I'm currently working on doing an entire lighthouse series in this style that I'm calling The Long Watch. There are several others in my Fstoppers portfolio if you are interested. I haven't been able to take any new shots of the NC lighthouses but I have plenty of older photos that I am revisiting to edit in this kind of style.
These photos were taken just outside of a small town in central Portugal.
Client came and needed headshots immediately. Set up a single Broncolor Para 133 in the dining room. Delivered 20 pics. Setup, Shoot, Edit and delivered within 30 minutes.
Here are a couple long exposure shots using my original 50 year old Minolta SR-T201 and kit lens shooting Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 II. Both images were taken just at the end of blue hour.
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Hi Kyle! I don't know if it's just the perspective of your extreme wide angle lens, but this image looks unsettling to me, as the lighthouse looks far away, while it looks as if it's falling backwards as we are looking up at its top at a very steep angle.
Were the clouds in the original? The whole thing looks to me a bit cartoonish, or cut-&-paste - which of course is a perfectly legitmate artistic vision, but would seem to be a departure from, say, your recent dreamlike surreal images, or indeed your work generally as I recall. I don't feel as if I can enter this curious space.
Hey Chris. I originally fixed the perspective but the lighthouse looked weird to me so I ended up just leaving it. The clouds were not in the original. I wanted to do something different with this one. All the others have been some sort of long exposure.
I still think it looks kind of dreamlike. Maybe not as surreal. It's just different from the other ones I have done. I think that's what I like about it.