Jul 16 2008
Disappointment ? I don’t think so …
While visiting Northern Oregon and Washington State last month, I was able to capture several lighthouses along the way.
Lewis and Clark may have been disappointed, but we were not. Despite the rumors, the weather during the time we were in Oregon was perfect.
Across the Columbia river from Astoria is Cape Disappointment, Washington.
In 1788 an English Captain named John Meares missed finding the Columbia river and named the nearby headland Cape Disappointment.
These images are renderings of the Cape Disappointment Light at the head of the Columbia River. In 1848 a lighthouse was recommended to be built at Cape Disappointment. Built at a cost of $53,000 the first lighthouse in the Pacific Northwest was completed and operational in 1856.
The base image was a merging of several virgin RAW exposures combined into an HDR image using Photomatix Pro and then tone mapped and saved as TIFF for further adjustments in Lightroom.
The first rendering is “normal” development of that TIFF file with Adobe Lightroom ….
and the second rendering is a virtual copy of the first with some added effects applied …
As always, your comments are welcomed and appreciated.
Thanks !
Very nice. I like the post-processed version a lot, although I am not always a fan of this look, it really works in this particular image. I am heading to the Oregon coast for a week tomorrow morning, so you have ensipired me!
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