We spent several hours on two different days photographing Red-tailed Tropicbirds and Laysan Albatross at the Kīlauea Point Lighthouse. The lighthouse itself is quite charming but with my 300mm lens and the 1.4x teleconverter, I couldn’t get anything but extreme detail closeups of the lighthouse. When we stopped on the way back to the hotel late Friday afternoon, quite a different view of the lighthouse presented itself. Instead of the D5, I used the D850 and because we were pretty far away, I still wanted to use a long lens so I used the 300mm without the teleconverter. I took this shot just as a sunbeam stabbed though the clouds and hit the white lighthouse, bringing it to life.
[…] got to thinking about the photograph of the Kilauea Lighthouse that I posted here a couple of weeks ago after my return from Kauai. The light was great but the photograph fell […]