Framing Your Shot
You can often get dramatically different photos by moving to a different position
From the photo above, one would conclude that the Point Wilson Lighthouse is an historic relic, a run-down, kind-of-creepy place.
On the other hand, change your point of view 90º (not coincidentally, away from the incoming (and often severe) weather), and you get a very different impression of the lighthouse:
It doesn’t look new, but it looks presentable, perhaps a little romantic with the strong reds, greens, and blues.
I always move around my subject anyway, just because I want to understand it better, but sometimes it’s critical to move around just to see what’s there.
Shot with my former Sony A7r III camera and former 16-35mm lens. Looking at these photos, I’m missing that lens quite a bit; it was really sharp, and has a bunch of useful focal lengths.
Worth noting: these are really sloppy shots, with the camera not very level and the settings not very optimal. It was cold, it was windy, and I didn’t take as much care as I normally would. Fortunately, the camera has a lot of dynamic range and detail, and the photos could be rescued with some processing in Capture One. I took these photos in 2018, and I was able to rescue them because now I have more experience with such things. Keep at it!