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4 images, four different era's of the same lighthouse...that was the aim.

So the first query is, thoughts on the processing - I am sure every photographer goes thru some phase and this might just be one for me, but I was trying to mix it up a bit and push the boundaries, even just a smidgen..

Secondly, composition, does it match the processing? does it match a photo era?

comments? thoughts? abuse? - i'll take it all

free freddo to any lighthouse nut who can identify this one.

I'm not a lighthouse nut but it looks like Leeuwin to me. I haven't been up it but have seen it from the opposite view, across the ridge in the background of the first shot.

I concur: definitely Leeuwin.

In the first one you've definitely gone for "an old era". The (lack of) colour, the grain, 4:5 aspect ratio, etc.
But as for the others: what about them indicates particular eras to you?

I took the same view as the first one when I was photographing Australian lighthouses in 1987, except that I used a fisheye lense. No particular changes since then except no people on the road in mine. (The lighthouses were still manned then and probably no visitors).

1st one looks quite 1920s.

3rd one perhaps somewhat retro ?70s.

I can't place the others. Which era were you thinking of?

Nice composition in the last one btw. Obviously heights don't worry you.

The lighthouse itself and the cottages are from the 1890s. There were very few major lighthouses built in the 20th century.

I'm not a lighthouse nut but it looks like Leeuwin to me

lucky ur in WA, or else I would have to cough up my freddo for ya The more I look at it the more I realise its a pretty distinguishable lighthouse. doh.

what about them indicates particular eras to you

thats kinda my question Quite frankly i would not know, however at a guess I would say the first is 1930's and the remaining 1960s or 1970s

No particular changes since then except no people on the road in mine. (The lighthouses were still manned then and probably no visitors)

probably won't change for awhile too, still got a dude 'manning' it too.

surenj wrote:Nice composition in the last one btw. Obviously heights don't worry you.

lol...not too much

biggerry wrote:

No particular changes since then except no people on the road in mine. (The lighthouses were still manned then and probably no visitors)

probably won't change for awhile too, still got a dude 'manning' it too.

Yeah but he won't be a Lighthouse Keeper though, probably a Ranger. The last Australian lighthouse keeper was in the early 90s at Maatsuyker Is off the Southwest Cape of Tasmania and that was only because the local fishermen insisted on it for a while. All the lights have been automated since the late 80s or earlier, and large ships haven't needed them for decades due to radar and other electronic stuff. When the weather is dark and foggy and stormy and you need the lights most, you can see them the least.

Murray Foote wrote:Yeah but he won't be a Lighthouse Keeper though, probably a Ranger

ok. The dude lives in teh cottage (seen in the first picture) and looks after the lighthouse and runs the tours - that rates as being 'manned' for me

I thought it was the lighthouse on the Newtown coast line?

The first one is very 1920/30s - I just reckon you should have manned up and taken the photo over the rail.

I like the others.

Reschsmooth wrote:I just reckon you should have manned up and taken the photo over the rail.

I would have...but my fatass would not fit out the little door - apparently people were smaller back then

Can't say which era for which photo but for me, the 3rd one is the weaker out of the lot. The other 3 have more interesting compositions and look and feel to them.

I like only the last one. The others do nothing for me.