I'm conducting my photography tour of Michigan's Historic Lighthouses right now, and in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan the autumn colors are beautiful. This is the Grand Island East Channel Light constructed in 1868 in Munising, Michigan. The trees surrounding the abandoned lighthouse were just starting to turn color, and they weren't as dynamic as they will be in a week or so. For me, the ideal would have been brilliant color on the entire hillside. It's unusually warm here now, and the trees are peaking in some places but not others. So, to create the image I really wanted, I took a landscape shot from a previous year and cloned colorful trees onto the lighthouse shot. With two images open, you can clone from one to the other. This took me about 10 seconds. My photo tour group and I photographed the historic structure from a boat. My settings were 1/800, f/5.6, and 500 ISO, and I used a 100-400mm Canon lens set to 135mm.
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