where there was very little actual visible color by eye, but what you see in this image is just an enhanced version of what was actually there. While I’m not generally a huge fan of massive manipulation of an image (but, to be honest, if I’m massively manipulating the look of water with a 10 stop ND filter on the lens, why is that okay, when bringing out the color in Lightroom isn’t?), I love this image.
And this image has a story from the Art Wolfe photo retreat, too. When we were taking a break during critique a few of us were chatting and sharing notes, and I had this photo up on the ipad as we were chatting. Art walked by, and got about a step past us, stopped, backed up, took a closer look, and said “wow, that’s good. Where is that?” so we chatted about the location, and I spent the rest of the day with a huge grin on my face for some reason… This is an image I love enough that it sits over the big TV in the family room…
Gear notes: Fuji X-T1, 18-135MM at 83mm. 25 seconds at F/16, ISO 100.
