Dovercourt Lighthouse | Entry for LANDSCAPE/SEASCAPE CONTEST WEEK #001

richee (53)in #landscapephotography • 6 years ago (edited)

Dovercourt Lighthouse

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Category	Seascape Minimalist
Settings	15 sec \| f/16 \| ISO 200 \| 40mm
Camera	Olympus OMD EM1 Mark 2
Lens	Olympus 12-40mm F/2.8 Pro
Location	Dovercourt, Essex, UK

This shot took me two visits, a 90 mile drive from home, so a 360 mile total round journey.

My first visit was made early morning to get there for dawn and at my arrival the tide was out and the Lighthouse was not in water, you could walk out to it without getting your feet too wet. I did wait for the tide to come in and thought I had what I needed. On closer inspection when I got home I found the light was poor as the sun was almost behind my subject, making it a little bit like a silhouette. I thought I'd be able to lift it in editing but doing that revealed too much noise and too much definition was lost.

EDIT: The above is not quite correct, on my first visit the tide was in but I did have the difficulty of silhouetting. On my arrival for my second visit the tide was out, but I arrived about midday to give me plenty of time to prepare for later when the tide and light was right for the shot. My old man memory of it all was muddled, but the EXIF data in Lightroom corrected that.

Armed with knowledge from my first visit I took a little care in planning my second visit. I checked up on tide times and knew that the light would be coming from behind me and to the right come evening time. So I timed my visit to coincide with the tide being in, the weather forecast looked good, even though it was a bitterly cold day in February, everything was set, so back I went.

I took inspiration for this shot from a photographer called Neil Burnell. Here's a link, to one of his Galleries on his website, he made me fall in love with minimalist monochrome photography. If you're like this kind of thing his work is well worth a look, I think it's stunning.

Thanks for reading

Richee

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