St. Marys Lighthouse (sunset & dark)

KenCo · Jan 9, 2008

Promised myself a trip down to Whitley bay to get a few shots of this lighthouse and arrived to a lovely sunset....

And stayed until after dark.....

Got back a couple of hours ago with some canny shots imo but these are the only ones I have quickly processed.
I'll post others later if you are interested.
TFL.
Ken.

smcaskil · Jan 9, 2008

I love that night shot!

fire34fighter · Jan 9, 2008

Both are absolutely gorgeous! Great shots. What kind of post processing did you do, if any?

DeadEye · Jan 9, 2008

I like both shots, nice Job. Good use of shutter speed on both, the slight blur of waves in #1 gives a real feel to the image. Please tell about the Post Processing. Was there any artifical light in #2 ? Night shots often have so much temp change to them, these dont.

astrostu · Jan 9, 2008

Nice! I love the water ... I need to get me a nice ND filter.

Zada · Jan 9, 2008

Wow those are both very different, and both very very beautiful!! Nicely done.

p.s. what's an ND filter?

N'Kolor · Jan 9, 2008

Excellent!!!!:hail:

astrostu · Jan 9, 2008

Zada said:
p.s. what's an ND filter?

ND = Neutral Density. Basically sunglasses for your camera when your aperture can't go small. I don't know if the original poster used it, but when I've tried to get that effect with water, I never can get a long enough shutter speed even at the smallest aperture.

The Empress · Jan 9, 2008

wow, both very different and both very beautiful!!

Ronman · Jan 9, 2008

Those are truly eye catching shots. ron

Campbell · Jan 9, 2008

The first one is beautiful, the soft colors and warmth really does it for me.

The second is nice too, but I would have to say I prefer the first one. (only if I had to choose, of course)