The Protector
The iconic Point of Ayre lighthouse lights up the darkness on a crystal-clear late summer night. This shot is a five-image vertical panorama captured with my Nikon 20mm 1.8 Z lens, which is an absolute beauty of a lens. The rotating beams of the lighthouse make panoramas extremely problematic to get seamless stitching between all the frames. So the only real solution is to ensure that each frame is captured at exactly the same time, thereby freezing the beams in the same positions.
The 20mm is a very wide-angle lens but still didn’t give me enough to capture the belt of the Milky Way extending high up into the pitch black above. I felt the beams of light lost their impact if the darkness of the surrounding night couldn’t be captured too, so the panorama delivered the results I was looking for. Keeping my fingers crossed for more clear nights in the days and week ahead ✨
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The Protector
The iconic Point of Ayre lighthouse lights up the darkness on a crystal-clear late summer night. This shot is a five-image vertical panorama captured with my Nikon 20mm 1.8 Z lens, which is an absolute beauty of a lens. The rotating beams of the lighthouse make panoramas extremely problematic to get seamless stitching between all the frames. So the only real solution is to ensure that each frame is captured at exactly the same time, thereby freezing the beams in the same positions.
The 20mm is a very wide-angle lens but still didn’t give me enough to capture the belt of the Milky Way extending high up into the pitch black above. I felt the beams of light lost their impact if the darkness of the surrounding night couldn’t be captured too, so the panorama delivered the results I was looking for. Keeping my fingers crossed for more clear nights in the days and week ahead ✨
Please visit my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/jamesbrewphoto
Please visit www.jamesbrew.com for my website and full Portfolio.
Follow me on Instagram @ jamesbrewphoto