This is the very first photo from my latest trip to Atlantic Canada. My main goal of the trip was to visit and photograph one of the most photogenic destinations in entire Canada – Prince Edward Island. But, on my way to PEI, I had a chance to visit the beautiful Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick.
The Bay of Fundy is famous for having the highest tides in the world. Even though there are plenty of amazing places to visit and to photograph around the Bay of Fundy, my favorite location by far is Grand Manan Island located in the middle of the bay. It takes a 2-hour ferry ride to get there and it is always foggy on the island in the morning.
The day I visited the Grand Manan Island the fog stayed much longer than usual and only disappeared in the afternoon, but it did not prevent me from taking some interesting shots, like this one.
Loc: 44.765328, -66.735930
Shooting & Processing
The main challenge to produce this photo was to come up with an interesting composition. Because of the tall trees and rocky shore, there are not too many spots from where you can photograph Swallowtail Light. That was pretty much the only place from where I could capture the lighthouse and the entire peninsula on which it resides.
I purposely took a wider shot to give me more freedom while experimenting with cropping in Lightroom.
I took 3 bracketed shots on a tripod (-1, 0, +1). I could see that the light was not too dynamic because the setting sun was covered with the clouds, but I took 3 brackets anyway, just in case.
I used single RAW image editing in Lightroom. I described the process here.
First I applied Lightroom preset Natural from my Landscape Collection and later I used TOOLKIT to adjust exposure mostly because the photo was a bit underexposed.
The Lightroom Preset Editing Formula: Natural ( 8, 16, 21, 31, 34)
Deconstructing Featured Photo
- Camera: Sony a6000
- Lens: Sony 16-70mm
- Focal Length: 17mm
- ISO: 100
- Aperture: F7.1
- Shutter: 1/320
- Bracketing: 3 shots (-1, 0, +1 )
- Tripod: FEISOL Tournament CT-3442
- Ballhead: FEISOL CB-40D
Processing:
Lightroom: import, tagging, Lightroom Rapid Editing, Editing Formula: Natural ( 8, 16, 21, 31, 34)
Photoshop: color correction, contrast, cleaning. I used the Stamp Tool to cover distracting elements.
Photoshop Plugins:
- Topaz DeNoise was used to reduce digital noise (sky, water).
Before & After Transformation
