Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Grand Haven and Holland 2-16-09

Despite the bitter cold temps, I had a strong urge to get out and shoot yesterday. I'm really glad I did too. My main mission for the day was to continue where I left off with my D40, experimenting with HDR. So I set my new D90 to bracket exposure.

I started at around 4 o clock in the afternoon at Holland State Park. I took lots of pictures of the lighthouse but sadly none of them turned out to my standards. The sky was too dark and cloudy. I need to get out there sometime at sunset and I'm sure the pics would turn out much better. Here's one of the exposure blends that I came up with. This was created from 3 different photos, one overexposed, one underexposed, and one even exposed.

holland lighthouse
(Holland Lighthouse)

When I was done in Holland I jumped on US-31 and headed North to Grand Haven. Usually I am all alone when I am shooting over there but on this night there were several other photographers that showed up. I met a very nice guy named John Dykstra, www.johndykstraphotography.com. I took probably about 100 pictures and I only liked a few of them, which is typical for me. So here they are. I will start with my favorite.

grand haven lighthouse
(Grand Haven Lighthouse)

grand haven lighthouse
(Grand Haven Lighthouse)

grand haven lighthouse
(Grand Haven Lighthouse)

grand haven lighthouse
(Grand Haven Lighthouse)