photo - Ken Gilbert

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Todd McVey, 51, Advertising Art Director,
Jersey City, NJ
“This shot was half planned and half happy accident. I
was on vacation in Cape May, NJ, last July, and found this
lighthouse while exploring the beach. I knew I had to
shoot it— just didn’t know what I wanted it to look like.
Then the idea of a composite came to me. I captured
just the lighthouse one day, shooting close-ups and
from a distance to cover enough angles to choose from.
Then I went back the next day at roughly the same time
to photograph the seagulls. The sun wasn’t as much of
a difficulty as you would expect—framing it behind the
lighthouse, I bracketed all my shots so I knew I would
get the look I wanted. The main problem was the mosquitos.
They were pretty terrible, so I had to work fast. I
think I lost about a pint of blood on this shoot.”
tech specs: Canon EoS 5D Mark II, with Canon 35mm f/2.8
(lighthouse) and 70–200mm f/4 (seagulls) lenses. Exposures,
1/125 sec at f/11, ISo 100. Composited in adobe photoshop CS4.
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