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The late-afternoon light at the Point Cabrillo lighthouse

The late-afternoon light at the Point Cabrillo lighthouse

From the course: Travel Photography: Seaside Road Trip

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The late-afternoon light at the Point Cabrillo lighthouse

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So, this is been really fun, we came out hear and the sun was high up in the sky, the light house was backlit. So, we had to kind of deal with that, find the right angle had some wonderful models to work with, kind of threw in a personal touch to the whole thing. Probably the most fun was seeing is little kid Max do cartwheels around the light station. (SOUND) First, he did it one cartwheel and I shot it and I thought, well, wait a minute, let me try a few more. (SOUND) so, he then started doing multiple cartwheels, and I realized, you know, this would be fun. (SOUND) We could do a little kind of, kind of an animation sequence of him going around the light station doing cartwheels. So, I got enough shutter speed to stop the motion, you know, I think it was like 500th of a second or something like that. But I was shooting a wide angle lens so it's not as critical, the shutter speed, with a wide angle lens as it would have been if I was using a telephoto. But it was definitely fast…

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