Amphitheater Bridge Light Painting

Holy Guacamole! Forty-two people took part in light painting the bridge – crushing the previous record! Thankfully they made the 1.8 mile hike; we needed all of them and their flashlights. We had 9 light painters positioned at the top of the bridge shining their lights through the ‘peep-holes’ and more folks under the big barrel, others lighting the face and some behind the bridge lighting the icy waterfalls.

Here’s the before shot.

Amphitheater Bridge Acadia National Park

Given all the light power, my first shot was incredible bright – brighter than ever before!  I had to change the settings on the camera (or that’s what I first thought) to adjust for all the additional lights (22 new people came out for the shoot). I tried all different settings: smaller apertures, down to the smallest, f/22 and shorter exposures, a quick 3 seconds.  The results were the same – the bridge always seemed blown out.

Amphitheater Bridge Acadia National Park

Tom, who was close by, overheard my concerns and came over to assess the situation. After showing him the images and explaining the camera adjustments, he said “What about ISO?”  Oh yeah, I had adjusted the ISO earlier in the evening, before the actual shoot. I looked directly on the camera, rather than the tethered laptop and sure enough, the “ISO-Auto” was set – ignoring my manual setting. Thanks Tom, issue solved. In hindsight I laugh at the thought that I kept asking Carol to turn down the brightness setting on her “Fenix Tactical” flashlight! Here’s the image, beautifully illuminated by many light painters:

Amphitheater Bridge Light Painting Acadia National Park

 

Click on the video below, taken by Jenn Booher, to see the light painting:

 

Did I mention, 42 folks involved, including 22 new folks.

Amphitheater Bridge Light Painting Acadia National Park

Brenda baked 7 dozen Triple Chocolate Cookies for the shoot.  Apparently, as the motto goes, “If you bake the cookies – they will come!” and they came. Sean brewed up a gallon of hot apple cider for all to enjoy. And speaking of Sean, he won the raffle of the Chasm Brook Bridge print – Chris pulled the winning raffle ticket.

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