Yaquina Head Lighthouse

This photoshoot was the first real projects with film that I published. I had spent a few months in isolation acquainting myself with my old Minolta SRT 102 Camera, fresh from being tuned up by Blue Moon Camera in Portland, Oregon. After a few test projects comparing film and digital shots from both my cameras, I set out on this photoshoot as my first real film dedicated project. I decided to use Cinestill 800 film for this shoot after testing it out for some other low-light situations. This made the lighthouse lamp look red in the final photos rather than the blue-white LED color that it really is. The first image is a behind the scenes photo of this journey, taken with my cell phone showing off my vantage point for a wide angle shot of the lighthouse.

A behind the scenes shot showing my camera on its tripod with the lighthouse scene in the foreground.
A close up shot of the top of the Yaquina Lighthouse with star trails in the background.
This image was an attempt at a longer exposure time than I had ever done at this point. It ended up being a 15min shot, which produced some crisp star trails behind the lighthouse during a break in the stormclouds. This lighhouse is also known as the Cape Foulweather Lighthouse, and was first lit in 1873. At somepoint in its long life it was converted to LED bulbs, which combined with the Cinestill 800 film produced a red glow instead of its typical white glow. This lighhouse still uses its original Fixed Fresnel lens from 1868 to broadcast its precesnce along the coast.

EXIF:
Camera: Minolta SRT102
Film: Cinestill 800T @ 800 ASA
Shot: 15m @ f5.6, Minolta 58mm 1:14 Lens
A wide angle view of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport, Oregon with an aproaching storm behind it.
This wide angle shot came early on in the shoot, and shows the aproaching storm clouds moving south down the Oregon coast. I was lucky enough to get some time shooting in between bursts of rain. My shoot was cut a little short from a big burst that caused me to pack up all my equipment in order to protect it from the rain. The full moon that night made shooting this location go very smooth and gave me lot's of leeway to experiment.

EXIF:
Camera: Minolta SRT102
Film: Cinestill 800T @ 800 ASA
Shot: 2m, 30s @ f2.8, Minolta 58mm 1:14 Lens
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