3/17/2023 0 Comments Outerbanks golden hour time![]() Arriving there about two hours before sunset may afford you a chance of getting a spot for your tripod on THE ROCK down below. This lighthouse is very popular and because it is within the National Park it attracts a lot of visitors and photographers at sunset. This great little lighthouse is situated on top of a multicolored granite cliff and in the Summer the sun sets directly behind the lighthouse often producing some exquisite sunset colors when the “right” clouds are present. No trip to Maine to shoot lighthouses is complete unless you stop in Acadia National Park to shoot the Bass Harbor Lighthouse. This sunset was shot with a Canon 5D MKII with a Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 lens 1/100 sec. Remarkably, to avoid having this lighthouse, with its barber pole stripes, topple into the ocean due to erosion of the coastline it was moved 2,800 feet inland in 1999. This all brick lighthouse stands 210 feet tall and is the second tallest all brick lighthouse in the United States. ![]() We traveled south along the Atlantic Coast in late May to the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Therefore relaxation was not the goal for this photo trip. This translates into little sleep since during the summer the sun rises along the coast around 5:30 am and then sets around 8:30 pm. When shooting coastal scenes, as with any other landscape type of shooting, the golden hour (aka magic hour) is definitely the optimal time for capturing picturesque scenes. ![]() This past summer my wife, Carol, and I traveled along the East Coast from Maine to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and in our travels we shot several iconic lighthouses. ![]()
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