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At the end of the marina on the seafront at Malaga, Costa del Sol, stands this minature lighthouse.
I say minature because compared with UK lighthouses it's definately on the small side.
However, the surrounding topography and architecture is pretty flat, which helps this tower to stand out, and, as I'm a compulsive lighthouse fetishist, I just had to photograph it didn't I?
I knew when I took the photo that this would be a job for monochrome.
In my film days I would have slipped a red filter over my lens to seriously darken the blue sky and really make the white lighthouse stand out, but the same effect can now be achieved much more easily, and with much finer control, by using the monochrome function in a PhotoShop channels mixer adjustment layer.
Further dodging and burning on a couple of curves layers to locally adjust contrast and I've got an image that I'm pleased with, with the somewhat stunted lighthouse standing proud with much more visual impact than the original colour version.
Filename - malaga lighthouse 01.jpg
Camera - Nikon D3100
Lens - 18-55mm zoom @ 18mm
Exposure - 1/640sec @ f8, ISO100
Location - Malaga, Spain
This image - 596x800px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - -0.7stop exposure compensation used to preserve highlights
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