I was out on the ferry dock on Drummond to get some shots of the Saginaw taking on a load of limestone at the dock. I missed blue hour, but I didn't want to waste the opportunity, so I started banging off frames...
Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200 VR @ 105mm, 3sec, f5.6, ISO 100
But you can only take so many shots of an object that isn't moving and is in constant light, so I decided to try shooting DeTour village, about a mile away across the river.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200 VR @ 22mm, 120sec, f3.8, ISO 100
In that shot you can look & see a small streak of light in front of the town, that's the ferry coming back over to the island. I thought it might be cool to get a long shot of that boat with it's bright searchlights streaking across the frame, so I set up for another exposure with the same settings and just kinda 'winged it'.. And this is what I got.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200 VR @ 105mm, 120sec, f3.8, ISO 100
While that was definitely the highlight of the night, I liked this one too. This is a super long exposure looking north - northwest up the river. I wanted to see what it would look like to get the various blinking AToN lights in the frame. The subtle lighting you see on the underside of the clouds is the light from Sault Ste. Marie, which is roughly 43 miles away as the crow flies. Of course to my naked eye that light was not visible, so I was really surprised when I saw it on the LCD. There was very little trace of remaining sunlight here, the sun was probably 45-80 degrees from here when it set. You may also notice star trails in the sky, this is the first time I've gotten this in an image.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200 VR @ 18mm, 267sec, f5.6, ISO 100
This is yet another example of leaving your mind open when you go out to shoot, there'll always be other subjects to photograph if you think to look for them.
