South Stack Lighthouse

Lighthouse #27

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Another day, another view of South Stack lighthouse on the island of Anglesey off the North Wales coast.

This show was taken just before sunset, from within a crumbling WW2 lookout post perched high on the cliff above the lighthouse.

What attracted me to this view was the framing of the lighthouse within the opening in the decaying lookout post.

I especially liked the way the last of the sun's rays were picking out detail on one side of the collapsed window in gold, while leaving the other side in darkness, and I emphasised this contrast difference during the creation of the final image in Photoshop.

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Image data

Filename - lighthouse 27.jpg

Camera - Canon 350D

Lens - 18-55mm zoom @ 50mm

Exposure - 1/13sec @ f16, ISO400

Location - South Stack, Anglesey

This image - 640x800px JPEG

Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2

Comments - Tripod, mirror lockup and self timer used to prevent camera movement.