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I had always admired Milky Way/Lighthouse images I had seen online so this past weekend when we came across the beautiful Point Cabrillo Lighthouse, I knew I had to shoot it.. We had a few obstacles to overcome so @mattcookii &I headed there Saturday afternoon after a stop at Glass Beach to check it out.We lucked out; they allow tours of the tower of the light house 8 times a year &that afternoon happened to be one of them. In taking the tour we learned that every lighthouse has a unique signature, or light pattern that allows them to be recognizable at sea; this lighthouse’s signature info would come in handy later. We took some photos, explored around andthen went to set up camp at Russian Gulch nearby.
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We came back to the lighthouse at sunset;we made sure to park along the street &not within the parking lot because the area closed at sunset. We knew the MW would be up soon after sunset so we figured we would try &stick around until we got kicked out. I wandered down on the rocks about 1/4 mile away from the lighthouse &shot until after the sun went down then waited a little bit longer for dusk to start settling in before heading to the spot I wanted to shoot the lighthouse from.
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It was then I learned that this was going to be harder than originally thought. The lighthouse signature was 10 seconds. My normal MW shot at 2500 ISO is 25-30 seconds. Every time the light came around &hit my lens, it completely blew out the photo. I had to quickly adapt to shoot at 10,000 ISO &time my shots perfectly to be 4 seconds on, 6 seconds off. I shot my foreground .6 seconds at 6400 iso, f2.8 across the board. I tried shooting closer to the lighthouse after I took these shots but there was no hope even w/ that timing- shots were blown out.
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I took off to the car using the 10 second sweep to light my way. Like in a horror movie, I kept seeing a figure in the grass to my right and had to wait each 10 seconds to try &catch a glimpse of it. It was a deer standing vigilantly in the grasses not moving. Creepy!
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ISO 10000
F2.8
4seconds
9 images stacked for sky, 4 for foreground for NR in SLS
Processed in LR & PS
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