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Holiday Lights at Nubble

Holiday Lights at Nubble
York, Maine

The day after Christmas brought a snowstorm to parts of New England during the day, but not long after sunset the clouds moved out and we had a beautiful night sky with fresh new snow. This is a shot from that night at Nubble Lighthouse with the Christmas lights all ablaze.

Like almost all my night photos, this is a blend of multiple exposures to create a single exposure where the foreground and sky are both in focus and cleanly exposed, but this shot also had the challenge of dealing with the very bright Christmas lights, which overexposes all the buildings very easily, so the buildings on the island and the glow in the water right in front of the island had to be blended in from another much darker exposure.

The long exposure for the sky in this image captures many more stars than you can see with your naked eye. The abundance of stars makes it a little difficult to see constellations, but if you look closely you can find Orion near the top of the frame to the right of the lighthouse.

All exposures that make up this single image were taken on my Nikon D800E with the Nikon 14-24mm/f2.8 lens, at 14mm. The sky exposure is ISO 1600 @ f/2.8 for 20 seconds. The foreground and most of the island and water is from an exposure of ISO 800 @ f/5.6 for 4 minutes. Some of the island is from another exposure of ISO 1600 @ f/8.0 for 4 minutes. The lighthouse and other buildings on the island, and the glow on the water, are from an exposure of ISO 800 @ f/8.0 for 30 seconds. All photos were hand blended in Photoshop to create this final image. I provided no extra light in this image, the foreground is lit up entirely by the Christmas lights on the island.

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Taken on: December 26, 2013

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