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.
As we walk around whether in the neighborhood or on vacations our eyes are attracted to something and we choose to either ignore it or pick it up and carry it around before discarding.
This image from the late 1980s, predates all digital editing and what is captured, is exactly what was seen in viewfinder - there was no postproduction editing.
This image was done in late 1980s on Polaroid's instant slide film Polapan - a prefect film for beauty and boudoir photography as skin tones were rendered silky.
... a 'grab' just after I changed lens and model was no posing
Flâner - French for: to stroll, observe surroundings, and savouring the moments without any specific goal
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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.