Golden Hour Light at Raven’s Nest

Acadia National Park, Winter Harbor, Maine

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Oct. 6, 2021, 5:30 PM — This off-the-radar location might be one of the most gorgeous places in all of Maine. Located on the Schoodic Peninsula in the far less visited part of Acadia National Park, Raven’s Nest is one of the park’s best-kept secrets. Park rangers will not reveal the exact location, apparently in an attempt to keep traffic down in the area. There are only about four parking places at the pull-off for the location.
While the entirety of the Schoodic Area is gorgeous, we loved this harder-to-find location near Schoodic Point. This photograph proved to be one of the most difficult wall murals I have ever attempted to process and stitch. Stitching the land was the easy part. The difficult part was the ocean because there were many images containing nothing but water, giving the stitching software few reference points to work with. Finally, I noticed that hundreds of lobster and crab pot buoys were scattered across the ocean surface. I was able to use those buoys as reference points to complete the stitching.

Make sure to check out my “Blue Hour at Raven’s Nest” photo in my night photography gallery.

This panorama was photographed with a Canon R5 and Canon 200mm lens at 200mm, f/11, 1/160 sec., ISO 200. The original panorama consisted of 760 individual focus-bracketed photographs. These were processed into 96 focus-stacked images and then stitched together to create the final image.

The original image is:

• 2.29 gigapixels
• 63,895 × 35,802 pixels
• 213.0″ × 119.3″ at 300 PPI
• Approximately 1.78:1 aspect ratio
• Available as fine art prints, plaque mounts, aluminum prints and PlexiPlaq.
• Wall murals up to approximately 17 ft 9 in × 9 ft 11 in at 300 PPI, or 35 ft 6 in × 19 ft 11 in at 150 PPI.
• This image can be cropped to your desired dimensions.

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