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Photographer’s Choice – Mike Acquesta

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Moonlight Reflection in Upstate New York

Mike Acquesta - Seneca Lake Moonlight

Mike Acquesta - Seneca Lake Moonlight

Mike grew up in the Finger Lakes region of NY State. In the early morning of Oct 11, 2011, while vacationing in the area, he captured the above scene from the east side of Seneca Lake. He describes it as follows:

I positioned the camera so that the moon light reflection on the lake cut directly between the two docks. The reflection points to the opposite shore and towards the moon. The moon did a wonderful job of under lighting the clouds. When first looking at the picture, one immediately notices the bright streak of light extending up at an angle. As the eye passes through the portal created by the decks, I think you start noticing other aspects of the shot, including the deck silhouettes, the suspended boat, then the opposite shore. Finally the moon comes into view with the bottom lit clouds. I applied a minor touch-up in Camera Raw – exposure boosted ever so slightly, and that was it.

His camera was a Canon 40D set on manual exposure with a Canon EF-S 10-22mm wide-angle zoom lens, set at 22mm, aperture f/4.5, shutter 25 seconds, tripod mounted.

Photographer’s Choice – Nicole Robinson

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Looking for a Shot, Finding Another

Nicole Robinson - Point Bonita Lighthouse

Nicole Robinson - Point Bonita Lighthouse

Nicole was looking for a vantage point to photograph the Golden Gate Bridge and stumbled on this scene of the Point Bonita Lighthouse in the Marin Headlands, just north of San Francisco. Hoping for something unique and to properly convey the scene, she set up her tripod and opted for the very long exposure of 20 seconds which allowed the ocean waves to appear more like wispy fog than moving water. This softness provides a strong contrast between the soft spray and the rugged, prominent rock formations. Because the light was far too intense to use this slow shutter speed without blowing out the scene, she attached an 8x neutral density filter which brought the effective shutter down to about 1/13 second. Using an aperture setting of f/11, the total light reaching the sensor was controlled.
Her camera is the Canon EOS 50d with the excellent EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM lens. For this scene, the lens was zoomed to 125mm. The final image is certainly an excellent capture.