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Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in Maine.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum within Fort Williams Park.
Construction began in 1787 at the directive of George Washington, and was completed on January 10, 1791, using a fund of $1,500, established by him. Whale oil lamps were originally used for illumination. In 1855, following formation of the Lighthouse Board, a fourth-order Fresnel lens was installed; that lens was replaced by a second-order Fresnel lens, which was replaced later by an aerobeacon in 1958. That lens was updated with a DCB-224 aerobeacon in 1991 (Wikipedia.)
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Captured in: Cape Elizabeth, ME
Seen here is an early morning capture of one of my favorite lighthouses -- the Portland Head Light. This image was captured just shortly after sunrise in Portland Harbor.
The Portland Head Light was built in 1791, and was the first lighthouse constructed in Maine.
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"Good Morning Portland" is a blended exposure image that was assembled from 3 bracketed shots, with a differential of 1 stop between images. The blended exposure process is a bit different than traditional HDR, as it brings together the bracket images not with HDR software, but rather using luminosity masks instead. The intent is to create a more natural looking final image, and still pull great detail from both the shadows and highlights.
The resulting HDR image was processed using a combination of ACR and Photoshop (includes the use of Topaz Labs plugins -- Adjust, Clean, Denoise, Glow, and Impression).