Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
There was a recent Fstoppers article on how to create these "fine art" black and white architectural images. I have linked the article here: https://fstoppers.com/architecture/transform-your-architectural-photos-f...
I decided to try this technique on some of my older lighthouse photos from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This is the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.
To create this image I used a photo I shot at 12mm right around sunset. I cropped the image quite a bit. In retrospect I should have shot closer to the lighthouse. Anyway, I used the pen tool in photoshop to meticulously select the parts of the photo I wanted to keep. In this case, just the lighthouse and the fence and some of the ground. After getting that selection I changed the "background" or "sky" to a solid color layer using black as the color.
Then I used a linear gradient tool and dragged it across the image to give the illusion of light coming from the right side of the frame.
I then used another photo with a long exposure sky I took and added this long exposure sky to the image. The long exposure sky was originally taken in landscape orientation. I flipped it 90 degrees and transformed it so it would look like the clouds are coming from the right. After I had my sky in place I used several different curve layers to do some selective dodging and burning. And that's basically it with some further global adjustments in Lightroom. If you're interested in this I highly recommend watching the video as it explains the technique much better than I just did.
This is a fun technique to experiment with and I plan on using it some more on some of my older images.
Edit: IDK what happened to the article but here's a link to Fred's youtube video on the process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFr32WOQtTo
Beautiful
Thank you!