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June 1, 2018
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Something for the weekend - Part 22 - See the Light!

  • June 1, 2018
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Hi

This is Souter Lighthouse on the North East coast of England. Built in 1871, it was the first lighthouse in the world designed and built specifically to use alternating current. Its 800,000 candle power carbon arc light ran until 1914 when it was replaced by an oil lamp. It was converted again, in 1952, to run on mains electricity. It ran on until 1988 when it was decommissioned. It is now owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.

So the challenge this week is to bring the lighthouse back to life. Will you make it night and light the lamp? Will you transport it to a new location? Or will you give it a new purpose entirely?

Anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.

Anyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.

There are no prizes - just the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun.

When posting back your edited images please use jpeg and downsize to 1200px on the long side.

To download the image below without the forum scaling artefacts, right click and then use Save Image As / Save Picture As (or similar depending on your browser).

Have fun.

Dave

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    Semaphoric
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    June 3, 2018

    During the Oil Lamp era:

        

    Rob_Cullen
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    June 3, 2018

    It just needs 'Friends' in high places!

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
    Rista12
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    June 2, 2018

    Sea Level rising.

    jane-e
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    June 2, 2018

    Just beautiful, Rista!

    They had to move the lighthouse in Cape Hatteras or it would have met the same fate:

    https://www.nps.gov/caha/learn/historyculture/movingthelighthouse.htm

    Rista12
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    June 2, 2018

    Thank you, jane-e and for the link.

    I dimly remembered such a story and had it in mind, but could not remember where it had happened.

    Participant
    June 2, 2018

    That's just down the road from me! Lovely location

    davescm
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    June 2, 2018

    markyt2011  wrote

    That's just down the road from me! Lovely location

    It's not far up the road from me

    It is a pub game Jane. See how educational we get on SFTW

    Dave

    davescm
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    June 2, 2018

    It turns out that all it needed was new batteries.

    Dave

    June 1, 2018

    You were warned not to feed the birds

    jane-e
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    June 2, 2018

    Waldo!

    jane-e
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    June 2, 2018

    Merry Christmas to all and to all a Light House!

    Trevor.Dennis
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    June 1, 2018

    Quick & dirty 'Boat Jam'

    Trevor.Dennis
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    June 1, 2018

    Yum yum

    davescm
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    June 1, 2018

    The ice cream pic is very good Trevor. I love the expression !

    I also see that traffic cones are as bad in your part of the world as they are here

    I had an idea to combine the image with some quick 3D modelling. Unfortunately matching the camera viewpoint proved to be much harder than usual. That's when I remembered I had corrected the lens distortion in the original pic using lens correction and perspective warp, in order to overcome the wide angle lens distortion toward the corners and  make the lighthouse look circular again.  That correction worked well for the image but made matching it up very difficult. I'll try again later this weekend.

    Dave