Photo Interlude: Marblehead Lighthouse

September 22, 2009 By John E. Riutta in Born Again Bird Watcher Archive, Uncategorized Tags: erie, G10, lake, lakeside, lighthouse, Marblehead, midwest, ohio, park, photo, Photography, state, symposium

As I’m still rather road-weary from my recent attendance at the Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio, my “recombobulation” process is going a bit slowly. Among other normal post-expeditionary activities, I’m sorting through the photos I recorded during my travels – among which I found a nice series taken of the Marblehead Lighthouse at Marblehead Lighthouse State Park, Marblehead, Ohio. As there was a group of people in the process of setting up a wedding ceremony at its base, I was limited by both propriety and aesthetics to photographing only the uppermost part of the lighthouse; in retrospect not a bad limitation as the red and white of the lighthouse crown against the bright blue sky made for a very clean and iconic image.

Equipment:

Canon PowerShot G10

Settings:

F-stop: f/4

Exposure time: 1/600 sec.

ISO speed: ISO-80

Exposure bias: -1/3 step

John E. Riutta

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