Yaquina Head Lighthouse – Newport, Oregon – Derek Helt
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Yaquina Head Lighthouse - Newport, Oregon – Derek Helt
This is a great example of HDR (High Dynamic Range) technique used to bring out the artistic quality of the image. To some purist this isn’t subtle enough, but to us it is just great eye catching photography. The Yaquina Head Lighthouse was built in 1872 and reaches a height of 93 feet making it Oregon’s tallest lighthouse. Please read Derek’s story below and then visit his website http://brightcloudyday.wordpress.com/. for some more beautiful images from Newport, Oregon one of which we featured here “The Bridge to Nowhere”.
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This is a photo of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport, OR, USA. It was an absolutely beautiful winter day here, with the temperature reaching 57 degrees F. I went out to the lighthouse about an hour before sunset. This image is a 3-shot HDR. I used my trusty Pentax K-30 with a Sigma 18-70mm lens on it. Aperture: f8. ISO: 200, exposure varied due to it being a 3-image composite. I used Adobe Lightroom and HDR Efex Pro 2 to process it.
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Love this image. As a total amateur I am uncertain how you would have created this three-image composite – is it on the camera or with photo-shopping? If it is with the camera, I guess it would be a function of only some cameras?
Two things keep me far from the ‘purist’ camp when it comes to the HDR approach: 1–I’m no scientist, but I know from experience that the eye (and brain) can still adjust far more rapidly than the most sophisticated camera equipment as one scans the scene, so we tend to perceive images more densely and keenly than an ordinary one-shot photo can do without adjusting the *product*; 2–there’s a big difference for me between strictly a documentarian and an artist/storyteller. I think that minimal post-production might be preferable for some documentary purposes, but we all know that photography as Truth is still limited, since it shows us only what the photographer chooses to show, including the cropping, the angle, the focus, the lighting, etc, to the degree that we must decide every time what we’re really seeing (or not seeing).
All of that aside, Yaquina Head is a lovely lighthouse and locale, and Mr. Helt gave us a gorgeous and painterly view of it! Cheers!
I have a passion for lighthouses … this is just wonderful – love the colors and the depth in the sky and ground. Just love it.
peaceful….
Thnis is a lovely photo! Breathtaking!
Good “presence” and balance in this shot.
Beautiful!
Soothing.
Lovely! The lighting and the sky really stand out.