Riding Off Into The Sunset | Beaufort, North Carolina
I admittedly don’t spend enough time hanging out in the town of Beaufort. It’s a great historic little town with a lot to see and photograph. Like a lot of places like that, it took family coming into town to get us out there and exploring. After a failed attempt to take a ferry over to Cape Lookout (unseasonable warm + off-season makes things like that a little chaotic) we decided to visit Beaufort and walk around the waterfront and see what there was to see. After checking out some great little shops, we were met with a fantastic sunset over the Beaufort Inlet.
One thing that we all were delighted to see were the huge number of migrating birds flying over head and into the sunset. It was quite a sight to behold. Further up the waterfront, I put a longer lens on and was able to get some geese flying in formation behind the tower of a Hatteras yacht. It was a great end to a memorable day with my family.
The shot: Nikon D90, 18-105 VR Nikkor @ 50mm. Singe exposure, f/11, 1/200 sec.
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Speeding By | New Bern, North Carolina
This image was taken during the same sunset as my previous post. The wind had really kicked up and I wanted to capture all the motion that was going on in the scene. I not only wanted to blur the water and clouds, but the sun too, as it quickly neared the horizon. I zoomed in to 105mm and captured a single, long exposure at f/22. After processing, I think that my favorite part of this image is not the motion that I was trying to capture initially, but the stillness and sharpness of the silhouetted trees. Amazing; sometimes you set off to specifically shoot one thing and you end up liking the absolute complete opposite better!
The shot: As I stated above, it’s a single exposure shot at f/22, ISO 200…tripod mounted and fired with my new wireless remote. Adjusted the colors slightly in Photoshop using curves, added a Pro Contrast Filter from Nik Color Efex and did a little masking. That’s about all for processing!
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