Cadillac Mountain Sunset (HDR)
Image # 1D2_06890-93
Cadillac Mountain
Canon 28-70L/f2.8 @ 33mm
ISO 200, f/11, 1/40, 1/20, 1/10, 1/5 second
Manual Exposure
Gitzo 1329/Arca Swiss B1/Wimberley Sidekick
Any trip to Bar Harbor, Maine needs to include either a sunrise or sunset on Cadillac Mountain, the first place in the U.S. to see the rising sun. I haven't done much experimentation with "HDR" (High Dynamic Range) photography, where several images are taken with different exposure settings, and later combined in Photoshop to achieve a much wider tonal range than can be achieved with any single exposure. As shown above, I used 4 exposures, each 1 stop apart, to create this photograph. I didn't want to create an 'artificial' looking image, which is easily done if the settings are too aggressive, but tried to recreate the scene as I recalled it in my mind's eye.