Barnegat Portrait
Barnegat Lighthouse, guarding Barnegat Inlet, where Barnegat Bay accesses the Atlantic, located in Barnegat Light State Park, in the borough of Barnegat Light, ...
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Barnegat Lighthouse, guarding Barnegat Inlet, where Barnegat Bay accesses the Atlantic, located in Barnegat Light State Park, in the borough of Barnegat Light, at the northern tip of Long Beach Island, at the New Jersey Shore. Across the inlet is Sedge Island in the Sedge Islands Wildlife Management Area, on the southern tip of the Barnegat Peninsula.
(Whew!, a lots of Barnegats"…).
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(Whew!, a lots of Barnegats"…).
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Location
This is Barnegat Light. it guards the south side of Barnegat Inlet at the north end of Long Beach Island on the Jersey Shore. It's located within the bounds of Barnegat Light State Park, and has pretty easy access. Parking is usually convenient, especially if you go early or late in the day (or off season) when the beach goers aren't so abundant...Time
I had spent a couple hours wandering and shooting around the light and the jetty walkway along the shore. At the end of the sunset, after the light was lit I found a nice vantage point from the picnic area on the bay side of the island tip. There were a few people around, so I had to be patient...Lighting
The light was usual late summer clear day, with a couple small clouds in the distance. As I shot after the sun set, the last remnant of pink sunlight still shown on one of the distant clouds for a nice effect. I always prefer to shoot early or late for better light. Very seldom (if there's a choice) do I shoot midday lighthouses...Equipment
I use Nikons. Here my D200 with a 12-24 wide angle zoom. On my Gitzo carbon fiber tripod (I've ruined a couple metal tripods in salt water in my reckless past…).Inspiration
There's really no story here – It's simple: I love lighthouses! (see my other images!…). There's several ways I like to shoot them: 1) portrait (where the light IS the image – or at least the main focal point of the image); 2) (what I call) 'environmental, where the light is seen with more of it's natural environment: and 3) where the light is only one element of a wider (beautiful / 'fine art-y') landscape. And sometimes there are hybrids too...Editing
Here the exposure was bit dark, so I lightened, and evened out (mostly using Shadows/Highlights in Photoshop. Actually over-lightened bit and punched up color bit too. I did remove couple people (most were blurry because of long exposure), but left couple kids on breakwater to give scale.In my camera bag
My normal bag has my Nikon D200 with a few zoom lenses, and filters. I have been a Nikon fan since college, when I rented one in 1968 (first time using an SLR) to do a school project – shot 20 rolls of film and every single slide came out perfect!… The F2 was my favorite film camera for many years. Now a D810 is on the horizon… Full frame and more info on the file is always the way to go.Feedback
Be there. And be patient...
