Tag: Travel

Bodie Island Lighthouse

A shot of the Bodie Island Lighthouse taken on the last day of a family vacation to the Outerbanks, NC. The weather was mostly overcast the whole week, and I had capture very of the shots I had planned for the week.

Of course, the weather was near perfect on the last day of the vacation. My wife was feeling sorry for me, so she didn’t complain when I asked to stop and see the lighthouse. It was quite windy. We checked in at the visitor centre and bought tickets for the very last tour of the lighthouse for that day.

Three image HDR in Photomatix Pro with the Natural preset and converted to black & white. The photographs in the earlier post has images taken from the observation deck of the lighthouse. I shot these with my Nikon on a tripod.

Dawn On the Beach

I released these two iPhone images as Creative Commons Zero (CC0) images via Unsplash.

I released these two iPhone images as Creative Commons Zero (CC0) images via Unsplash. They were both shots at Rodanthe Beach on a tripod using the Slow Shutter Cam app on my iPhone. I think a VSCO Cam filter was applied but I don't remember.

Beach, Sand, Rodanthe, North Carolina
On the Beach at Rodanthe | 3 September, 2015 iPhone 6 | iPhone 6 back camera 4.15mm ƒ/2.2 | 60s | ISO 32

Blue Sunrise at Rodanthe Pier

I find blues relaxing and that's how I felt walking along the beach early in the morning.

This is the Nikon version of one of the images I captured with my iPhone 6 and the Slow Shutter app. I like the magenta-blue sky. I find blues relaxing and that's how I felt walking along the beach early in the morning.

The images were all shot on a tripod at three exposures (-2/0/2) and combined in Photomatix Pro with the Natural preset to create an HDR.

I removed several sensor spots in Adobe Lightroom and then applied the Kodak Gold 100 Warm preset from VSCO Film 00 (grain to zero). In Photoshop, I removed the lamp poles along the pier. I simply felt that this made the image a bit cleaner. I levelled the horizon and added a post-crop vignette by setting the amount to -21, midpoint to 0, and roundness to 51.

Equipment:

  • Nikon D5100
  • Tokina 12-24 mm f/4.0
  • Manfrotto tripod
  • Hoya 0.9 ND filter